20 Short Stories that Inform and Influence My Fiction

What I Learned from Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Story Study: The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest

A Return to the Dark Tower — Revisiting My Friends from the Ka-tet of Nineteen

6 Unhinged Writing Prompts That Definitely Aren’t Boring

Getting Started With Secular Tarot

So, why on earth do I have such a soft spot for tarot? It’s a tough question, especially…

Joe’s Three Aspects Tarot Spread

In my recent post On Secular Tarot, I promised to share the spread I use most often. I call it my 3…

Lessons Learned from Josh Malerman’s Bird Box

The first time I attempted to read Bird Box I did not like it. I made it only a…

My Top 5 Reads of 2021

I read a lot of books last year. Like A LOT. It was a record year for me. I read more than 130 books, and quite a few…

What’s It Like To Take A Long Intensive Writing Course?