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Don’t get your ideas from AI. It doesn’t have any. It can’t come up with ideas. All it can do is regurgitate. Any idea you’re asking it for is being baby-birded into someone else’s mouth as we speak.

Steal your ideas the old-fashioned way, by reading books.

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In their cramped, rundown apartment, Tim, Jess, and their unpredictable cat Harvey are barely hanging on—struggling with money, bad neighbors, and a building with more locked doors than answers. When Tim’s only friend vanishes under strange circumstances, the shadows in the hallway seem to deepen, and Harvey’s obsession with a mysterious "nowhere door" turns dangerously intense.

Every night brings whispers, anonymous k...

Greetings friends.

When I first joined Substack, I had no idea what I was doing. It was all an experiment. Then a vision took shape. I would use Substack as a delivery platform for my books, publishing serialized chapters and then mailing out the ebook when the serial was completed…and that kind of worked.

Kind of, but not really.

Every step of the way, I had to swim upstream. Substack wasn’t — and isn’t — built for serialized fiction. You can’t even sort...

In their cramped, rundown apartment, Tim, Jess, and their unpredictable cat Harvey are barely hanging on—struggling with money, bad neighbors, and a building with more locked doors than answers. When Tim’s only friend vanishes under strange circumstances, the shadows in the hallway seem to deepen, and Harvey’s obsession with a mysterious "nowhere door" turns dangerously intense.

Every night brings whispers, anonymous knocks, and the creak of hinges where no one’s supposed to be. Jess—overworked, ...

In their cramped, rundown apartment, Tim, Jess, and their unpredictable cat Harvey are barely hanging on—struggling with money, bad neighbors, and a building with more locked doors than answers. When Tim’s only friend vanishes under strange circumstances, the shadows in the hallway seem to deepen, and Harvey’s obsession with a mysterious "nowhere door" turns dangerously intense.

Every night brings whispers, anonymous knocks, and the creak of hinges where no one’s supposed to be. Jess—overworked, ...

In their cramped, rundown apartment, Tim, Jess, and their unpredictable cat Harvey are barely hanging on—struggling with money, bad neighbors, and a building with more locked doors than answers. When Tim’s only friend vanishes under strange circumstances, the shadows in the hallway seem to deepen, and Harvey’s obsession with a mysterious "nowhere door" turns dangerously intense.

Every night brings whispers, anonymous knocks, and the creak of hinges where no one’s supposed to be. Jess—overworked, ...

In their cramped, rundown apartment, Tim, Jess, and their unpredictable cat Harvey are barely hanging on—struggling with money, bad neighbors, and a building with more locked doors than answers. When Tim’s only friend vanishes under strange circumstances, the shadows in the hallway seem to deepen, and Harvey’s obsession with a mysterious "nowhere door" turns dangerously intense.

Every night brings whispers, anonymous knocks, and the creak of hinges where no one’s supposed to be. Jess—overworked, ...

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I appreciate the confidence you've shown in me. Everything you give, I put back into writing. Every dollar buys me free time to write more books. If I can ro...

Dear readers,

Since I started this publication a little more than a year ago, I have published a new chapter or short story every single Friday at 8 a.m. EST.

I've released two full novels, two novellas, over a dozen short stories, and RUOK?, which is entirely its own thing.

So I’m taking this week and next to catch my breath and give you all a chance to catch up on any reading you might have missed. As I gear up for the coming holiday season, I will be putting more of my work behind paywalls and...

That night I went over to Sigfredo's room where Wen was also staying. I saw a blue light oozing out under his door crack and I rapped softly and he opened the door the length of the chain lock that he had installed to protect himself not from Jacques but from one of the other deranged roommates at the grouphouse who had since fucked off and probably died. When he saw it was me he opened the door and ushered me inside and then closed the door quickly behind me and he said, Yeah?

Yeah, I said. I lo...