Publishing updates, August 2026
Two more acceptances, many more submissions
Chris Dodds
Staff engineer. Writer. I poke at things until they make sense.
Latest posts
Learning to sing
On always choosing nightmare mode then feeling bad about it.
Divergence
OK, so maybe people have a point about my 'tism.
Publishing updates, April 2026
First publication, some momentum
Making the Necessary Cuts interactive fragment
A so-called engineer builds an ambient interactive fiction piece to market his novella
Back piece done
The mosaic is finished. ~60 hours, Aug 2024 to Feb 2026.
Prediction markets are casinos (I checked)
Techbros claim they're printing money on Kalshi. I built a weather-trading bot, poked at the markets, and confirmed: it's a casino.
Won the 2026 Miami University Press Novella Prize
The thing I couldn't talk about
Publishing updates
Gaining some momentum
Longlisted for Fractured Lit's 2025 Elsewhere Prize
A piece I wrote got longlisted for Fractured Lit's Elsewhere Prize
Classic holiday cartoons
Why won't Charlie Brown die? And celebrating lesser known, but great alternatives
More adventures in publishing
In which I attempt to navigate the publishing maze.
Investigating Oklahoma's new medical cost transparency site
Playing with some light data science and figuring out it's all smoke and mirrors.
Fish Stick: Stateless Incident Management
Built an incident management bot for Slack. No database, no complexity, just what you need.
RageBlock
A Firefox extension for blocking rage inducing mainstream media
Showing Up & Goodbye WTFPod
Maron, Obama, and the decision to engage with the physical world again.
Selective pain
Pick your pain, learn your lesson.
Learning about publishing
How does this even work?
A me-shaped thing
Sorting out what holds when the world feels upside down
Hello World
First post on the new blog