Thanks for your patience in waiting for the new essay, reader. To reward you (and celebrate the birthday of someone close to me) please treat yourself to your copy of… Read more An Analysis of the Alchemical Tradition Behind BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, Part VI: Tzadkiel and the Mystery of Yesod →
No, reader, still no new essay: that will be July 2nd, 2018, and trust me, you’ll be glad I held it back, because then you will remember that The Lightning Stenography Device, which you didn’t buy last time it was on sale, will be on sale again from July 2nd through July 6th. For five days you will be able to snag 2018’s most psychedelic novel for $0.99, which is pretty phenomenal but not that great a deal since the people who purchase hardback and paperback copies will be getting… Read more DISGRACED MARTYR TRILOGY PUBLICATION DATE →
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Because I want to make the Urth of the New Sun essay as excellent and thorough as it can possibly be, the next essay will not be posted until more toward the middle of June: I will be out of town for almost two weeks and will not have access to my resources, and as I am in the middle of editing the second novel of The Disgraced Martyr Trilogy and writing the first draft of a new novel yet to be named, I don’t have the time to get… Read more Out of Town, No New Essay →
Yes, readers, it’s M. F. Sullivan’s birthday. What better day of the year to purchase your copy of THE LIGHTNING STENOGRAPHY DEVICE? Get it on Amazon today! The first marketable thought to text device is released for public consumption in 2031. That same year, author Cassius Wagner will have a seizure. At least, that is what the novel says: the novel to which he awakens in fragments one morning after a late night of writing. This novel. Terrified to have a prophetic manuscript unfurling at his heels, his desperation to… Read more Happy Birthday To Me, Buy Your LSD →
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Hello, readers. As you may or may not be aware, essays are lagging a little behind on their posting schedule. This is due to the fact that I have spent the past two weeks writing and polishing what is undeniably the best short story I have written to this point; now that it is finished, I am free to send it out to magazines, and free to get back to work on this essay. So: no, there wasn’t a new essay last Friday, and there might not be one this… Read more Woah, No New Essay? Is She Sick? Is She Dead? Does She Just Suck, Now? →
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