I’ve posted a long thread on X that looks back over my timeline for the past 21 years. Most of it was spring 2003 and December 2023, and I invite you to take a look.
For those of you subscribed to email updates, I’m almost sorry that you’ve now gotten as many as nine notifications since I started the site up. I hope you’re not sorry, and I’m glad you’re along for the ride, and I hope you enjoy what you see. I probably will try to keep at least half a dozen posts a month coming out, whether meta-content or new projects or publications or just scrappy ideas.
If you’re not subscribed, you can do that from my main page at the bottom. And when the numbers pick up a bit, email subscribers may get some special sneak peeks here and there.
Some behind the scenes thoughts:
My three books so far, two shorts and a short short, are on Amazon Kindle free with your subscription, or buy them for 99 cents for the short short and $2.99 for the others (or local currency equivalents for my non-US readers).
Aside from some affiliate programs (including Amazon, ElevenAI, and a couple of others, this is how I get paid for my work. I don’t see it replacing the day job anytime soon, but I plan to treat it as if it could someday.
I thought about Medium or Patreon or mygirlfund (if it’s even still around) but I want to keep it simple and focus on the writing rather than the platforms.
I might change things around a bit, adjust the site layout, maybe even adding an offsite newsletter, and I’m trying to decide on a freebie to post in January as sort of a gateway story. So far everything is standalone, so I can’t really draw you into a series that doesn’t exist yet. But maybe I should get a series started so I can do that.
What’s ahead:
I’ve hinted at this in various places, but for my own accountability, here’s what I see in the next three months if all goes acceptably.
- A trilogy with unexpected couplings (in both senses) on the Las Vegas Strip,
- An almost-Internet-famous man taking a presumptuous young woman on a long walk in a tiny town and meeting someone unexpected along the way, in a way,
- A camper van conversion and a throwback to John Fowles in a way, but with full consent and no tragedy,
- A travel agent who hates to travel but loves to laugh in bed,
- And a man with a tape recorder up his brother’s nose.
Come along with me as we bring some of these stories to light and life in the coming months.
Marklin Foster 