2024 Roundup & Welcome to 2025

I had planned to post this in December, like other people. Unlike those other people, I don’t have my life together, so… better late than never?

Table of Contents

• 2024 Roundup

• Links & Recommendations

• Writing News

• Where's Rolo?

• TV: Arcane season 2, Netflix. Flawed, yes. Too short, yes. Maybe it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But I loved every aspect of this show. This season will be lodged in my brain forever.

• TV: Silo season 2, AppleTV. Silo is back for another season, and I think they did a great job. The material felt a bit strained, and the pacing was off in places, but the production value was there, and the acting was strong as ever. I’m looking forward to season 3.

• Books: The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. A short book about a life spent writing. Beautifully written and comforting on the best and worst aspects of a creative pursuit.

• TV: FROM, SkyMax/NowTV. From the makers of LOST—finally! I stumbled on this show after seeing a random BlueSky post by Stephen King. And I LOVE it. Horror, lots of mysteries, great characters, and more questions than the writers could possibly answer—again, not everyone’s cup of tea, but I live for that kind of thing.

• Music: Walking After Midnight by Patsy Cline. This one’s been on my mind a lot lately.

• My fantasy story “Ten Thousand Years Walking the Godsroad” is now available in issue #2 of Trollbreath Magazine.

• My sci-fi story “Nelly’s World” is now free to read on the archives of Gamut Magazine.

• My fantasy story “Reflections on Discord” is now available in the Winter 2025 edition of The Colored Lens.

• I sold two new poems, including one on my birthday! I can’t announce which markets yet, but updates will come soon.