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Critical Nostalgia
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Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA.

No rep. Bad reputation.

California · highway62press.com
The rest of it is rank bullshit.

I'm happy to talk about the books and how they come about. Books are hard enough to write as it is. The wind-up dancing monkey thing (derogatory) is done.
February 11, 2026 at 4:47 AM
I just like being a weirdo and talking about movies and music and I write stuff that is like people to read and it ends right about there.
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Yeah, spending any time amongst people who aren't so much writing books but selling books they've written is crazy-making. Performative everything. Got no nose for it, no inclination.
February 11, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Wow. Luxury.

I just gotta know, did you bring up avocado toast in this drivel or not?
February 11, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Cold front just rolled in. Cold enough to turn the heater under the desk back on.

Which also doubles as a kitten call. Go figure.
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Anyways, filling all this stuff in. Still not likely to start the campaign before May because... marketing.

Which I really do not know how to do effectively. So I'll have three months to flail. Neat.
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 AM
"There's pack wear on this one! It's valueless!"
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Kickstarter keeps asking if I want to post a video for My Gifts Are Hungry and I'm all
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Neon would never.

Probably.
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Latest from the Mothership: My Gifts Are Hungry finished, refusing to walk away, but also walking away, klout and sales and playing the wrong game.

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FULL BLEED: LITTLE ORPHANS IN THE SNOW
Maybe you heard the news. Finished another novel a couple days ago. Trying to remember whether this is number ten or eleven. There’s four I can’t really count even though I wrote ‘em. Maybe those name...
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February 11, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Post a mage
February 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Bookdega cats
February 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Chat, should I fire my financial guy who said this was a sure thing?
Sora 2 apparently cost something like $5 billion to run every year and so far made OpenAI around $1.4 million.
February 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Geritol's been a punchline for as long as I can remember, but apparently there's Bluesky sponsorship potential.
February 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
They all lived rough lives before becoming actors.
February 10, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Him and Lee Marvin. Really a bunch of those guys out there who played past the tough guy (even if the script was trying to strait-jacket them.)
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
And yet they only seem to love books with an ad budget.

Weird, right?
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Gonna remind you that Sony sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to die at Netflix because they believed it wouldn't be a hit.

Maybe it's the executives who are wrong, yeah?
Matt Braly has shared never-before-seen development artwork from his canceled feature film at Sony Pictures Animation.

The project centered on a young boy who embarks on an emotional journey into a fantastical realm of Thai spirits, hoping to find a cure for his illness.
February 10, 2026 at 10:27 PM
The book I just finished is the tenth? Eleventh since I started this?

Chicxulubs all the way down.
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I don't pay for ads. My books don't get covered by *any* outlet, in any genre no matter how much they swear up and down they're all about the little undiscovered authors. My name got no ring. It sucks out there and yeah, I'm constantly reminded of it.
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Seeing some "She only sold 37 books on Amazon!" and folks, ain't a one of my titles sold more than that when self-published.

I get it. She's a scammer and a slopper but if we're talking about sales as arbiters of a minimum of quality, you've already been suckered.
February 10, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The Canon version might not but great, but it's winning the battle of the looks.
February 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Better than Nirvana.
February 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"You bet I got a scale! I'm gonna weigh that heart and you don't wanna be around if it weighs more'n a feather!"
February 10, 2026 at 9:06 PM