Welcome to Broadside

Do you sometimes worry the end is nigh? Are you watching The Algorithm turn your brain to Swiss cheese, while ordering crackers to go with it on Prime? Do you sometimes dream about walking away from the system (and maybe into the ocean?)

Welcome to Broadside.

Weekly essays about the magic and mayhem of the attention economy. Perspectives on the intersection of culture, industry, and identity, and how the machinery of the modern market shapes art.

Mostly I bang on about things like…

• The Homogenization of Creativity: How industrial forces make art and brains smooth, why that’s currently happening really fast, and why we can’t decide if it’s the end of the world or not.

• The AI Slop-pocalypse: Why some people don’t care about AI, why it’s coming for neurotypicals first, and the difference between “AI slop” and “slop slop.”

• Trope and Genre Pathology: Why BookTok isn’t the end of literature (I’m pretty sure?), why media is all the same now, why “Enemies to lovers” won’t fucking die, and why most “morally grey” characters are actually just beige.

• Art as Performance: Pen names as drag, romantasy vs. punk, the five-star rating system gets two thumbs down, and reading is now a spectator sport.

• Other Bits and Pieces: The privilege of not being on social media, the problem with art is the problem with everything, and a rising tide doesn’t actually lift all boats.

When you join as a free subscriber, you’ll receive:

• 3 short essays per month.

• 1 exclusive subscribers-only post per month, with book/film/music/time-wasting recommendations, updates, ARC opportunities, my travelogue, and pictures of my dog.

• A free sneak peek at my latest book, Mother & Slaughter.

Speculative fiction author & literal hermit.

I’m best known for my satirical urban fantasy, Dot Slash Magic, and for my viral comedy videos dissecting tropes and genres in popular fiction.

Why should you listen to me?

Oh, you definitely shouldn’t.

But if you want credentials for my writing chops: Dot Slash Magic — about the friction between art and artificial intelligence — received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and my upcoming fantasy satire Mother & Slaughter was a BookLife Editor’s Pick and the Next Generation Indie Book Award winner in Fantasy for 2026. It has received must-read reviews from Kirkus, MidWest Book Review, and Reedsy.

If you want credentials for my understanding of things like The Algorithm, social media, marketing fiction, or what it’s like to be a creator on the internet, take a look at any of my social media profiles, or the difference between my very lucrative trope-filled smutty romance, and my un-lucrative critically-acclaimed speculative fiction.

Read more on the About page.

When you become a free subscriber to Broadside, you’ll get 3 short essays per month, plus an exclusive subscribers-only update about whatever I’m obsessed with right now, what I’ve been working on, my travelogue, and pictures of my dog 🐶 You’ll also get a free sneak peak at my latest book Mother & Slaughter, plus opportunities to get exclusive early access to works-in-progress and upcoming books.

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