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I’m elbow deep in some edits for This Happy Wreck this week. As a result, I don’t have the time or focus to write a new substack post. So, I’m sharing a re-run. This is a post I originally wrote in the spring of 2024 when I...
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“The Book was Better...”
My sophomore year of college, I had a really cool internship at the Smithsonian. Twice a week, I metroed down to the National Mall and entered an unassuming pavilion that marks the gateway into the Smithsonian’s “secret tunnels.” The only m...
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Hey Writers,
I can’t believe it, but there’s only one more day left of WorldShift 2026: The Speculative Fiction Writers’ Conference.
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I’ve loved seeing email after email from writers sharing the breakthr...
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