Welcome!
I hosted a livestream on Tuesday to talk about Find the Blackpage, answer some questions, and gab with all you wonderful folk who could join. It was wide ranging and covered a lot of ground, and I talked a lot about what it was like to write the serial and my own ethos as a writer.
Timestamps
00:00 - We Begin! Includes a synopsis of Find The Blackpage, which you can still read for free!
02:46 - Thank you for reading! No discussion of Find The Blackpage would be complete without deep gratitude to the many readers who made the process of serialization so special and rewarding. THANK YOU everyone for checking this story out and telling me you loved it!
04:54 - Questions from
05:05 - “Does the book beast have an adorable name?” But I also talked a lot about the Beast and what it represents and why it was kind of challenging to write.
08:07 - “Can you tell us more about the magic system? Where did the idea come from?” Which paired with a later question by Therese Judeana about inspiration. And a digression about my attitude towards magic in this story.
13:33 - “Who was your favorite character to write and why?” I answer the question but also talk about my thoughts on some of the other characters
15:25 - Question from
“What was the most fun and most challenging part of writing this series?” I answered with a bit of a digression about my ethos for storytelling in any given genre. I also talk a bit about how the story evolved.
19:07 - This dovetails into a question from
about writing dramatic scenes that were planned which I later had to revise as the story changed while I wrote it.
22:09 - Questions from
“Which Book-world was your favorite?” It’s a challenging question to answer but I still tried answering it. A bit of a digression about what World Books do and what’s interesting about them.
26:52 - “What would the world-book of Scoot be and would it have a beast in it?”
This is probably my favorite question because it was a great excuse to talk about some of my interesting attitudes about the craft of writing and how much of ourselves we put in our stories.
29:40 - Circling back to the question about “inspiration” and talking about my goals for this first foray of mine into the genre of Fantasy. And then sidetracked answering a question from
about other interpretations of the Book Beast
33:35 - What’s next for Gibberish!
Seasons for 2026 (watch the video to learn more!)
37:00 - What’s happening IMMEDIATELY next?
Collaboration with
!A return to an unfinished limited serial, Wolves of the Great War
37:40 - I sign my soul away to
’s Fiction Cartel39:50 - Brief digression about horror, shout out to
who has been my gateway drug into the genre. If you’d like to see the Horror i’ve written, check out the tag HERE.Towards the end there’s a shout out to
who recently discovered the serial I published before Blackpage, called DUEL which is behind a paywall but you can check out the index HERE.If you’re looking for a way to start reading at Gibberish, check out my START HERE page!
The end is a bit of a midwest goodbye, so thanks for sticking with it.
God bless you, and thank you again for reading!
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