Follow Russ on his journey to self publication of his first novel, Crimson Son.
This was one of my earliest publications with another disappeared venue, Writer’s Haven. I haven't saved the best for last, more an indicator of how far I've come on this journey. This was a story inspired by a comment from my wife's grandfather. Brief, slightly mysterious, it goes for a slow revelation I have yet to master. And if you squint real close, you'll see Hurricane and Hound...
Thanks to the kind folks over at The Junction, my latest story has found a home...
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Everyone. Internet. 2020.
We must disempower lifestyle vaporware and focus on the real world...
My first instinct was to dismiss his assertion much like I was emptying our RV black tank full of two weeks of excrement into the sewer....
When I set out to write Ace Grant, I wanted to create a wholly American mythology. It needed to reflect our history, not simply write another Western European transplant of faye courts and vikings. Magic existed here long before those cultures arrived. Our story then is one of a fusion of cultures amid a migration full of triumph and tragedy. Complex, sure. But I knew one thing. The protagonists? They didn't look like me...
Given the current political reality, it might seem impossible to change your perspective. I'm going to try...
I don't care who you voted for. You are the one who matters, not them. One person will decide our country's fate, but it isn't either candidate. It's you. America changes when you do.
In less than one week, the world will end. Off in the backcountry and hidden along forest roads, even I can't shake the building tension. A defeatist atmosphere prevails over the formerly United States of America. The election countdown has become a doomsday clock. As that count winds down, half of the country expects the worst...
Free, transparent systems are the future. Control is achieved through opacity. An open society will set us free. But you can be free now...
