it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Corran Brownlee.
A nice little trifecta to kickoff the new year.
That tracks.
We all suffer from imposter syndrome, believe me. You write for the joy of it, but the headwind is your secret belief that what you’re doing sucks.
This reply from King to a struggling author speaks to my soul.
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![Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering
Blurb reads:
"In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fqiezj5xezgyanoc6rhpwir/bafkreih43la6kadfbqd7bbo5lkyiwl5zfu3eszyvzfzdtmuecz5th7ehua)
Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"
TRADWIFE IS OUT TODAY!!
It's fictional true crime. It's political. And it's very, very angry
I'd love you to check it out:
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I’m currently stuck on that existential dread.
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Do me a favor and support this campaign with a donation however small. Think of people behind bars and think what it would mean to you, if that was you, to have access to books. Thanks.
I got this gem just in time for the long weekend.
Drug-addled youth in some shit hole, cultists American town sounds like my youth.
So yeah I’m stoked about this one.
Radon Journal, for some awesome short stories to run out the clock on a slow day.
www.radonjournal.com
Thanks Monday. Thanks for reminding me that “I’ll be swinging fucking hammers until the day I die.”
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