Category: What It Is Wednesday
A weekly series naming what something actually is — the thing under the thing, the pattern people miss, the honest description of a situation people would rather euphemize.
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Helaena Targaryen: The Madness of Knowing the Future
One of my favorite characters in “House of the Dragon” is Helaena Targaryen, and I’m loving how the show presents her attempts to deal with her prophetic abilities. It’s one of the few shows, books, movies, etc., that I’ve seen really portray the madness of knowing the future in a way that I think is…
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25 in ’25: January Wins
In my plan to release 25 new Intellectual Property (IP) products in 2025, January was a win. Keep in mind that each book could become several different IP releases. In other words, one product might be in print, ebook, audiobook, full-cast audiobook, German translation. I get to set my own rules here, and part of…
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25 in ’25: Magic and Meaning in the Productive 60s
I’ve read that a person’s sixties is their most productive decade, and I’m beginning to understand why. That’s supposedly from a New England Journal of Medicine study but I’ve not been able to find the original source, for whatever reason. Still, the productive 60s feels strangely right in a way that it couldn’t have in…
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Alice Munro’s Daughter Hits Close to Home
I could read only so much of the OpEd penned by Alice Munro’s daughter. I might have gotten a hundred words or so in, and I had to stop. It was too close to the bone to continue. The OpEd, entitled “My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro,…
