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
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
Authors Outpost

On Author’s Outpost

Take even a passing look into the online newpub scene, and you'll find the X threads, Facebook groups, and YouTube chats abuzz with talk of Neopatronage. It's not hard to understand why. Those who've kept even cursory tabs on the state of publishing are aware of two indisputable facts: Amazon…
November 2, 2023
HollywoodInToto

Hollywood In Toto

The Neopatronage concept has been making waves lately. Thanks in large part to a number of high-profile crowdfunders that have buried the needle in newpub circles. Despite the 33% stagflation that's beset most Americans and the mid-October slump that plagues all crowdfunding campaigns, independent creators are finding patrons to back…
October 30, 20234 Comments
Newpub Neopatronage

Newpub: Neopatroange

The moment you try searching Amazon for a book you want to read, it becomes clear that something has gone quite wrong. Maybe it's vacant-eyed bugmen obsessed with fixing what's not broken throwing wrenches in the works. Perhaps it's cynical pens-for-hire hijacking the algorithm with payola. Or maybe it's outright…
September 28, 20234 Comments
Angels and Demons

On Angels and Demons

Dionysian Thomist streamer Classical Theist continues his Mysteries of the Catholic Faith walkthrough with a solid primer on angels and demons. Where did these pure spiritual beings come from? How can we know they exist? And what are they, anyway? Explore these and more intriguing questions about the angels, archangels,…
July 26, 2023
CT Walkthrough

Mysteries of the Catholic Faith Part 1

Want to confound smug Reddit atheists? Interested in God's perfections for their own sake? Looking to give a better account of the joy that is within you? Today is your day, since Classical Theist has returned to walk you through the mysteries of the Catholic faith. Watch and learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3skOD6d-33U&t=30s…
June 5, 2023
Monastery

Return to the Monastery

The mech genre poses several pressing questions and challenges for creators - and that goes double for game devs. Allow ground-up mech construction, or minute modification of stock templates? Dumb fire-and-forget rockets, or Macross missile spam? Granular wargame strategy or white-knuckle dogfights? To answer these and other burning questions, Mildra…
May 31, 2023
Newpub Talk Z Strike

Return to Newpub Talk

A couple of high-profile boycott campaigns have captured Conservatives' attention lately. It's understandable that middle America would get jazzed about giving beer, sports, and retail megacorps what for, despite the effects being almost all symbolic. Since January of 2021, the realization has been growing among normal people that the system…
May 25, 20232 Comments