An Open Letter to the Under 30s
And a few who are older. You do not remember September 11, 2001. You don’t live with the horror of watching people jump to their deaths to escape the burning inside the towers. Nor do you live with the trauma of what a few violent fundamentalist Muslims did that day. This is unfortunate because all…
A New Year’s Reboot: A Reading List for 2025 and the (Tentative) Publishing Schedule
Note: All the pictures in this post are my work, taken of books from my collection. Any cover images are the property of their respective publishers, especially any pertaining to J. R. R. Tolkien. The written content is 100% human generated without the aid of any AI or robot to help me compose. I took…
Sometimes You Just Have to Break the Rules
How I Started a Substack to Promote a New Genre When you decide you’re going to write a book, one thing you don’t expect is the morass of picking a genre and meeting the “expectations” for that genre. When I began Vindico, the only thing I knew for certain was I wanted to write something…
Romance is More Than Genre but We Aren’t Treating It That Way
I finished the first draft of Vindico in the final hours of 2023. It’s a work that began just as short character sketches starting in 2017 and finally taking shape in late 2020. What I didn’t know, however, was the genre I wanted it to be. That answer came too. I knew I wanted something worthy of…
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I am a life-long bibliophile. This blog began as an attempt to ket my love of great literature out into the world. After my own experience with classic literature and mental health, I wanted to give others the same opportunity to find that one piece of literature that gives them hope. When I’m not blogging, I’m writing great content for businesses, parenting a very rowdy Quaker parrot, knitting, and serving my faith community.
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