E.S. Raye's Blog

I’m coming to the end of a brief transition period between writing projects, so it feels like an appropriate time to share an update. I currently have five writing projects in various levels of progress, some far more developed than others. Untitled Cosmic Horror WIP If you follow me on social media, you may have […]

(My MCM Retro-Futuristic PC) Monday was a holiday, and I’m running late this week, so this one’s gonna be short, but with plenty of images! As I have mentioned before, I have build a custom PC (nothing fancy, it’s really just a glorified word processor and internet browser–which is why its name is Edi(ting and) […]

The most recent issue of my speculative fiction magazine Persied Prophecies just came out last week, and it’s filled to the brim with spooky tales for these darkening, crispy autumn days. So, in an effort to alert as many readers as I can to these wonderful authors, this week’s blog directs you to my quarterly […]

Toronto’s Word on the Street Book & Magazine Festival was this past weekend, and I was there for the full fourteen hours! Since I work from home, most days the only actual, living human being I speak out loud to is my wife Jessie (I talk to the dogs a lot, but they aren’t the […]

No deep thoughts on writing, updates on projects, or dives into genres this week. Instead, today I only want to remind you that I will be at Toronto’s The World on the Street Book & Magazine Festival this weekend! I will be there, both days, all day, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday, […]

One year ago tomorrow, September 16th, 2025, my debut novel Gas Giant Gambit was released. It’s been an exciting year, and I thought a look back at some of the highlights might be fun. There have been a few other things in there as well, including a couple additional convention appearances, and perhaps a thing […]

This week I’m going to do things a little differently. Rather than blather on about a subject, I’m going to share a short story that I’m quite proud of, but never could seem to get published anywhere else. This story was written for the NYC Midnight Short Story Contest back in January of 2023. If […]

Most people are familiar with prose (even if they aren’t familiar with the word), but screenplays aren’t general seen by the movie going audience. So, as someone interested in writing one, the other, or both, the differences can be a little mystifying at first. But, as a writer that has found himself experiencing the earliest […]

If you’re one of my dear “Constant Readers” (to borrow a turn of phrase from one of the masters), you may have seen the post before. A couple of times, in fact. But, once again, one of my outlines got a fair amount of attention on social media recently, with a lot of questions about […]

As I have said time and time again, I love me a good genre mashup. The more obscure the resulting subgenre, the better. Genre mashups offer a bending or re-imagining of tropes from sometimes wildly opposing creative origins, and are a lot of fun to read and write. Earlier this year, I set out to […]