Just finished another pass through on Oasis, the bonus story I'm putting with Queen of Bones. Once I get the okay from my editor, I'll be able to put them out on Kindle sometime in the next month! Next up is the novella, which has been sitting on my plate for nearly three years. It's …
Happy Christmas!
Time for the new year! I'm sure I had some writing resolutions last year, but I don't remember what they were. I think something crazy like submit 100 stories, or something. If you hadn't noticed, I haven't been submitting many stories anymore. I got so tired of the long wait, that I pretty much will …
Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
I listened to this recently on Audible, and it was not what I expected. Though this is marketed as a sci-fi, the setting is really more of a medieval/fantasy type world. The prose is also very dramatic, dark and flowery, which seems more fit to a fantasy novel. The main character being a torturer who …
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North
I just finished reading this, and though it was very clever, and a fresh idea and extremely well written with beautiful prose, identifiable characters and vivid emotions and exciting action, it was also incredibly irritating. It is another iteration of the timeless story of the villain trying to accomplish something, and the hero trying to …
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Week 15 and VALIS(and The Divine Invasion)
This week I wrote about someone resurrected in a future society where death has been outlawed. I don't like it and didn't really know where I was going with it, so I've broken my streak of good stories. I finished something though! I also read VALIS by Phillip K. Dick. It's about a man who …
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Jonas David 