🚀The Dark Age: Exiting the doldrums
🚀The Dark Age: Exiting the doldrums Hello, friend. I have not been writing. It’s strange how much it sucks to say that so plainly. It’s true, however. Until...
You are enough
Hi, friends! Every so often—I’m sure you can relate—our lives enter a season of setback. Maybe it starts with one thing; maybe it’s only one thing. Maybe it...
🚀The Dark Age: An unknown and solitary sea
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If you build it
Hello, friends! Last night Squish stayed up a bit past her bedtime, watching baseball with me. She's settled on a favorite team—the Los Angeles Angels—and...
🚀The Dark Age: Reading with a pencil
Hello, friends! Here’s how I’m spending my time lately: I’ve given The Dark Age time enough to rest, I think, so I recently returned to it with a pencil at...
The last game of the season
Hello, friends! I've been in a baseball mood lately. No surprises there; it's the start of a new season, all possibilities and fairy tales waiting to be...
🚀The Dark Age: The perils of downtime
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Wherever you wanna go
Hello, friends! If you visited my study, you’d notice there are Post-it notes everywhere. They’re hanging off of my computer displays. Good writing is just...
🚀The Dark Age: Let it breathe
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All writing is revision
Hello, friends! As I write this it is Sunday, March 12, and my brief spring vacation has come to an end. It was simultaneously very productive (I finished a...
🚀The Dark Age: Muddle and revise
Hi, friends! I’m writing this a day late (apologies), but maybe nobody really noticed? If you are anything like me, you subscribe to many newsletters such as...
Making and pointing
Making and pointing Hello, friends! Today's newsletter is a few hours late because I'm on a break, and, to be honest, forgot to write something. That's good,...
🚀The Dark Age: Astronauts Don't Get Pregnant!
Hello, friends! If you've been keeping a pulse on the rapid change in the AI space, perhaps you've seen things like Microsoft's AI that says it wants to be...
In the mood
Hello, friends! Before I forget: St. Martin's Press is conducting a Goodreads giveaway for The Edge of Sleep! There are two weeks remaining to enter your...
🚀The Dark Age: Skimping on the details
Hello, friends! Squish and I have been taking turns reading to one another at night. She'll choose something to read to me one night, and I'll read something...
Ted Lasso, misappropriater of quotations
Hello, friends! Last week I mentioned The Menu, which is a recent movie about an exclusive restaurant and its privileged guests. Of course it's more than...
🏷️🤑📚️ Barnes & Noble pre-order sale: The Edge of Sleep
Hello, friends! A quick bonus newsletter this week to share a special offer from Barnes & Noble: From Wednesday, 1/25, to Friday, 1/27, you can get 25% off...
🚀The Dark Age: Casual encounters of the third kind
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Take a second
Good morning, friends! As I write this it's Monday morning, Martin Luther King Day, and I'm enjoying a bit of daylight here in the dining room. It's been...
🚀The Dark Age: Nervous breakdowns in space
Hello, friends! I've just completed the day's work on The Dark Age, finishing another part of Philip's story. Spending time writing this character has me...