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Soul Screaming

A weekly newsletter that today offers gifts for you In lieu of a newsletter this week, I humbly offer three gifts I hope you choose to enjoy over this holiday season: All the best to you and yours this holiday. … Continue reading

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Soul Screaming

Soul Screaming A weekly newsletter about writing fun stories while the world gets weirder America feels sort of like Charlie Brown right now, reluctant to run and kick that football that Government Lucy is holding the Epstein football in position. … Continue reading

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Soul Screaming #7

A weekly newsletter by perhaps the world’s oldest emerging author by Christopher Ryan “Be curious, not judgmental.” – Ted Lasso Is there any pop culture quote that seems more anachronistic these days? So much of what is happening in our … Continue reading

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SOUL SCREAMING: A Weekly Newsletter by Perhaps the World’s Oldest Emerging Author

By Christopher Ryan It has taken a ridiculously long time to decide how to go about writing this newsletter. I used every excuse and considered a kaleidoscope of possible formats and content that ate up years. Yeah, years. Procrastination, anyone? … Continue reading

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January 3, 2023 – Fussing Comes to an End and a Project is Complete

by Christopher Ryan I should have been editing Soul Scream. Or completing the uploading of Genius High. But opportunity called and I dove back in to … poetry. Dark horror crime poetry about the most modern of monsters. And I … Continue reading

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Music Monday – Wandering YouTube Yields a Moving Tom Petty Documentary

by Christopher Ryan It had been a long day working on final fussing over a narrative horror poetry collection, planning the final forms of a horror fiction series, wrestling with publishing schedules for those and two novel reboots, and discussing … Continue reading

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Jan. 2, 2023 – Making Wee Hours Wandering More Productive

By Christopher Ryan Occasionally, I awake in the wee hours, brain alive with thoughts that need immediate address (“Get Cheerios! Rewrite that chapter! Hey, let’s see what the bathroom looks like.”). Usually, this results in meandering around before discovering my … Continue reading

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Jan. 1, 2023 – a Pause Before Leaping (and a Cover Reveal!)

Today isn’t a new beginning, nor is it the turning of a page. I have been planning all this for a long time. What I am about attempt is to spend 2023 doing is neither guaranteed to work nor a … Continue reading

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Satanic Panic Novel Feels Timely in Our Divisive Times

by Christopher Ryan Clay McLeod Chapman is currently on what looks like a fun book tour for Ghost Eaters and more power to him. While that intriguing book is on the ever-growing TBR list, his 2021 novel Whisper Down the … Continue reading

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Bono and The Idea of America

by Christopher Ryan U2’s Bono spoke at the 23rd annual New Yorker Festival last night. Well, first he riled up the crowd, and sang, and recited new poetry, and sang some more. And then he ignited my soul. During his … Continue reading

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