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Friday Fantasy for July 18!

Top o' the morning, all! As always, I hope this post finds you doing well. My summer has been full, but not of writing, unfortunately. We've had family and friends visiting, there's been playdates and swimming lessons, and a full slate of odds and ends.

No Way Home

The woods sounded unnaturally quiet. Off in the distance, a lone owl’s sad cries echoed among the trees, the haunting voice made even more so by virtue of the silence. Every few heartbeats, the owl would cry again, and Orochi would feel the irrational trembling in his heart. He

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June Roundup

Top o’ the morning all! As always, I hope this finds you doing well. As per usual, time is a myth, and I’m never quite sure where it’s gone. My calendar says that we’re halfway through 2025 (and a quarter of the way through the 21st century!

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Friday Fantasy For June 20, 2025

Top o' the morning, all. As always, I hope this email finds you doing well. The Kirk household has fallen quickly into the joys and tribulations of summer, and it's been a pleasure. Thunderstorms roar across the sky. The heat and humidity build until you feel like

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May Roundup

It’s my understanding that May has 31 days most years, but it seemed to me that the 2025 edition was short by a few weeks. It felt closer to about 12 days to me, and I’m not entirely sure where the missing time went. May is a month

Release Day!

Top o’ the morning all! As always, I hope this finds you doing well. If I had some sort of magic button that granted health, wealth, and happiness, I’d press it for each and every one of you. I’ll keep this short today, as I’ve been talking

7 Days till takeoff!

Top o’ the morning, all! As always, I hope this email finds you doing well. I’m enjoying the last few weeks of relative peace and quiet around the house before the absolute chaos of summer rears its head. I’m hard at work on Fallen Swords 4, hoping to

On Consistency

I was at the gym this morning and decided that instead of my usual diet of pushups, I'd test my bench press to see where it was sitting. I switched my routines a few months back, changing from heavy lifting of a single muscle group each day of

The Bookshelf Begins

Like many readers I know, I feel as though I’m always short of bookshelf space. So, to deal with my problem, I decided I was going to build myself a new one that fits the space in my office that’s open for it. I’m not really a

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Announcing Of Blood and Broken Dreams

Top o’ the morning all, I hope this finds you doing well. In these parts, spring has sprung. Trees and flowers are blooming, and the sweet scent of lilacs fills our backyard. It’s light now when I wake up at five to go to the gym, and the daylight

Today, Life is Good

My original intent today had been to write a little bit about the economics of incentives and how they affect storytelling, and how I think independent artists are our greatest hope for a creative future. Someday, I might still write on that. But the sky is clear and blue. A

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April 25 Review

Top of the morning, all! I hope this finds you doing well. Going to try (again) a return to blogging, and I figured it wouldn’t be a bad way to start by diving into a bit of a review of the month of April. The month was a bit

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