Better Art

To Save the West, Make Better Art

By now anyone who's not trapped in an epistemic closure bubble is aware of two facts: The West is caught in a death spiral toward a new Dark Age Voting harder won't pull us out of it. Yet despite the severity of the crisis, nothing is being done about it…
November 21, 202310 Comments
Spear

Work-a-Weapon 3

  I told you that Work-a-Weapon 3 would rock your world. But you didn't believe me. WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME   About WaW 3 From Dorrinal: Spear or harpoon, force of nature, atavistic. The Spearhead (the actual relic; its haft is unimportant and has been changed many times over…
November 20, 20237 Comments
WaW 2

Work-a-Weapon 2

If you've been following our whirlwind Neopatronage campaign, you know that the Work-a-Weapon perk gives you the chance to commission your own living item for The Burned Book! The first worked weapon turned heads. Now feast your eyes on WaW 2:   Soul Razor, the Magian Saber From the backer: This legendary saber manifests…
November 17, 2023
Ouija Nope

Ouija Nope

Today's tale of high strangeness once again comes from Doc Strangelove on X. And this time, it's cautionary. Ok so in my old unit we had one of our guys decide to do a ouija board for Halloween. Everyone in our squad except another guy said no thanks. The night…
November 16, 20232 Comments
Foundation Father

Foundation Father

My whirlwind tour of the newpub podcast scene continues as I stop by to chat with M.A. Franklin on his Foundation Father Twitter Space. He's an up-and-coming newpub author who's Kickstarting a children's book, and he's good people. Listen as we discuss newpub, Neopatronage, and the Witch Test. Catch the…
November 15, 2023
Geek Gab

SLC Geek!

Last night, friends of the blog Daddy Warpig and Dorrinal invited me back on the venerable Geek Gab livestream. It had been a while since we'd last gotten together for a lively chat about pop culture subjects, so I was glad for the invite. The hosts, the live chat and…
November 14, 2023
Henry IV at Canossa

Politics Is Downstream From Religion

The epic prelude to my acclaimed Soul Cycle is funding now. Get the book early, choose from a wide assortment of exclusive rewards, and help us hit the Interior Map Art stretch goal. Pledge now. A wise man once said that when the same idea is attacked from opposite sides…
November 13, 20234 Comments
Work-a-Weapon 1

Work-a-Weapon 1

Having read author JD Cowan's post about the back-to-back paradigm shifts that have upended legacy publishing, it occurred to me that most of the discussion surrounding previous book industry revolutions focused on authors and publishers. Lost in all the controversy was any thought of how the fall of oldpub -…
November 10, 202311 Comments
RetroStream

On the RetroStream

The Burned Book has reached Stretch Goal 4! Choose from several sweet perks and get your backers-only invite to the author reading livestream! Pledge now. A conspicuous feature of post-WWII pop culture is that every generation that came up during the postwar boom times adopted its own language based on…
November 9, 2023
Young Priests

Antibodies of Christ

Heads up: The Burned Book is on the cusp of reaching Stretch Goal 4. Get a bunch of cool perks, and get your backers-only invite to the author reading livestream when we hit $5000. Don't miss out! Pledge now. One fact that is as true of spiritual maladies as physical…
November 8, 20235 Comments