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15 Dec 2025
My good friend Ryan died of cancer. I wrote about saying goodbye to him but couldn’t get the piece accepted anywhere, which pissed me off, but fuck it, it’s on my author site now. Read it if you’d like.
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Short interview with @wadeparrish5 about his upcoming novel, Debt.
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Team USA up 3-0 at the half And looking REALLY good.
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Ain’t a major award, but I’ll take all that I can get. My novel is a National Indie Excellence Award Winner.
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Picket Fire is not only releasing a new novel in August (Debt) but also a short story collection called “This Heart’s on Fire,” and as the contributions come in, I’m getting very excited for it.
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I won’t even ask you to buy my books. But if you want to be a homie, go to your library’s website and request they buy it.
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Submitted a short story today because I didn’t want my four dollars anyway.
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Request small press books from your library! Libraries look at what is being checked out at other libraries as well when choosing acquisitions. I just requested “The Valerie’s” by @forrestmuelrath from @ExpatLitJ at my library here in Bloomington, IN.
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If you didn’t bother to write it, why would I bother to read it?
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A.I. writing has its share of telltale signs: copious em dashes, tortured similes and metaphors, and conspicuous verbs. Yet more advanced models are falling into a new trap: emptiness. Even when asked to mimic the styles of great writers, Claude prefers to generate passages in which characters idly touch furniture in empty hallways and nothing at all seems to happen. Can A.I. produce writing we actually want to read? It’s not looking likely, Jay Caspian Kang writes. Read about his hope for the future of writing: newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…
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“Debt weaves psychological and legal inspection with murder, love, and ethical concerns. Replete with surprising twists many won’t see coming, Debt is a vivid, unpredictable escapade that’s hard to put down.”
- Midwest Book Review
Debt is available for preorder. Link below.
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Debt by Wade Parrish, available 8/11/26
Hardcover $24.95
Paperback $17.95
Picketfire.com/shop
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So far I’m not really enjoying Lapvona. Halfway in and I find it fairly boring. The unreality of the setting and circumstances is also off putting. It reads more like allegory than anything. A loooooong allegory.
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Considering signage or bookmarks for Picket Fire that say, “Read like a grown up.” Is this too combative?
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Debt, by Wade Parrish, is now available for preorder on the Picket Fire website in both limited edition hard cover and paperback. Link in comments.
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Top Five American Authors? Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway for sure. Toni Morrison is probably on there. Tough call for the other two. I’m not a Faulkner guy. Didion might be on there. Maybe Portis, because dammit, reading should be fun.
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Submitted my manuscript to the New Directions novel contest. The kid’s call this, “shooting your shot.”
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I don’t know why autocorrect added an apostrophe to “kids.”
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