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Why I Built a Platform
I stopped renting my readers Last spring I clicked the most important button on my own website and hit a locked door. The button said "Read Free Stories." I'd put it front and center, the thing I most wanted a new reader to press. I pressed it myself, pretending to be a stranger.…
Acceptable Losses
Perfect for readers of character-driven military science fiction who love the moral command dilemmas of David Weber's Honor Harrington and the crucible academies of Ender's Game.
The Integration Era
Imagine a world where everyone is watched, judged, and rated... Welcome to the Integration Era. Just over a century ago, on an uninspiring planet just inside the forward edge of mankind's expansion to the stars, an alien installation was discovered. The world was barely habitable…
Writing Resources
A Collection of free, downloadable resources for writers. Want something added to this collection? Ask a question and we'll build an FAQ together Visit the Studio for free online tools Online Character Template Online World Building Template Manuscript review tool (identify issue…
Chapter Endings as Contracts
A chapter ending is a contract. Most writers sign it without reading. Every working writer has had this talk with a beta reader. The pacing felt off in the middle, they say. You ask which chapter. They can't point to one. So you go back and revise the chapters in that range. You …
Technomancer
Technomancer Elara crossed dimensions with a dark mage's compulsion sealed into her soul — find the technomancer, hold him, and let the magic drag them both back. She has no choice. She never did. Finn Miller has been running from the NSA since he weaponized their own quantum sur…
Another Past Trilogy
A Second Chance, Measured in Decades Paul Taylor died at sixty-five. A brilliant physicist, he had changed the world and somehow missed the parts of it worth changing it for. Then a fusion accident in 2033 ended his first life — and he woke on a summer morning in 1979, fourteen y…
Book Battles - Episode Six
Sci vs Sci The Vor Game vs Ender’s Game Two Hugo winners, two undersized boy geniuses handed command years too early, and two completely opposite verdicts on the same question: what do you do when the order is wrong? Orson Scott Card's Ender Wiggin and Lois McMaster Bujold's Mile…
Book Battles - Episode Five
Sci vs Fi Red Planet vs Red Mars Forty-three years separate these two Mars novels, but the real distance between them is a single afternoon. On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 spent twenty-five minutes photographing the Martian surface and beamed back twenty-one images that ended the Lo…
Book Battles - Episode Four
Sci vs Fi Ringworld vs Disc World Larry Niven and Terry Pratchett both built impossible worlds on the page and dared readers to believe in them. Niven's Ringworld is an act of engineering faith: a structure 186 million miles in diameter, mathematically plausible, physically deman…
Book Battles
Welcome to Book Battles Science fiction and fantasy have been arguing with each other, and with us, for over a century. Book Battles is a monthly series that leans into that argument: each episode pits two genre legends head-to-head, rescues a forgotten classic from undeserved ob…
Book Battles - Episode One
Sci vs Fi Lord of The Rings vs Dune Start with how close neither of these came to existing. Frank Herbert was rejected 20 times before Sterling Lanier, an editor at Chilton, picked Dune up off its serialization in Analog. Chilton published auto repair manuals. They printed 2,200 …
Book Battles - Episode Two
Sci vs Fi Dragonriders of Pern vs. Game of Thrones Here's something that should settle a few arguments: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern is not actually fantasy. The dragons of Pern were genetically engineered from native fire-lizards by a colony geneticist named Kitti Ping …
Book Battles - Episode Three
Sci vs Fi The Hunger Games vs Harry Potter Both series sold hundreds of millions of copies and turned their protagonists into archetypes that show up everywhere now. But the philosophies underneath them couldn't be more different, and the contrast starts at the origin stories. J.…
Start Here
I write science fiction and fantasy about systems, and the people stuck inside them. Sometimes the system is time itself. Sometimes it's a compulsion sealed into a woman's soul. Sometimes it's an alien overlay that measured all of humanity in 6 stats and then, rudely, declined to…
The Witch's Brew
Practical Magic meets Mexican Gothic in a single Halloween night — a seduction, a horror, and a bargain a young man is too afraid to take.
The Chapter You Can't Write
The Chapter You Can't Write Every craft podcast tells you to push through. On this, every craft podcast is wrong. Or to be fair: right about half the time, badly wrong the other half. And nobody teaches you which half you're in. Most working writers have lived the bad version. A …
Book Battles – Ep6
Watch Book Battles on YouTube. Episode 6 (July 2026) Sci vs Fi has The Vor Game vs Ender’s Game. Two Hugo Winners, two undersized boy geniuses handed command years too early, and two completely opposite verdicts on the same question: what do you do when the order is wrong? Someth…