Incredibly blessed to learn my debut novel The Quantum Entanglement has been named a SPSFC Quarterfinalist!

A graphic showing seven book covers and the Team Space Girls and SPSFC logos on a starry background (a spiral galaxy imaged by JWST). The books are: - Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles - The Girl in the Tomb by Thomas Knapp - The Cataphract Oath by Marc Edmond Best - Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null - The Quantum Entanglement by Aaron Benmark - Run Like Hell by Eira Brand - The Seeds of Dissolution by William C. Tracy

Team Space Girls of #SPSFC #SPSFC5 is announcing our Quarterfinalists!

Some really cool books in this first round. Congrats to these authors, and thank you to all authors for sharing their novels with us! #BookSky #scifi

Man, Invisible Cities is a perfect book. Read it in one sitting, and was physically buzzing by the end.

Masterful work. An instant favorite.

I've edited extensively and incorporated feedback from one round of critique partners already.

Yes! My plan is to send beta copies in a week!

Largely yes!

Line editing today, getting ready to send Sins of the Palatine to beta readers.

Do you find line editing to be meditative or exhausting?

Sometimes both for me!

Shout out to the #SPSFC, which I am competing in this year! My debut novel, The Quantum Entanglement is available on Amazon and in the running!

Very cool contest, good luck to all the competitors.

My second novel, Sins of the Palatine, a Roman historical fantasy, will be on sale later this year!

I guess I'll leave with a little French poem that has always spoke to me.
"Our Father, who art in heaven, stay there. And we'll stay here on Earth, which is sometimes so pretty."
Here's to staying here as long as we can.

It's also miraculous just how long life can be. I've lived a long time now, but it's only half done (if I'm lucky anyway). I have a long way to go; many miracles to come.

At 30, I stopped having FOMO. At 40, I think I've stopped having Fear of Disappointing Others (FODO).
I am who I am, and that's all I want to be.

At 40, you have no more excuses. If you haven't tacked towards your own truth by that age, you may never find it. The expectations, social pressures, identities imposed on you from the outside...those really should start feeling meaningless by now.

I think the big thing I'm reflecting on today is living intentionally and truly. Finding your identity and cleaving to that as closely as possible.

Well, I'm 40 today. Feels like it deserves some level of self-reflection.
All the cliche thoughts are there. How did this happen; how am I so old, oh god, oh no, why does my back hurt, etc. Those are boring though.

Critique partner feedback. I asked for development focus from this round.

Still adding to my beta reader list yes!

Diving into revisions on my next book, Sins of the Palatine. Got great critique partner feedback and very excited to execute on it!

Look out for more info on that as the year goes on.

It's some good ole' fashioned fantasy/mythology set in Ancient Rome. I can't wait to share it with the world!

My good friend DonJonVonovich has released the first chapter of his new web serial, The King of MO!

Check it out here! kingofmo.com

Follow DJV and Kyle on an autobiographical multiversal adventure centered on the Hotel Chelsea in New York.

I was privileged to serve as editor on this project.

Whoops, typo. Meant the celtics over the hawks. I went back and forth on that for a while.

Nba playoff predictions.

Thunder over Kings
Clippers over Nuggets
Lakers over Twolves
Warriors over Rockets

Cavs over Magic
Pacers over Bucks
Knicks over Pistons
Celtics over Magic

Okc over Lac
Gsw over Lal

Cle over Ind
Bos over Nyk

Okc over Gsw
Cle over Bos

Okc over Cle

R/Fantasy 2025 Novels Reaction YouTube video by Fun House

Some thoughts on the r/fantasy Best Novels 2025 list. youtu.be/LsQko12BIz0

Malazan Book of the Fallen Review and Recap YouTube video by Fun House

Made a video exploring my thoughts on Malazan. Starts spoiler free and goes to spoilers in the second half.

youtu.be/WQzPrpZQ-gg?...

Finished Malazan Book of the Fallen today. What a wild ride. #witness

From the Fantasy community on Reddit: r/Fantasy Top Novels 2025: Results! Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community

Some really interesting changes on the r/fantasy best novels list this year, including a Sanderson bloodbath. I've read something from 18 of the top 20 series. If my reading plan for this tear goes well, I'll have tried 23 of the top 25 by the end of the year. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Found a new instant classic novel today. Glorious Exploits. One of the best I've ever read. I read the entire thing in a single day.

Please check it out. It's marvelous!

Gather a modest horde of such hidden deceivers—those of middling intelligence and clever malice and avaricious ambition—and serious trouble was pretty much assured.

And fools could never succeed in holding on to it for very long, unless they were content as figureheads, in which case the power they held was an illusion.

These were the ones who hungered for power and more often than not succeeded in acquiring it. No genius would willingly accept true power, of course, in full knowledge of its deadly invitations.

The true danger, Yedan Derryg understood, was to be found in the hidden deceivers—those who could play the fool yet possessed a kind of cunning that, while narrowly confined to the immediate satisfaction of their own position, proved of great skill in exploiting the stupid and the brilliant alike.

A far too prescient passage from Dust of Dreams...(in four posts)