The Gilded Grove: A Summons of the Minor
Before you read this, please go read this so you understand just how mind blowing and world changing what you are about to read actually is.
I Just Did $40,000 Worth of Publishing Work in Four Days
There’s a conversation happening in creative communities right now that I find exhausting. It goes like this: AI is going to replace writers. AI is cheating. AI output is soulless. Real artists don’t use AI. If you use AI you’re not really creating.
Why I’m Going Back to X and Giving Elon My Money
I’ve been acting like I have a salary. I don’t. I have books. I have ideas. I have a body of work that exists to reach people who need it. And every platform I abandon in the name of ethics is a limb I’ve cut off to prove I’m fighting fair.
Going Back to Amazon (And Why I’m Not Ashamed)
I spent years telling anyone who would listen that Amazon was the problem. Not a problem — the problem. The monopolist eating indie publishing alive, the algorithm overlord that made serfs of writers, the company that could delist your life’s work on a Tuesday afternoon with no explanation and no appeal. I believed all of that. I still believe most of it.
You Built a Real Audience the Hard Way — Then the Algorithms Buried It. I Know Exactly How That Feels.
If you’re a GenX or older millennial creator who built something real in the early internet days, poured years into honest work, and then watched the numbers slowly die while newer, more optimized accounts took off — you’re not alone and you’re not crazy.
The American known as the Thai Silk King Vanishes: Jim Thompson’s Mysterious Disappearance and the Enduring Wild Theories
James Harrison Wilson Thompson — architect, World War II spy, and the man who single-handedly revived Thailand’s silk industry — left behind a thriving business, a legendary house filled with priceless art, and a trail of conspiracy theories that still refuse to die nearly six decades later.