A Tale of Two Heroes
“I still don’t see why you needed to come. Apart from anything else, it’s going to make things way more difficult.”
The shepherd looked up in surprise. You hardly ever got people down here. “Look, we’ve been through this,” a second voice said impatiently. “You just haven’t got the voice for this kind of thing.”
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Preorders for the new Tales from Rugosa Coven edition start on July 1!
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#QuestionOfTheDay what's your favorite work of fiction that's NOT about trauma in any way
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A straight woman steals a young gay man's story in Josh Silver's debut novel
By Gary Nunn
Described as one of the books of the year, Fruit Fly asks who has the right to tell which stories in an age of cancellation for cultural appropriation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-09/josh-silver-author-new-book-fruit-fly/106765458
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Chapter 14 is up: Beer Never Broke My Heart.
Charlotte meets Christopher for the first time, and the temperature in the room shifts in ways no one quite names. A small chapter, but an important hinge.
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https://charlottethenovel.substack.com/p/beer-never-broke-my-heart?r=6v9b6f
FROM GEARS TO ETERNITY
In the Age of the Seven Crowns, when Aurel-Khar still stretched from the Frostspine Mountains to the Sapphire Ocean, there lived a wizard named Hadrien Vauld. He was neither especially wicked nor especially noble. History remembers many great sorcerers who reshaped kingdoms, bargained with dragons, or defied gods. Hadrien accomplished none of those things. His ambitions were much smaller. He wanted, more than anything else, to be left alone. Unfortunately, genius rarely receives what it […]https://awyrdtothewizened.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/from-gears-to-eternity/
Damian Penston, writes in The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine about the consequences of chronic insecurity on human behaviour and asks 'what kinds of economic systems are worth organising society around in the first place?' (https://www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/why-modern-economies-keep-people).
I suspect that the society would be a lot more relaxed and happy, with far less conflict. What do you think?
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Thank you, Shipwrecked Librarian, whoever you are, for this great review! Now where's my bottle of scotch?
If you haven't been listening to #anticrastination now's a great time to jump in. Ep 4 is out and things really start falling apart!
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