How I Plan to Build 1,500 Readers from Scratch in Four Months
I have 123 days to launch Doors to the Stars with the wrong audience and no real platform. My Twitter followers are mostly middle-aged men, not young women who want dark YA space opera. Email lists convert 40x better than social media, so I’m building 1,500 engaged subscribers from scratch in four m
The Rorschach Test With Teeth
Someone on Twitter wished authors could be “mystical” again—writing stories that let readers project their own meanings without accountability. That’s not mysticism. That’s cowardice dressed in artistic pretension. My novels are Rorschach tests, but the inkblot has teeth. They contain explicit moral
He Who Saves His Country Does Not Violate Any Law
Napoleon once said, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.” Two centuries later, another world leader echoed those exact words nearly verbatim. Those aren’t the words of a constitutional conservative—they’re the logic every autocrat uses to dismantle democracy. So why is half the countr
An Open Letter to r/Republican on Reddit
I was permanently banned from r/Republican for warning that the precedents conservatives celebrate today become the powers they’ll face tomorrow. Not for opposing Republican values—for defending them. Not for abandoning conservative principles—for taking them seriously. My crime? Making a constituti
My Oath Didn’t Expire. Neither Did Yours.
In January 1994, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution. As far as I’m aware that oath has no expiration date. I’ve voted Republican my entire life. But I’m now watching conservatives make a catastrophic strategic error: dismantling constitutional constraints to empower Trump, without realizing
Things Aren’t as Bad as They Seem; They’re Much Worse
In March 2025, the V-Dem Institute warned the U.S. was “on track to lose its democracy status in six months.” It’s October 2025. We’re there. I’ve been tracking what I thought were three separate crises for months: constitutional collapse, genocide infrastructure, and unchecked executive power. I wa
#NoKings isn’t Hyperbole
Someone on Twitter said #NoKings is just grandstanding from people who lost, that Trump’s power grab doesn’t approach monarchy—but they’re historically illiterate. Most kings throughout history had less power than Trump claims: they couldn’t fire every official, ignore parliaments, or eliminate inst
Your Choices Matter: A Space Opera for Deltarune Fans
What does it mean when a game tells you your choices don’t matter—and then proves they do? Toby Fox’s Deltarune asks this question brilliantly, exploring themes of agency, control, and something alien merged with you that threatens your autonomy. I didn’t discover it until after writing Doors to the
Nobody Boycotting Your AI Cover Was Going to Buy Your Book Anyway
The median indie book earns $300 lifetime—yet the anti-AI crowd demands you spend $2,000 on custom illustration to protect an industry that was never serving you anyway. I searching extensively for evidence that AI covers hurt sales. Found nothing. Not “limited evidence”—nothing. Meanwhile, peer-rev
How Not to Build an Author Platform in 2025
I hired a social media brand strategist to fix my Twitter woes and help me build a new audience—she delivered 47 pages of optimized posting schedules, hashtag combinations, and engagement tactics “guaranteed to see results.” The strategy was data-driven, specific, actionable. But I completely forgot
