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Keeping the ad-hoc energy in updates but talked for a lot longer! If you don’t want to listen to me ramble, here’s some show notes:

0:00 - It starts here, as is tradition0:30 - A reintroduction to the Monthly Updates1:03 - What happened in June?

* Weekly Exercises have continued on Tuesdays in The Writing Gym!

* I’ve been publishing longer fiction every other Friday in The Volume!

* Brood (June 7) - I talk about Brood at 3:03

* 4:25 - Shout out to Leigh Parrish with whom I discussed drafting strategies and how I applied them (painfully) to this story.

* The Call (June 21) - I talk about The Call at 5:25

* This story is sneaking up on the coveted spot as my most popular story on Gibberish. At the time of writing, Father and Sun has 73 likes, The Call has 70. Thank you, everyone, for all the love on BOTH of these stories (and all my writing!)

* 6:50 - Shouts out to Macabre Monday and Sep-ul-chral Roots (sound it out, scoot)

* 9:00 - stiiiiilllll talkin, good grief. Get it together.

* 9:55 - June was a two-episode month for Letters from Armin!

11:18 - Let’s talk about Collaborations!

* Did you know I do voice work? Check out my shingle!

* The most recent (and most highly produced) example of my voicework is a collaboration with Chantal LaFortune and Thérèse Judeana at a publication called Aestheté: A presentation of GK Chesterton’s “The Ballad of the White Horse”.

* 14:09 - Brother Alexander (you may remember him from a guest story he published at Gibberish last summer) connected me to his friend Call of the Shieldmaiden, who runs a literary magazine called Corncrake

* Corncrake July Issue publishes today, July 1!

* I have submitted something for their August issue!

* This is a GREAT opportunity for fiction writers to reach new audiences and bring readers to Substack.

18:05 - Let’s talk about DRAFTS!

* July 5th, Part 2 of the limited serial which began with Help (I hope!)

* July 19th, Alt History Fantasy/Horror? Lots of work to do on this too!

* Serial Coming Soon???? It will be about Byron the Blackpage!

21:09 - “What am I Who are you reading?” 🎤

* Bridget Riley’s Down in the Holler concluded this past weekend, I need to catch up!

* Shouts out to Michael S. Atkinson who riffs wonderfully on my Tuesday writing exercises. (I also learned this morning that it’s his birthday! Happy Birthday, Michael!)

* Once I get Down in the Holler down, I’ll be looking at S.E. Reid’s Freelance and Fishmaids!

* Because I was riffing off the top of my head, I unjustly left off The Casual Writer and her surprise serial, Uprooted, which has been really interesting and really fun! Worth checking out if you are interested in mystery, family trees, or old leather-bound books smelling of rich mahogany.

23:22 - I wave my piece of paper in the microphone23:30 - It’s over, just a technicality at this point. I’m bad at ending podcasts.23:59 - The End!

Thank you for being here for Gibberish!

God bless!

AJPM

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