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Dark Lotus Books entry from Substack
Back in the day, IOW when I was a raw kid of 20, I took a short break from college and decided to attempt to write a novel. In six weeks through a mist of cigarette smoke and a concoction of caffeine and canned chili, I cranked out a science fiction story of 80,000 words. The first few pages were not bad, I thought and I still think, which was good news since I had never written any fiction before that in my short life. I called it Maalstrom, deliberately misspelling maelstrom while imparting the same meaning of that word. I think I stumbled...
read moreJust Woo is Marginalised?
The Vanishing White Male Writer SFWA / Worldcon Banning White Male authors Click here for Jon Del Arroz’s active take on the spread of the Woke Plague in sci-fi publishing Click to see my email exchange with a Woke publishing insider who defends NY publishers’ policy of banning white male...
read moreWho Needs Woo?
I have decided as an experiment to remove all payment systems from Equus due to being more trouble than they are worth, especially in view of the fact that all Equus books are listed for sale on Amazon n Ingram. So why should I keep bothering to maintain the Woo installations? They are unnecessary n just make this site vulnerable to bots that seek out Woo plugins. Whoever wants to buy an Equus book will have to go to Amazon and buy them there.
read moreSkills from former times that youth would do well to acquire
Skills I have that people born after 1990 may not have: Thinking n studying before embracing an opinion. Memorization techniques. Longhand. Shorthand. Typing. Reading at least one foreign language – n I don’t mean Spanish. Reading a book a week. Reading from an actual paper book instead of a screen (I can tear them, write in them, even drop them in water n they’re still good). Being patient, not reacting with anger when not happy with events. Being polite to cops. Acknowledging the existence of Other People n their rights...
read moreDispute on X Post Over Easter
Very amusing for the flamers out there: I recently posted a simple short post on X on Easter day to the effect that Easter was a pagan holiday usurped by Christians. Seemed a simple statement of fact to me, easily proven by ancient documents n authorities on myth n religion. However, a few Christians (here Xers for short) decided to take offense at my minor observation n launch a flame war against Equus. Nothing better to do with their time, I suppose. Last count on that post: 49,000 views; 18 likes (mostly pagans I’m sure); 8 shares; n...
read moreCommentary On Today’s Publishers – Feminists Seize Publishing, by Harold Covington
This is a partial reprint for editorial and review purposes of H. Covington’s article. It is dated but still highly relevant to today’s publishing. Read the full article here: https://heretical.com/miscella/cpublish.html Feminists Seize Publishing Harold Covington I have a couple of interesting personal observations to indicate which vicious little minority seems to be winning the culture wars within the left-wing elitist establishment, at least since the Clintons took power. As some of you know, I also write fiction, and as a...
read moreDon’t Use Stripe – Anti-white, Anti-male, Very Very Woke
Communication from Odysee. Many pro-American sites have been placed on a blacklist of payment processors, unable to locate a single one that will service them. This is what monopoly looks like as most payment processors are actually owned by a very few globalist banks. – – – Dear Odysee Stripe User, Payment processing services are currently inactive. Stripe had previously assured us that they understood our situation, confirmed our account was in good standing, and said they would continue to support us during our transition...
read moreTemple of the Double Sun published
My latest sci-fi novel, Temple of the Double Sun is now published by the noted sci-fi publisher TWB Press. I was first uncertain whether to call it a Prequel to the book Maalstrom, like The Selk King is the sequel. But at TWB’s suggestion I decided it was simpler just to call Temple “Book 1” and relabeling Maalstrom as “Book 2” and The Selk King “Book 3”. CLICK HERE FOR A KILLER VIDEO BY TWB PRESS FOR TEMPLE OF THE DOUBLE SUN! This novel tells the story of the original colonists fleeing from an Earth...
read moreThe Genociding of the American Male
A sad tale to post today. Reflecting on my past and the past of other men who are now my age as I recall them from the days of our youth, it is quite strange n amazing to me to see how many came to bad ends. drug addiction alcoholism dropping out poverty chronic unemployment divorce loneliness insanity suicide This is the tale of many of my erstwhile comrades whom I grew up with–all men–who seemed to have such bright futures when we were kids. One obtained a college degree, became a lawyer then a meth addict n died in his 40s....
read moreSci-fi Fiction Before Fact on EVs
Reading about today’s Electric Vehicles causing some drivers to become imprisoned inside when the electrical system fails is already familiar to me conceptually. From my novel JIHAD BUBBA, which I wrote back in 2020: – – – Bubba sighed. He popped the clutch [on his gas-driven jeep]. As he resumed driving, more Januses [EVs] crossed his path—in fact, were unavoidable wherever he drove. Several times he had to down-clutch to prevent collision with Januses reversing direction, turning in circles and tangling traffic, or...
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