David M. Snow's Blog

What follows are fragments from a world I am still uncovering. They surface without warning. Out of order. Incomplete. Sometimes contradictory.

I don’t yet know who is recording them, or why they’ve appeared now.

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I only know they belong to something larger.

These entries are not meant to be read in sequence.

Each one documents an event, a signal, or a phenomenon that resists easy explanation.

You can begin anyw...

If you’re looking for stories that push back against despair instead of sinking into it, you’re in the right place.

My name is David M. Snow. I’m a speculative fiction writer and the publisher behind Flame Arrow Publishing, a press dedicated to stories of resilience, resistance, and rebirth.

True North is where those two worlds meet.

Here, you’ll find:

Reflections on writing, publishing, and building stories that matter

Fragments of fiction and ideas in progress

A behind-the-scenes look at the jou...

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À part poster quelques vidéos TikTok et stories Instagram, je suis resté silencieux depuis le début de l'année, travaillant principalement en coulisses pour lancer ma propre maison d’édition. Cela m'a pris tout mon temps et mon écriture en a souffert. J'ai également l'impression que je n'ai plus grand-chose à...

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Aside from posting a few TikTok videos and Instagram stories, I’ve been silent since the beginning of the year, mostly working behind-the-scenes to launch my own imprint. This has taken up all my time and has been eating away at my writing. I also feel like I don’t have as much to share about my writing projects these days as things are moving slowly...

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Aside from posting a few TikTok videos and Instagram stories, I’ve been silent since the beginning of the year, mostly working behind-the-scenes to launch my own imprint. This has taken up all my time and has been eating away at my writing. I also feel like I don’t have as much to share about my writing pr...

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As I am writing these lines, I am slowly recovering from COVID which I had managed to avoid for almost 4 years. Though I was in China during the initial outbreak in 2020, I never got it. I guess I can say that now I have joined the club. (Is this even a good thing?). I spent the last couple of weeks resting mostly, reading and getting back into writi...

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As I am writing these lines, I am slowly recovering from COVID which I had managed to avoid for almost 4 years. Though I was in China during the initial outbreak in 2020, I never got it. I guess I can say that now I have joined the club. (Is this even a good thing?). I spent the last couple of weeks restin...

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Au moment où j'écris ces lignes, je me remets lentement de la COVID que j'ai réussi à éviter pendant près de 4 ans. Étrangement, je ne l'ai jamais contractée même quand j’étais en Chine lors de la première vague de la pandémie en 2020. Je crois pouvoir dire que j'ai maintenant rejoint le club des covidés. (...

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I finally got to travel and attend a couple of events this month. I visited Ottawa for the first time and it felt nice to see the capital city of my home country. here you can see my very happy face beside the clock tower.

I’ve been missing travelling around and I surely hope I can do more of that next year in 2024. I at...

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I finally got to travel and attend a couple of events this month. I visited Ottawa for the first time and it felt nice to see the capital city of my home country. here you can see my very happy face beside the clock tower.

I’ve been missing travelling around and I surely hope ...