It is essentially finished. I should be done with the final edits by the end of next week with a couple of scenes the need a rewrite. Out to query in May.

And thanks for the interest.

It’s Southern Gothic/Horror and A Coming of Age. And I know I should have narrowed it down

Revolution Medicines says its potential breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug succeeds in late-stage trial Revolution Medicines' drug for pancreatic cancer succeeded in a highly anticipated Phase 3 trial, the company said.

And more on the drug. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/p...

Oh, how difficult this scene was to write. It comes later in the story and it loomed for most of the time I was writing.

—from Your Pal Al, my first novel. I hope to have it ready to query next month.

#WIPSnips #heat

#SouthernGothic #Horror #WIP #amwriting #WriteSky #writingcommunity #AmEditing

Opinion | How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying

This drug sounds like a miracle. And thank God there is now hope for those afflicted with pancreatic cancer.

How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

Investigate Ron DeSantis, Randy Fine, others for Conspiracy to Commit Fraud Profiting from causing death is a crime

I just signed a petition: Investigate Ron DeSantis, Randy Fine, others for Conspiracy to Commit Fraud. Sign here:
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Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Just to be clear, there are currently two translunar travelers lounges - one is aboard the Artemis II. We're the other one, the SFF magazine open to submissions. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I made a mistake today. My wife is and always will be a slow walker. I told her about this article. 🥹

How We Walk Might Reveal Our Risk of Death How We Walk Might Reveal Our Risk of Death: Another good reminder to keep a pep in your step

Pick up the pace, lads!

How We Walk Might Reveal Our Risk of Death - nautil.us/how-we-walk-...

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

I guess I should have started an #AI thread this morning. On the bright side…
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... #WritingCommunity

Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book Publisher alleges AI research company’s chatbot violated its copyright over Coconut the Little Dragon series

More fun #AI news and, yes, it's about them stealing the property of authors. 99% of Billionaires are scum.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His 'Star Trek' Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern 'Trek' Given the 'Project Hail Mary' writer's past comments about his 'Star Trek' hopes, it's perhaps not hard to imagine why they were turned down.

I haven't seen any new ones, but got bored and mostly stopped watching mid-way through Voyager.

Now, it's because I refuse to give any money to the Ellison cabal. gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool At the very moment Trump’s rambling speeches and meme–fied inanity threaten to overwhelm us, fashion, music and film are moving in the opposite direction

Well, I'd say this is true for the zine-loving rebels among us but not so much for the saccharin-consuming, consumerism crowd that represents much of pop culture. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

The rare world of the ‘first edition’ Many moons ago, in the late 1980s, when my locks were black and my journalist’s uniform was jeans, joggers and a...

I went down a book buying rabbit hole this morning. Here's an interesting read about 1st editions. www.dawn.com/news/579253/...

Does anyone use findbookprices.com? The home page is acting wonky. It gives me an "Access denied" message but the site works if you navigate to a secondary page. What gives? #SellingBooks #ReadingCommunity

A preliminary sketch of Eyeball, the MC. He's a cemetery gargoyle and The Guardian of the Dead.

Here's one for the other WIP. It's MG hybrid book—part prose, part picture book and a whole lot of marginalia. It's awaiting my red pen of doom.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #MG

Update Your iPhone Now: 'DarkSword' Leak Puts Millions at Risk of Hacks Have you been dragging your feet on the update to iOS 26? You might want to do it now to fend off the 'DarkSword' attack targeting iPhones running older versions of Apple's mobile OS.

www.pcmag.com/news/update-...

Some have suggested getting a full body scan while you "think" are healthy as a baseline for when you aren't.

It would BUT as I said, I do worry how the insurance companies with try to use it. Our results are supposed to be private, but breeches occur daily. And companies like Palantir are actively scrubbing EVERYTHING to gather information on all of us. Scary times.

Listing of the Day Today's listing of the day is: Carmina Magazine #WritingCommunity

Today's listing of the day is: Carmina Magazine #WritingCommunity

Amen

Millions of CT scans are done every year – most leave important data behind Medical imaging contains a veritable wealth of information that is often missed. One way this can change is for patients to ask their doctors what more they can learn from their image results.

Millions of CT scans are done every year – most leave important data behind and I wonder how the insurance companies are using this information. theconversation.com/millions-of-...

Researchers develop biodegradable, plant-based packaging from natural fibers – new research From beetles to sustainable packaging – one failure in the lab led to a new line of promising research.

Researchers develop biodegradable, plant-based packaging from natural fibers. It is unclear from the article just how biodegradable this new substance is, nor does it talk about the byproducts produced. Still, it does sound promising. One step at a time. theconversation.com/researchers-...

A writing professor’s new task in the age of AI: Teaching students when to struggle How do instructors get students to trust their own thinking and be better than robots?

A writing professor’s new task in the age of AI: Teaching students when to struggle
theconversation.com/a-writing-pr...

With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page? Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice.

With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?
theconversation.com/with-ai-fini...

Trump’s Deputy AG makes SHOCKING REMARK…DEMS OUTRAGED!! YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports

JUST FILED: Former Republican Congressman - and House Jan 6 Select Committee investigator - Denver Riggleman uncorks some sobering warnings about the 45-day period after the MIDTERMS

Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNkT...