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We are always taking inspiration from the art that came before us. It becomes part of our language before we’re even aware of it. Our tongues click through the words of Shakespeare without even thinking about it, and we dream in the visuals of film. It makes sense, then, that we’re always remixing art. People love retellings. Well, unless you call it an adaptation, and then they’ll trip over themselves to tell you why you’re wrong, anti-intellectual, and destroying art. Yikes

3 Twisted Takes on Children’s Play Few things are as tantalizing to people as corruption. You see it everywhere, from supposedly sexy Halloween costumes to Creepypasta takes on Disneyland. The popularity of coming-of-age stories fits into this pattern as well. After all, what’s the draw of those sorts of films and novels? It’s watching a young person’s innocence or naivete run into the jading, corrupting realities of adult life. For horror writers, this proves incredibly frui

My debut novel Batter's Box is officially scheduled to release on June 1st, 2026. I've been spending the past couple of weeks working on editing, making the cover, and crafting some marketing for it. My author copies are ordered. Everything is in the pitching machine, ready to fire over the plate. I'm walking up to the batter's box (lol), ready to swing. A little look behind the curtain here: June 1st fell into my lap as sort of a perfect date. I had originally planned to hav

It's been a few years since I've written a wholly new musical. Technically, the last one I finished was The Drummer Boy, back in like 2021/2022. I've gone back and made some major revisions to it, Memeical, and Three Wolves. I've written plenty of concepts and song snippets for other shows. I have some lyrics for a drag queen apocalypse show, some for a show about time pirates, a Disco Elysium-inspired adult fairytale noir, an adaptation of my adaptation of Medea, a Catholic

On the night of April 11th--a little before midnight, I believe--I finished the first draft of Batter's Box, my m/m rivals-to-lovers romance novel focused on two players in Minor League Baseball (currently called "Small League Baseball" in the novel, for some fun, slightly "off" world-building). I started writing Batter's Box back at the start of December 2025. Before then, it had never even crossed my mind to attempt writing romance. My past explorations in long-form prose w