Now reading YR DEAD by Sam Sax. Boy is this taking some big swings and not apologizing about it. I can see why reviews are divisive.

Just finished THE NIGHT SHIP by @alexwoodroe.com (out 1/20/26). 5/5⭐️. I don’t want to give away too much, but it gave me feelings of Stranger Things, The Last of Us, and The Thing at different times. Also, pretty righteous nautical horror feel despite there not being an actual boat. Sequel, please.

If you want a primer on contract law, check out Law School for Everyone: Contracts from The Great Courses. That course was at least as valuable to me as the business law class I took in grad school. Might have been more useful than a decade of working with legal to redline compliance language, too.

If it was a law enforcement action, why are we talking about running a sovereign nation? Those two things feel a bit at odds with one another.

Do you hear that scratching at your window? If you don’t preorder The Denizens you’ll find out what’s causing it.

This book fucks. Go buy it, ideally from anywhere other than the Zon.

They don’t prepare you as a parent to have a conversation with your 7yo about how their friend suddenly passed away over vacation. Fuck man, positive vibes are appreciated.

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I love editing a manuscript after it’s been sitting for a few months. Sure, there’s a lot of work in the edit, but from time to time it’s nice to read something and realize you are actually pretty good at the writing thing.

I’m going to interpret this as being unavailable for work because I’m at the beach a bunch this year.

Happy New Year! I hope you all have the year you want to have.

Manuscript is printed for editing. Already wrote a few notes about what needs to be added, removed, and moved. It’s going to get longer, but it’s going to get better. I can’t wait to roll out of bed tomorrow and start shaping up this draft.

Seems to be somewhat fashionable to do…

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Watched BUGONIA. Very weird. Like, I never knew what to think at any given point in time. Thoroughly enjoyed it. If you like weird shit it’s worth the watch.

I always end the year by not working on any writing between Christmas and New Year’s Day. It’s a great reset, and it always leaves me champing at the bit come Jan 1. Here’s to a few more days of absolute laziness.

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I have a long ass driveway. It snowed last night. My plow guy is in the Caribbean with his family. This would be catastrophic if it weren’t for the kindness of my neighbor who rocked up with his plow and did it for free. That guy is getting a bourbon basket sent to his house.

Christmas just keeps on rolling thanks to bookmail from @badhandbooks.bsky.social and @cursedmorsels.bsky.social. Hyped for both of these! (Shoutout to my wife’s frog witch painting for sneaking into the selfie)

Hey, has media literacy really gotten so bad that every show/movie has either a companion podcast or an explainer newsletter? I don’t need the ending explained, I watched it.

The Running Man (2025) was loads of fun. Glenn Powell might have the juice.

Wife hooked me up with the Folio Society of my favorite short story collections. Merry Christmas!

I needed to see this today, especially after having a less productive writing year than I had hoped for.

Vote for FEEDING THE WHEEL for best novella on the final ballot and you'll be giving the dumbest award in horror to the dumbest writer in horror

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I bet the marketing team is sitting around prompting ChatGPT trying to figure out why everyone won’t just see it from their POV. “If we explain it enough the people will support us!”

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

Having to get up early two days this week to send my kids to school where they will eat snacks and watch movies is doing an unrelenting amount of psychic damage to me right now

“Generative AI is what’s going to allow us to compete,” was one of the last things the CEO at the gaming company I worked for said before I was laid off. It does give me some joy to see gaming companies punished for its use (aside from all the other ethical and environmental reasons to hate it)

It’s a good ass book. Cryptids abound.

Book store run was, once again, fruitful

There’s a lot this administration is doing that enrages me, but its treatment of the trans community stands apart in its naked cruelty. These policies are designed to harm, and everyone behind them knows it. Personally, I wish these ghouls the worst.

I’m not done reading for the year, and I have a lot of favorites, but holy shit, rekt by Alex Gonzalez did something to my brain. I couldn’t put it down, couldn’t look away, and finished it in 2 sittings. Might be my BOTY.

I’m the guy that has to sign off on integration plans and application driven workflows at my company. I’m drowning in the dumbest requests you’ve ever seen thanks to forced AI adoption.

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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

This may be my favorite SGJ, which is saying a lot because the dude has one hell of a catalog.

Providence was a second home to me between 17-23. My heart is broken for the Brown community, the city, and everyone impacted by this senseless act of violence.

My oldest loves graphic novels and comics. For the longest time she had no interest in books. She’s always read above grade level, and now she loves a good novel. Reading is reading. (Also, comics are rad.)

I’ve made it to a point where the vast majority of my rejections are personalized, which is cool. Anyway, time to keep submitting (maybe with a revision or two).

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I was juggling 4 books. Finished 2. Read the first chapter of 2 new ones, and fell in love with both. I’m now juggling 4 books.

I can’t wait for this to be brought up at work as a reason that we need to be “all in on AI generated media”

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