500-plus Subscribers
I hit a milestone this month: 500-plus subscribers. Thank you for subscribing and spreading the word. What do you say to getting us to 1,000?
And thank you to annual paid subscribers who renewed this month. If you’re a free subscriber, please consider converting into a paid.
Producing and promoting stories requires time and money. Independent authors like me are often overlooked because of trends, sales, and genre. I do not answer to a board or a corporation and have no interest in being with the “right people” and saying the “right phrases.”
Your book purchases and paid Substack subscriptions tilt the challenges of business and creating stories in my favor. A unique, well-told story not only illuminates experiences, similarities, differences, joys, pains, fears, and hopes about our short time here on Earth but also attracts an audience that, like a snowball, attracts a larger audience, resources, and opportunities—all of which lifts the audience *and* the writer.
My ideal reader is the individual (no matter age, gender, color, creed, number of degrees, or no degree) who invests in American culture—nooks and crannies and warts and all; loves plot, character, theme, and imagination; and longs to be entertained like the root sense of that word—to be held by. This everyday reader may be a farmer, work in an office, or clean the office.
I love shaping and sharing my stories that, be they novels or short fiction, focus on ordinary Americans real and imagined and offer an alternative to what’s popular, prescribed, or assumed you’ll consume. I hand-make everything you read: writing and editing the stories; book interiors and covers; and marketing materials. I have a long-standing interest and background in science, classical learning, and making stuff.
New Novel
I completed a draft of my next novel and sent it off into the editing stage.
Publisher Links
Links to my books published by Fire In Hand Media are now available on my website. You can buy from other outlets, but buying from the publisher and me is preferred.
I’ll be back next month with a short story. Until then see y’all later and thank you for supporting me and my work and spreading the word.