Happy Black Friday y'all! Whether you're done with your Black Friday strategic strikes, or just plotting your online shopping spree today, here's a few holiday gift suggestions for the sci-fi/fantasy reader in your life... (See ⬇️ for the Amazon connections!) ONE OCTOBER NIGHT

SpaceX will carry ~90% of the world’s payload mass to space this year, so it is pretty much Earth’s space program

Earning a living "following your dream" as a fiction writer Does. Not. Make. Sense. You get more long-term financial stability from working an entry-level office job. You need to admit that so you can figure out why you DO want to write.

Someone... thinks I'm a celebrity?

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Oh, look - it's the latest edition of "Cooking Marie Callender Pies with Sharon", just in time for Thanksgiving!

People don't walk enough. We're meant to move. Go. Get out of the house, leave your phone behind, walk until your thoughts quiet. You'll be happier for it.

People who say "AI is theft" have no idea what they're talking about. We've been through this many, many times before. Quit hammering the table, folks.

Quit justifying evil. Either write me someone who is evil because they embrace it, or write someone who has conflicting goals with your MC. Either is better than a Whiny McWhinerface sulking about "Oh, I was made fun of as a child!"

Join the modern era and give people an easy way to connect with you. Don't want your personal email address flooded with spam? Get another one! They're cheap! Or get a filter! They're cheap, too! *cough* GMail *cough*

In this day & age, you have to market yourself along with your book. Be a good writer, but be an interesting writer as well.

There's not enough humor in fiction. Not humorous fiction, just people joking & kidding, even when things are horrible. Even when everything is deadly serious, someone will crack a joke, if only to spit in the face of death.

That cover (Forgotten Realms novel Spellfire by Ed Greenwood) is a great example of everything the left say they want. The central character, the only one of any stakes for much of the book, is situated in pride of place, dressed in modest medieval clothing (no chainmail bikini

Some stories are meant to be novellas. The fact that there's no real place to publish novellas anymore isn't your problem, it's a failure of the market.

Men want romance in their fiction, too. The problem is that Romance as a genre has taken over, and Big-R Romance is very different from little-r romance.

Learning how to encapsulate an entire story arc in 3000-4000 words (heck, in under 1500 words!) is an essential skill. Saying "I can't write short" is admitting you're unwilling to learn that skill.

Waiting for my wife to get home. Every like gets you one hot take. Syn says: three... two... one... go.

Awww, he loves part of the Navy.

REMINDER: The LegendHaven online convention is happening this weekend! A $10 Adventurer Pass gets you access to two days worth of events - including over fifty AMAs for authors and publishers, readings, panel discussions, and more! I will be doing an event for SIGILS this