SOUL SCREAMING BEHIND THE SCENES: It seems we have a new managing editor as this is how I had to write today’s Music Mondays column. Isabella Crumple, you have the job.

Here’s a deep dive into Elton John‘s 50th anniversary edition of this classic album for devoted fans. I hope you enjoy it. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

This week, America spoke. All politicians should take heed.

This week’s newsletter is particularly joyful. I hope you get a chance to check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

It's Sunday morning, and you know what that means. Coffee with Brian Keene.

At a time where all signs seem to depress, a front lawn cemetery inspires. I hope you give this a chance.

A celebration of over 135 great songs from one amazing year. Affordably priced for those 70’s music fans in your life. Or yourself. Ebook preorder now : a.co/d/8STIO7M Print orders available Nov. 8. Rock on.

This week’s newsletter announces my new book, a perfect holiday gift for music lovers of a certain age, offers links to new free weekly features, and more. Link:https://open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop/p/soul-screaming-2ea?r=28xhw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Have an emerging writer on your holiday list? Here's a fun, affordable, and welcoming guide to get them closer to their dream. link: a.co/d/0C16pzs

New column debuts today: open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop...

A really fun, mind-expanding/how to raise funds for your project episode.

Grateful for this review of our latest, Soul Scream Antholozine: Fear and Loathing.

One of my favorite conversations from Tell The Damn Story, 2025, discussing the new classic, Sinners. I hope you get a chance to check it out. youtu.be/tWMRpPOUaVI?...

This week’s newsletter includes a eulogy, a new book cover reveal, some writer advice, and my current obsessions/recommendations. I hope you get a chance to check it out. Link: open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop...

This week’s newsletter thanks role models, cheers writers group feedback, offers author tips, makes entertainment recommendations, reveals an October superhero, and does everything but cook you eggs. I hope you can check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

Great article!

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Keep on rocking.

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This week’s newsletter largely deals with escaping a writer’s abyss following the nation’s latest nightmare. Plus interviews, books, music, movies, and TV recommendations that can serve as lifelines for modern times. I hope you check it out. open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop...

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

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I am not a Charlie Kirk fan, but he did not deserve to get shot. Just like the Minnesota democratic office holder and spouse did not deserve to get killed. We are in tense times and we all need to calm down and allow the exchange of ideas over violence. We are better than this.

This week’s newsletter offers up memorable moments, great recommendations (and one non-recommendation), a bit of fun, and a dash of advice. I hope you get a chance to check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

This week’s newsletter discusses ways to interpret rejection emails, how to keep writing in an oppressive world, and utilizing playlists to deepen your understanding of your characters. I hope you can check it out. open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop...

This week’s newsletter features good friends, publishing moments, and pop culture obsessions. I hope you can check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

My copies of The Horror Zine Magazine, Fall 2025, edited by Jeani Rector, have arrived. Cool to see my Mallory and Gunner short story “Beasts” in print. Link in comments. a.co/d/8jXevaS

Checked off a bucket list accomplishment by having a Mallory and Gunner short story published in the fall issue of The Horror Zine Magazine and getting to work with Jeani Rector who does all the work on this cool publication purely for the love of the genre. www.amazon.com/Horror-Zine-...

This week’s newsletter discusses using word clouds to help your writing, how to assess writing group feedback, some recommendations, and offers a damn fine photo. I hope you check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

This week's newsletter celebrates a local indie filmmaker, a new feature on my Substack, offers ways to use playlists to help your writing, and updates what I've been doing. I hope you can check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

This week’s newsletter discusses Superman, Fantastic Four: First Steps, civility, grace, empathy, writing with the five senses, and wisdom from perhaps the world’s best writing coach, seen here. open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop...

A summer full of fun for everyone! (Except your little sister Eloise. C’mon, she’s six!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0C88HQ7D...

In this week’s newsletter, I take a look at the late Ozzy Osbourne‘s criminally underrated lyrics and offer tips for succeeding in a writers group. I hope you can check it out. ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

A great mystery. An engaging play. A perfect summer read. Link: a.co/d/7jhRtis

🖤 ✒️ Soul Scream ANTHOLOZINE: Fear and Loathing features disturbing, thought-provoking horror tales for a chilling changed world that explore what lurks further down this path of bile we’re on. Authors & artists offer glimpses of what's to come.

Agreed.

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This week’s newsletter offers a video for my reading at the Shade Bar, discussions of how to do a writers’ group right, why we should embrace the rewrite, the Professor of Rock, old TV, new books, and a certain Man of Steel. I hope you check it out. open.substack.com/pub/ryan2pop...

The new Soul Screaming newsletter is here. Lots to discuss and fear and find inspiring. I hope you can check it out. There might be something in it to inspire you. Link: ryan2pop.substack.com/p/soul-screa...

Great choice for these hot days and muggy nights! Link in comments.

Get yourself a fun and fierce summer read: a.co/d/f6mtqiG

Available now. Link in comments.

We’ve met the Enemy - US. We live in a fractured world divided by fear or loathing depending on the bubble we willingly locked ourselves in. Soul Scream Antholozine: Fear and Loathing features disturbing, thought-provoking horror tales for this changed world. Link in comments.

🖤 #HorrorCommunity 💀 Listen to the best in horror: HWA scribes James Chambers @mothman13.bsky.social Christopher Ryan @chrisryanwrites.bsky.social & Debra Every, etc. @hwany.org @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @hdwp.com @amygrech.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social

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