# writer part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover writer part. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Economics of Selling Books at Farmers’ Markets, Book Fairs, and Conferences](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-selling-books-at) _2026-08-15 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ ♫ Sometimes you sell lots of books. Sometimes you don't. ♬ ## [Past Cheats for Future Lessons](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/past-cheats-for-future-lessons) _2026-08-14 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ Friday Readers Update ## [The Odyssey for Writers Part 3](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-for-writers-part-3) _2026-08-07 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ I Quit ## [The Odyssey for Writers Part 2](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-for-writers-part-2) _2026-07-31 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ The Title Crawl ## [The Odyssey for Writers Part I](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-for-writers-part-i) _2026-07-24 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ The Clothes Line ## [A Knock in the Night](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/a-knock-in-the-night) _2026-07-21 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Ilyan didn’t hate many things, but being roused in the dead of night was indisputably one of them. ## [Achilles is not the Hero of The Iliad](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/achilles-is-not-the-hero-of-the-iliad) _2026-07-17 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ The Iliad for Writers Part 4 ## [No Arc in the Spear of Achilles](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/no-arc-in-the-spear-of-achillies) _2026-07-10 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ Part 3 of Writer's Notes from The Iliad ## [Homeric Epithets in The Iliad](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/homeric-epithets-in-the-iliad) _2026-07-03 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ The Iliad for Writers Part 2 ## [Classics, it turns out, are really enjoyable reads. Who knew?](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/classics-it-turns-out-are-really) _2026-06-30 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Besides Oliver DeMille, I guess. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QeqArHSZcOeq) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [A Thesaurus of Violence](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/a-thesaurus-of-violence) _2026-06-26 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ Lessons from The Iliad part one ## [Move Like Conan](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/move-like-conan) _2026-06-19 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ Solve Three Problems in One Move ## [Silence Your (de)Vice](https://roboteatingrobot.substack.com/p/silence-your-device) _2026-06-12 · Blake Armstrong · Friday Readers Club_ A short comic ## [A Time to Write, and a Time to Be Busy (May 2026 Update)](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/a-time-to-write-and-a-time-to-be) _2026-05-15 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Hello fans of clean fantasy! ## [Because Motivation Has to Be Hacked (March 2026 Update)](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/because-motivation-has-to-be-hacked) _2026-03-27 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Alpha readers (and accountability partners) wanted for "The Vivamancer's Song" ## [Book Review: “Dinotopia” and the power of implicit narratives](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/book-review-dinotopia-and-the-power) _2026-02-16 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Dinosaurs. Need I say more? ## [Do you have 2 minutes to do me a favor? (January 2026 Update)](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/do-you-have-2-minutes-to-do-me-a) _2026-01-29 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Help new readers discover "The Aquamancer's Secret" ## [2024–2025 in Review: 693 books sold, $505.91 net profit, and other data](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/600-books-sold-and-other-2025-data) _2026-01-24 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ A glimpse into the sales and finances of a self-published debut fantasy author ## [Book Review: “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry,” by John Mark Comer](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/the-ruthless-elimination-of-hurry) _2026-01-16 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ This book by John Mark Comer is the wake-up call I needed to reevaluate not just the pace, but the entire structure of my life. ## [The Presence](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/the-presence) _2026-01-04 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ So, where do these souls go? ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QHAuhsO6CwRE) _2026-01-04 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [What each of my characters would give you for Christmas, Part 2](https://jeremypmadsen.substack.com/p/what-each-of-my-characters-would) _2025-12-18 · Jeremy P. Madsen · Jeremy P. Madsen - Championing Clean Fantasy_ Featuring Taliana, Ilyan, Bjorn, and (of course) Twigly again ## [diaries, uninterrupted #3](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/diaries-uninterrupted-3) _2025-04-02 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. Last night I couldn’t sleep, so for some time I stared at the blank ceiling, blank only because I know it is blank, as it was the middle of the night, a moonless night, with no other light filtering in from the shutters, and it was pitch black, and while staring at the blank ceiling, I fantasized about a couple entertaining an epistolary relationship, except instead of… ## [Unsent Letters #38](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/unsent-letters-38) _2025-03-27 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ The Letter ## [diaries, uninterrupted #2](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/diaries-uninterrupted-2) _2025-03-13 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ Thursday, March 13, 2025. There are people who never think about the vastness of the universe and how every single one of us is but a speck of dust whose life lasts a fraction of a cosmic nanosecond, or rather: I don’t really know whether these people exist, who am I after all to have certainty of anything like that, what I wanted to say is more in the tone of ## [Unsent Letters #37](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/unsent-letters-37) _2025-03-06 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ The Light ## [A Better Writer -- Part III](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/a-better-writer-part-iii) _2025-02-26 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ Between Levity and Gravitas ## [diaries, uninterrupted #1](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/diaries-uninterrupted-1) _2025-02-19 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ Wednesday, February 19th, 2025. She hung up on me, suddenly, while I was in the middle of one of my rare arguments, as I don’t like to argue, not because I don’t think I’d be effective, although there might be a little of that component too, but because I don’t believe in making others change their minds, I don’t believe in persuasion, and I think it’s true what Frank Zappa once said, I forget… ## [Unsent Letters #36](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/unsent-letters-36) _2025-02-12 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ Parallelisms ## [A Better Writer -- Part II](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/a-better-writer-part-ii) _2025-02-05 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ The literary critique ## [AI QA That Opens Fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NFZ7IsU3cUuZ) _2025-02-05 · **Sponsored**_ Runs browser QA, files issues with repro evidence, and opens fix PRs. ## [Unsent Letters #35](https://silviocastelletti.substack.com/p/unsent-letters-35) _2025-01-29 · Silvio Castelletti · Not Quite Real_ The subway