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Achievement Unlocked: Rise and Shine, Baby!

Wake up 10,000 days in a row.

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Achievement Unlocked: Intermittent Faster

Skip breakfast seven days in a row.

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Achievement Unlocked: Dry Fire

Try and fail to make a bowel movement.

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Achievement Unlocked: Marlboro Man

Have a cigarette first thing in the morning.

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Achievement Unlocked: Let’s G...

I am pleased to announce my participation in the Read a Book, Feed a Neighbor event, brainchild of author .

For the month of November, I will be donating all royalties from sales of my novel, Hallway, to my local food bank, the Upper Valley Haven.

For more information or to participate yourself, check out ’s original post below:

A Fictionalized AccountRead a Book, Feed a NeighborThe Problem…Read more20 days ago · 19 likes · 3 comments · J. Kyle Turner

You can grab your copy of Hallway below, availa...

Please note: this guide assumes you care at least a little about being creative and aren’t a soulless empty shell hack intent on spamming recycled pabulum.

Ideas - No AI

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.

Creative Writing - No AI

Obviously not. What the hell would the point of that...

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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...

Joe with the new No Dogs in Philly paperback

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, ...

Joe, moments before attacking me

Thank you again for subscribing, reading, commenting, and sharing my posts. And extra special thanks to everyone who heeded my call last week to upgrade to paid. No one just gives you $50 if they don't believe in you. No one sits down and spends a weekend reading your work if they aren't getting value from it.

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...