If you want to read interviews with various indie authors, I post them regularly on my newsletter.
I could also post lil advice columns sometimes if anyone wants to DM me a question. I know nothing, but I like to meddle.
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A2Pulp interviewed me about my novel The Idiot’s Garden. I discuss the world of TIG, the language that creates it, perception, and the agony of perfect sympathy.
pulp.aadl.org/node/664636
Something to read over the holidays. Based on a true story.
Tomorrow on ergot.: a new view into some hot documents with Kyle Miller @kymiller.bsky.social
Painted Rocks Parker Wilson a photo of the author in his eagle scout uniform is graffitied over with an alligator's head in place of his own. kithbooks.com
Big booms caught in their ears. Smooth curves of the bluffs called the boys' own. What would it take to touch that wet rock, to swim with a wave into the hollowed-out holes near the lake's surface? The waves pushed into the burrowed-out holes in the sandstone and swished around, burrowing further, announcing the hallowed roars of crashing lake water. It was a cavernous sound, like bells buried underground, shaking up through the earth beneath their feet. kithbooks.com
"Big booms caught in their ears. Smooth curves of the bluffs called the boys' own. What would it take to touch that wet rock, to swim with a wave into the hollowed-out holes near the lake's surface?"
- Parker Wilson, Painted Rocks
kithbooks.com/shop/p/paintedrocks
It’s been a little while since I’ve read it, but I think it’s intentional. A condemnation rather than an exploitation.
My cli-fi novel The Idiot’s Garden is an appropriate gift for everyone on your list: readers, gardeners, idiots, snails, philosophers of biology, posthumanists, queers, and cats. Here’s a look inside:
First short piece in a long time, at the exquisite Keep Planning
I interview writers on my newsletter, and I love interviewing strangers! Contact me if you'd like to be interviewed sometime. Even/especially if you're relatively new to writing or publishing.
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Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter], 1903
Don’t be a fool - get into the Garden before you’re left at the gate.
Signed copies available.
Or: a.co/d/1p6s5jA
Had a lovely chat with Ivy Grimes about The Idiot’s Garden
The Idiot’s Garden has been out for a week. Here’s a playlist to get you in the mood, or to keep you there long after the last page is turned.
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I’ll conjure soil; you plant something wonderful or terrifying
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My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, is now available. Read the book @horrorsong.blog says will leave you “surprised, delighted, baffled, moved to tears.”
If you’re boycotting Amazon, I’ll have author copies for sale.
dumbopress.com/titles/38
My chimera of a novel, The Idiot’s Garden, arrives this Saturday, a book @ivygrimes.bsky.social called “incredibly strange and beautiful.” Read the prologue now for a tease:
dumbopress.com/short-storie...
Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!
Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html
Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
The book is coming.
Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!
Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg
Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Pan holding his pipes with a well-dressed woman in the background.
‘“The worship of Pan never has died out,’ said Mortimer. ‘Other newer gods have drawn aside his votaries from time to time, but he is the Nature-God to whom all must come back at last.”’— Saki, ‘The Music on the Hill’ (1911)
My upcoming novel fits the bill. Available soon
youtu.be/0KhqHYfp9g0
This week: “The Wrong Light Brought Me Out,” a queer cosmic horror piece published by @hexliterary.bsky.social. Appended: a video of me reading the piece at Ypsilanti’s Dreamland Theater some unremembered amount of time ago.
hexliterary.com?p=2587
Next: illness and mystery in prosimetrum, “Mixed State” in Scrawl Place. My interest in hybridity begins to mature.
scrawlplace.com/2025/03/13/m...
“Exegesis of Canned Tuna,” in Propagule issue 4, inspired by real events.
www.propagule.co/fiction/exeg...
Next: “Hilarity,” in @bruisermag.com, that house of weird. I have very little memory of writing this; I don’t know what that implies.
www.bruisermag.com/miller_hilar...
In the weeks leading up to the release of my debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, I’m going to share some of my best work, starting with “The Interquaal,” from the lovely @ergot.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
My students are largely this way. I try to encourage wild behavior. Next semester, I’m going to give extra credit to any student who pranks or otherwise fucks with me.