Cozy-adjacent fantasy author
Wyngraf’s Valentine’s Day 2024 cozy fantasy issue is now out. It includes my story, “Mail Order Husband.” Silas is a dragon rancher who dreams of romance. But good men are hard to come by west of the Rift, and Silas’s personal ads in a newspaper back east have done nothing but annoy the editor… Goodreads…
Writing, playing TTRPGs, or just sipping tea and reading cozy fantasy are all better with some background music. I’ll keep updating this page as I find new playlists I like. Spotify has a ton of fantasy and cozy fantasy playlists, but I find a lot of them jarring. I prefer very mellow smooth instrumentals. Spotify…
When I was a teenager I had a record (yes, a physical LP) called Environments (New Concepts In Stereo Sound – Disc 4 – Ultimate Thunderstorm / Gentle Rain In A Pine Forest). I have very happy memories of sitting in my parents’ basement, having my mind blown by a book by Philip K. Dick…
2012-2013 was the brief, shining era of Slow TV. What was Slow TV? Take a long event, like a train ride from one town to another, or an 8-hour knitting competition. Air it in its entirely, either with gentle music accompaniment or color commentary. You’ve got a show that’s relaxing and easy to watch –…
Back in the bad old days of the early 20th century, queer fiction had to have an unhappy ending in order to get published. Much like the Hays Code required movie villains to get their comeuppance, there was an unspoken rule that homosexual characters needed to come to an unhappy end – and if they…
People don’t like messages in fiction, for some reason. They think they’re preachy and didactic. I disagree. I’ve always been fond of message-driven fiction. Some of it can be preachy and didactic, sure. But I’m thinking of stories where the messages are far subtler. Kurt Vonnegut’s Deadeye Dick, for example, showed 12-year-old me that a…
I’ll be 56 this February. Wow. I’m used to being the oldest one in the room. I hang out on a few Discord servers, and for some reason there are a lot of younger people on Discord. Maybe because it started out as a gaming platform? I’m not sure. It definitely reminds me of IRC…
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