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Author Archives: chrisryanwrites
A 9/11 Remembrance
I want to be clear. I didn’t lose someone on 9/11, but on Wednesday I was thinking of how it would feel today, all these years later, for someone who did. This poem was the answer that arrived. I hope … Continue reading
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What Everyone is Missing About Lanterns – We’ve been Columboed
For four episodes now, influencers and commentators and YouTube talking heads have been trashing Hal Jordan, saying he’s old, bitter, an asshole, a drunk. They are all wrong. Hal Jordan is not old, he’s experienced in a crucial way that … Continue reading
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Tagged #DC, #Green Lantern, #GreenLantern, #HalJordan, #JohnStewart, #lanterns, #movies, dc-comics
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In brightest day or darkest night, no IP challenge shall escape my sight…
This Sunday, Tell The Damn Story dives into LANTERNS and the challenges of writing IPs. Alex Simmons and I will explore respecting legacy and the harrowing dangers of taking authorial risks with an IP that’s made some big company profits … Continue reading
Posted in # thrillers, #adventure, #DC, #inspiration, #IPs, #lanterns, comics, fiction, JamesGunn, writing
Tagged #audio, #authorialrisks, #lanterns, #legacy, #writersconference, #writingIPs, #writingtips, #YouTube, podcast
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BOB AND GRACE
“Bob and Grace” offers light humor about current events. Continue reading
Posted in #comedy, #community, #dividedAmerica, #hardtruths, #humor, #president, America, comics, current-events, Humor, Iran war, politics, pop culture, Vice president, writing
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“It’s Alive!”
At long last, both the ebook AND the paperback versions of SOUL SCREAM ANTHOLOZINE issue 8 “Madness Takes Its Toll” are both available on Amazon.
Posted in # thrillers, #adventure, #humor, fiction, horror fiction, horror poetry, writing
Tagged #Amazon, #amwriting, #books, #ebook, #getcaughtreading, #horror, #IndieAuthor, #IndiePub, #Kindle, #publishing, #selfpublishing, #Storytelling
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Soul Screaming, A weekly newsletter about adventures in authoring
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? … Continue reading
Posted in # thrillers, #adventure, #AmericanSpirit, #amwriting, #comedy, #community, #dogs, #humor, #inspiration, #NonFiction, #productivity, #reading, Book lovers, book recommendations, ebook publishing, fiction, horror fiction, horror poetry, Humor, independent publishing, pop culture, writing
Tagged #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #books, #publishing, #pulp, #Storytelling, #writerslife, #writingtips, fantasy, fiction, poetry, writing
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Soul Screaming Pop Culture: Lanterns is all slight-of-hand – darker truths about everything from apple shooting, to strip bars, to nine months ruined, to that Huxtables reference
Lanterns, episode 3 challenges the audience to pay attention in ways we may not be used to no matter who we are. In service of a superhero story, we are asked to wrestle with questions about what makes a hero, … Continue reading
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Tagged #DC, #lanterns, #GreenLantern, #HalJordan, #HBO, #JohnStewart
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SOUL SCREAM ANTHOLOZINE ISSUE 8, MADNESS TAKES ITS TOLL exists!
Finally, both the ebook and paperback formats have been approved by Amazon.
Our annual summer issue is just making it into the last rays of the season! Happily, the stories and poems and panel and essay features are all outstanding.
Ebook available now – $2.99 through Labor Day
Paperback available 09/03
Posted in # thrillers, #adventure, #amwriting, #comedy, #community, #humor, #NonFiction, #reading, Bobby Nash, Book lovers, book recommendations, digital publishing, ebook publishing, fantasy, fiction, horror fiction, horror poetry, Humor, independent publishing, poetry, pop culture, self-publishing, writing
Tagged #Amazon, #amreading, #amwriting, #BookBuzzr, #books, #comedy, #DarkFantasy, #ebook, #ePubChat, #essay, #features, #getcaughtreading, #horror, #IndieAuthor, #IndiePub, #Kindle, #laborday, #NonFiction, #panel, #paperback, #Paranormal, #publishing, #ScienceFiction, #selfpublishing, #ShortStory, #Storytelling, #summerissue, #Suspense, #womenwriters, fiction, poetry
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Lanterns, Episode 2 is a Beautiful Buffet…with a Tom King turd as a center piece
Props where they are due—Lanterns, episode 2 is a feast for fanboys, a delicious development of the detective plot, an exquisite expansion of the show’s super-hero elements, and a wonder of world building. And all of that splendor gets slightly … Continue reading
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