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  • Maybe Give These A Miss: Dubious Goods for Dubious Futures.

    Catalogue #1 in our Proud Partnership Programme with Bardic Planet. Here at Dubious Derivatives™ Limited, your wellbeing is our… third priority. (Right behind profit margins and plausible deniability.) Still, we know that being a protagonist is hard work—what with all the reincarnations, cursed contracts, and suspiciously convenient power-ups. That’s why, in a proud partnership with…

  • EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: A Pioneer’s Blood. By Fiavolun Tastua.

    “Space may be infinite, but A Pioneer’s Blood makes it feel like four walls closing in—and that’s the thrill.” Core Premise & Initial Impression: Space. The Final Frontier. Final—not because there’s nowhere left to go, but because space itself would rather like to kill you. At least that’s true in the latest serial novel Bardic…

  • Buying the Blue-Covered Beauty: How I Fell in Love with The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing

    A true blue reader falls in love with the book they want to read. Here’s how I fell in love with The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, by the Editors of Writer’s Digest. Essay #2 – Buying the Book Hello again, my lovelies. I’ve received such a great response for posting my first Essay on…

  • First Impressions: Galaxy of Gods by TJJones.

    “Turns out, when gods get bored of eternity, they don’t take up golf—they isekai themselves into a galactic war.” Core Premise & Initial Impression. Galaxy of Gods is a book that I read. It has words… English words. Though if you translated it, it’d be in that language, I guess. It has characters and stuff.…

  • EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotional Incompetent. By Daniel Newwyn.

    “Magic runs on emotions. Fabrisse runs on pure, undiluted embarrassment.” Core Premise & Initial Impression: Take a young man, and shoot him up with heavy doses of pathetic. And I don’t mean street stuff: the pitifulness of an unheedful galoot, fumbling on the floor, glasses knocked from his head having strolled—with purpose—into a lamppost while…

  • Step-By-Step Guide To Becoming The Protagonist

    We’re all the main characters in our own lives. Only you can live your story. When you passed off that loud gas as squeaky trousers— All you, buddy. When you asked your crush out and the whole school laughed? Probably shouldn’t have cried, but you still commanded centre stage. Even now, while you’re reading instead…

  • First Impressions: What The Gods Left Behind by Zephyr Trillian

    “The gods left their toys behind. The mortals are still figuring out which end goes boom.” Core Premise & Initial Impressions: What The Gods Left Behind bills itself as an epic fantasy novel. “Epic” is about as accurate as it gets. Right from the prologue, the author serves up a sweeping creation myth—presented as the…

  • First Impressions: The Pictomancer by Night Prince.

    “He died for art. But that won’t stop his vision” Core Premise & Initial Impression. The Pictomancer is a LitRPG unlike any you’ve ever read before. Unless you’ve actually read one before— Then yeah. Then it’s just like that. Across the twenty-two chapters I’ve read, it rarely strays from the genre’s staples. With one notable…

  • Write It Ugly: What The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing Taught Me

    (A self-help book published by the editors of Writer’s Digest.) “Always begin with your protagonist. Establish time and place, and announce the stakes.”— N. M. Kelby, self-help author of The Constant Art of Being a Writer “Sometimes one can overanalyze. If you preordain, you stifle yourself. Have a general idea, and let the rest come naturally,…

  • Full Verse Review: Heartworm by Lack Of Poochline

    I’ll just come out and say it—Heartworm is weird. And I don’t mean “kinda weird.” I mean the strain of weird that stares a little too long on the bus when you glance up and feel it lingering. The weird that locks eyes but doesn’t blink. The bus is still. No sound. That weird old…