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The November edition of the Ghost Post is now public. You can read it on Patreon and Ko-fi. I'm afraid writing about Icarus is darkly funny in retrospect.

Episode 6 of Let's Play Dredge went up for supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi. Episode 5, the highlight of which is me cooing over anglerfish, is now public on Patreon, Ko-fi, and YouTube.

I've also had an interview go live this week! I spoke to C.M. Rosens about the Authors for Palestine fundraiser and The Sharpest Thorn. On a related note, I highly recommend her recently re-released novel, The Crows.

My books are now exclusively available through my Ko-fi shop, priced between £1 - £4, but I will tell you a secret: if the world is truly too much and you cannot spare the cash but you need something to keep you afloat, I'd be honoured to be the life ring. Shoot me a message and I'll hook you up.

While I'm recommending distractions, I could've saved this for next month's Haunt a Friend but I'm not gonna! Tara Giancaspro guested on Feminist Frequency Radio talking about The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and I had a blast listening to it on my lunch at work while bobbing and weaving between colleagues asking me to perform reactions to the fucking election for them. (Incidentally, if you live in another country and you know 1 [one] American immigrant, please don't do that.)

The September edition of the monthly newsletter is now free to read on Patreon and Ko-fi. I'm also experimenting with putting the essay portion of the newsletter up on my Neocities website - if you'd prefer the full version posted on Neocities, let me know!

I'd also like to draw attention to Sarah Gailey's post about the NaNoWriMo fiasco. Pull-quote of note:

"The arguments themselves around this so-called classism and ableism wave off the actual existence of writing communities, critique groups, beta readers, and critique partners; they also ignore the creative realities of the impoverished and disabled artists, marginalized authors, and indie authors who have been working all this time without the help of language learning model software that was trained on work stolen from their peers and colleagues."