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Mr. Troy Ford, Michael Steele, Caroline Osella (they/them), Dana DuBois, Dan Pal, WYATT! Out LoudEssays, stories & curiosities | Home of the novel "Lamb" - "The Books We ❤️ Club" - and "The Road to Published" - the choose-your-own-adventure approach to writing and publishing books
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It’s been a while since I read Andrew Sean Greer’s Less, and the details have gotten a bit muddled (or middled, as you will read below). It’s a deceptively easy read (I’m told), it’s funny (they say), and a lighter-hearted rumination on agi...
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Troy Ford: Being Bold & Bodacious With “Waterspout!”
Special thanks to fellow author Wyatt O’Brian Evans for hosting me on his popular podcast ! Wyatt is a consummate interviewer—interested, engaged, and funny as hell—...
Why I ❤️ Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way"
I’ve been an admirer of Julia Cameron’s work for quite some time, even used The Artist’s Way to try and bust through my decades-long writer’s block when it was still in its infancy mid-90s. Though it took me another 20 years to finally writ...
The Mad Stylings of Dusty "Double-D" Davenport
Waterspout, my second novel, releases tomorrow, July 14th—Bastille Day, as it happens—I didn’t plan that specifically, the “storming” part was a fortuitous coincidence. Vive la révolution of queer literature!
There’s one last chance to pre...
Waterspout | Prologue
Current writing advice suggests that prologues are out, out, out.
They’re often exposition in the hands of newer writers—lots of telling, and not a lot of showing, i.e., unforgiveable.
Prologues delay the action, and woe betide th...
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Award-disdaining Author, Exile & Kook \ud83d\udc9c\ud83c\udfa9\ud83d\udc08⬛ Books with a side of self-publishing chaos and life’s ridiculous little moments (FKB) | Shining a light on the amazing queer writers of Substack (Qstack) | The Pink Sheep Novels: Lamb and Waterspout
Michael Steele is a full-time teacher and part-time writer in California.
Rewilded Anthropologist. Ex academic anthropologist in UK. Now a freelance writer. Big WIP is a (you guessed) campus novel. On Campus is issue-based but character-driven. Stay with me through 2026 to hear more. Excerpts on Substack (for now).
Memoirist & cultural essayist. GenX word nerd. I write out loud. Co-host & booker: The Daily Whatever Show. Fine feminist. Loves storytelling, karaoke, ectomorphs, her two teens, and Oxford commas. Loathes the RHCP.
Dan Pal has been a Film Professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Film Critic, Director, Screenwriter, Festival Programmer & memoir writer. He writes about film, television, and music at https://danpal.substack.com/
Wyatt O'Brian Evans is that Quintessential Renaissance Guy: Author, Journalist, Podcaster, and Intimate Partner Abuse Specialist. The new novel, "Nothing Can Tear Us Apart--RUTHLESS!", is available on Amazon. “Speaking My Mind Loudly And Proudly!”
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