It’s done and under review. Proofing copies are on their way.
I have spent the last few months laboriously working out plot holes, punctuation errors, and dumb mistakes like “he is is going…”
Nothing is perfect, but Heaviest Heart is polished and ready to go. The novella is done. The concept art is formatted. The lists have been checked.
Official release date: October 11th. Get hype.
Available for preorder soon.
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I’ve said a few times that my upcoming self-published novella, Heaviest Heart, will be a dark fantasy novella. But what does that mean?
*Book pitch at the bottom!
The problem is that fantasy subgenres are very nebulous. Not only have the categories of fantasy been coined without proper definition or consistency, but their application sinks into a tag for marketing purposes rather than a helpful classification for a piece of literature, movie, or game. However, here are some helpful definitions of the three main categories of fantasy as I understand them:
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The price for making books is rising, but the price for Blue Fable is lowering!
You can now get my modern fantasy novella for $4.99 (Kindle) or $7.99 (Paperback).
I’ve changed it from standard pricing to now bringing in just enough to cover the cost of printing with a little bit off the top for myself. It also gives you a cheap book to read for the start of the summer.
Also, my next upcoming novella, Heaviest Hearts, is on track for a potential October release. I will be posting more about that throughout the summer.
Thanks for reading!
The crowd gathers, but a cry rings out in the darkness.
“Woke! They’ve made it woke!”
Everyone scatters. Disney? Never heard of it. Harry Potter? If it wasn’t the Devil’s bedtime story already, it is now. Marvel? Overrated anyway (something something rollercoasters and real cinema something something).
And then they came for the most influential Christian fiction champion of all time: The Lord of the Rings.
“It’s woke now,” they say, having never watched an episode of Amazon’s The Rings of Power. “Isn’t that awful?”
“Black elves? A feminist Galadriel? Black dwarves? Black hobbits? BLACK PEOPLE? Not in my Middle Earth. Bezos just doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
I found the discourse worrying. Exhausting. So much so that I didn’t want to watch it at all. We’ve seen so many franchises revisited from the 80s, 90s, and now the 2000s that are handled poorly. People don’t want to see something they enjoy dragged through the mud of a poorly written and executed television series. They don’t want something they enjoyed to be soured.
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You survived 2021.
Congratulations.
Now be a better person this next year or be eternally judged by everyone and yourself.
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Long story short, swearing is about a third of the reason I wanted to study English in the first place. I wrote several academic papers in college about it, read many passages of scriptures concerning it, and struggled with the ethics of swearing in creative media and writing constantly (and still do).
That all being said, I want to talk about swearing, because it seems like very few people do, and I think God has given me an interest in swearing that I have not shared much before (which is a strange thing to say).
The discussion below is a long one, but it is much shorter than the pages on pages of material I have written about during my time in school. I wanted to summarize and point to what I thought was the most helpful and most important.
The result is over 3500 words on the topic of swearing in an academic sense with a Christian perspective. If that sounds interesting to you, then please continue reading…
Introduction
There are only so many words in the English language, and you might come to find that most of them are not worth using.
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There comes a point when you have to take life one day at a time. The weight of your responsibilities push you down to a crawl, and to make it through you have to remind yourself of a goal. Something that will make it all worthwhile.
For me, my goal for nearly the past two years has been this: Just a little longer, and I can see her again.
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On account of who people are when it comes to preference, it becomes quite the mess. In the sea of likes, dislikes, and decisions we have to make in this world it nearly becomes impossible to find a true and critical truth to the matter of what is right in front of us.
I am unfortunately a bit of a perfectionist. This makes the mess even messier, ironic as that may seem. This is the fact because a perfectionist looks at the world and says, “There are no gray areas. This is either good, or bad. Effective, or ineffective. Treasure, or garbage.” The middle ground is simply a result of the veil in front of our eyes which is that horrible foe, human error, which keeps us from seeing the truth. “Mundane” is simply a decision still pending as one squints at every critical detail to determine its raw and intrinsic worth. Continue reading →
My undergraduate writing professor, Dr. Daniel Williams, always said that Christians should have an innate advantage to writing because they know how the world works. God reveals the truth to those who listen to his Word through the Holy Spirit as the rest of the world blindly stumbles for answers. We have a inkling of human nature, the power of miracles, the specifics of a higher power, and the truth of sacrificial archetypes as more than just fantasy, as shown through Christ’s ultimate example.
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All the while in my undergraduate studies, I would often make lists of the many things I wanted to blog about. Not because I necessarily thought I had anything incredibly interesting to contribute to the world, or to the people reading my blog, but because it helped me think. It helped me wrestle or celebrate something that was interesting or important to me. I would often look forward to the time when I had time to blog more. To think through things more. I wanted to blog a lot after I graduated from college–I felt like I just had so much to reflect on. But I never did, aside from a few mission updates and another post on loneliness–a theme that continued to simmer in the back of my mind even after college was done and over. Continue reading →
Silver Questions 