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!
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
Genesis World "Genesis World" is available here for one week free. You are welcome to purchase it to keep at any time here: Genesis WorldNexus Genesis #1 Hope burns low as humanity is hunted across the stars. Adrienne and the crew of the small scout ship Infinity are on a
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
Featured 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
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
The Mandalorian and Intertextuality This past weekend my wife and I finished watching The Mandalorian. Overall, my wife really enjoyed it while my own reaction was pretty lukewarm. I enjoyed some parts, was impressed by the quality of the production, and was grateful for a new original story set in the Star Wars universe.
