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Country Tides: Out Now

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Country Tides: Out Now

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Country Tides: Out Now

https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/country-tides-out-now/

Country Tides: Out Now

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Country Tides: Out Now

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I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m feeling extra exhausted today and wishing I could sleep for days without end, haha. On the plus side, one of my favorite bands, Dance Gavin Dance, released a new album! It’s their third Tree City Sessions release, a series of live studio albums where they revisit songs from their nearly two decades of making amazing music. I’ve been especially excited to hear their new singer’s take on some older songs (I love Andrew Wells and his work with Eidola). Well, I’m gonna do some story plotting before helping prepare dinner. We’re having Japanese-Style Chicken and Rice Curry today.

May your days be wonderful, your sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished be by Meraki’s unending flames,

~E.L.F.

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I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m feeling extra exhausted today and wishing I could sleep for days without end, haha. On the plus side, one of my favorite bands, Dance Gavin Dance, released a new album! It’s their third Tree City Sessions release, a series of live studio albums where they revisit songs from their nearly two decades of making amazing music. I’ve been especially excited to hear their new singer’s take on some older songs (I love Andrew Wells and his work with Eidola). Well, I’m gonna do some story plotting before helping prepare dinner. We’re having Japanese-Style Chicken and Rice Curry today.

May your days be wonderful, your sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished be by Meraki’s unending flames,

~E.L.F.

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I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m feeling extra exhausted today and wishing I could sleep for days without end, haha. On the plus side, one of my favorite bands, Dance Gavin Dance, released a new album! It’s their third Tree City Sessions release, a series of live studio albums where they revisit songs from their nearly two decades of making amazing music. I’ve been especially excited to hear their new singer’s take on some older songs (I love Andrew Wells and his work with Eidola). Well, I’m gonna do some story plotting before helping prepare dinner. We’re having Japanese-Style Chicken and Rice Curry today.

May your days be wonderful, your sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished be by Meraki’s unending flames,

~E.L.F.

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I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m feeling extra exhausted today and wishing I could sleep for days without end, haha. On the plus side, one of my favorite bands, Dance Gavin Dance, released a new album! It’s their third Tree City Sessions release, a series of live studio albums where they revisit songs from their nearly two decades of making amazing music. I’ve been especially excited to hear their new singer’s take on some older songs (I love Andrew Wells and his work with Eidola). Well, I’m gonna do some story plotting before helping prepare dinner. We’re having Japanese-Style Chicken and Rice Curry today.

May your days be wonderful, your sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished be by Meraki’s unending flames,

~E.L.F.

Explore books & socials: http://elflinks.weebly.com

Subscribe: http://evanderlfragoso.substack.com

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I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m feeling extra exhausted today and wishing I could sleep for days without end, haha. On the plus side, one of my favorite bands, Dance Gavin Dance, released a new album! It’s their third Tree City Sessions release, a series of live studio albums where they revisit songs from their nearly two decades of making amazing music. I’ve been especially excited to hear their new singer’s take on some older songs (I love Andrew Wells and his work with Eidola). Well, I’m gonna do some story plotting before helping prepare dinner. We’re having Japanese-Style Chicken and Rice Curry today.

May your days be wonderful, your sleep fulfilling, and creative spirit nourished be by Meraki’s unending flames,

~E.L.F.

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Subscribe: http://evanderlfragoso.substack.com

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Full of Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories

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Full of Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories

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Full of Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories

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The 36th novelette, " – so powerfully strong – ", continues, with a block party, and a concert, and a confession:

https://thecityofroses.com/story/SoPowerfullyStrongActIV

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9 Myths About Book Publicity That Are Holding You Back
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“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊
~E.L.F.
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“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊
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“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊
~E.L.F.
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“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊
~E.L.F.
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“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊
~E.L.F.
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Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: The Orb and the Airship by Jenelle Leanne Schmidt

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Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: The Orb and the Airship by Jenelle Leanne Schmidt

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I find it so difficult to figure out what to say in these posts, which is why I’ve had inconsistency issues in the past. Yes, being exhausted and stressed with the everyday struggle of survival doesn’t help, but that’s not everything. One thing my head keeps going back to is a simple idea that should help with these posts: “Just put out there what you’d like to see from other writers.” I guess one of my problems is I don’t tend to find myself hunting for tidbits from my favorites, so it makes me feel like I lack a basic framework for what I should be doing with social media when it comes to my writing.
It’s alright, I’ll keep at it and get better.
I am going to shoot for one to two posts a week (I know, that’s nothing when it comes to the wild world of social media), whether I just drop a couple of sentences to show that I’m still within the confines of this dimension, or I dive into something longer, like character lore, how my book ideas spawned, my big series plans, or how Vampire Hunter D is one of my favorite characters in fiction. For now, my plan is also to not have much behind my Substack subscription paywall, as I’m working hard to plot out a whole series while also wondering if I need to find a part-time job to give my strapped finances some sort of breathing room.
All that said, I’ve had some coffee, I’ve got some music going (Yama’s Versus the Night album at the moment), I think it’s time to shoot this blog post out into the void hoping it reaches my dear readers (present and future), and work on plotting Chapter 4 of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow Volume 3. Maybe I’ll have to talk more about that in the next post…
May your days be wonderful, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
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I find it so difficult to figure out what to say in these posts, which is why I’ve had inconsistency issues in the past. Yes, being exhausted and stressed with the everyday struggle of survival doesn’t help, but that’s not everything. One thing my head keeps going back to is a simple idea that should help with these posts: “Just put out there what you’d like to see from other writers.” I guess one of my problems is I don’t tend to find myself hunting for tidbits from my favorites, so it makes me feel like I lack a basic framework for what I should be doing with social media when it comes to my writing.
It’s alright, I’ll keep at it and get better.
I am going to shoot for one to two posts a week (I know, that’s nothing when it comes to the wild world of social media), whether I just drop a couple of sentences to show that I’m still within the confines of this dimension, or I dive into something longer, like character lore, how my book ideas spawned, my big series plans, or how Vampire Hunter D is one of my favorite characters in fiction. For now, my plan is also to not have much behind my Substack subscription paywall, as I’m working hard to plot out a whole series while also wondering if I need to find a part-time job to give my strapped finances some sort of breathing room.
All that said, I’ve had some coffee, I’ve got some music going (Yama’s Versus the Night album at the moment), I think it’s time to shoot this blog post out into the void hoping it reaches my dear readers (present and future), and work on plotting Chapter 4 of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow Volume 3. Maybe I’ll have to talk more about that in the next post…
May your days be wonderful, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
Explore books & socials: ELFlinks.Weebly.com
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I find it so difficult to figure out what to say in these posts, which is why I’ve had inconsistency issues in the past. Yes, being exhausted and stressed with the everyday struggle of survival doesn’t help, but that’s not everything. One thing my head keeps going back to is a simple idea that should help with these posts: “Just put out there what you’d like to see from other writers.” I guess one of my problems is I don’t tend to find myself hunting for tidbits from my favorites, so it makes me feel like I lack a basic framework for what I should be doing with social media when it comes to my writing.
It’s alright, I’ll keep at it and get better.
I am going to shoot for one to two posts a week (I know, that’s nothing when it comes to the wild world of social media), whether I just drop a couple of sentences to show that I’m still within the confines of this dimension, or I dive into something longer, like character lore, how my book ideas spawned, my big series plans, or how Vampire Hunter D is one of my favorite characters in fiction. For now, my plan is also to not have much behind my Substack subscription paywall, as I’m working hard to plot out a whole series while also wondering if I need to find a part-time job to give my strapped finances some sort of breathing room.
All that said, I’ve had some coffee, I’ve got some music going (Yama’s Versus the Night album at the moment), I think it’s time to shoot this blog post out into the void hoping it reaches my dear readers (present and future), and work on plotting Chapter 4 of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow Volume 3. Maybe I’ll have to talk more about that in the next post…
May your days be wonderful, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
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Subscribe: EvanderLFragoso.Substack.com
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I find it so difficult to figure out what to say in these posts, which is why I’ve had inconsistency issues in the past. Yes, being exhausted and stressed with the everyday struggle of survival doesn’t help, but that’s not everything. One thing my head keeps going back to is a simple idea that should help with these posts: “Just put out there what you’d like to see from other writers.” I guess one of my problems is I don’t tend to find myself hunting for tidbits from my favorites, so it makes me feel like I lack a basic framework for what I should be doing with social media when it comes to my writing.
It’s alright, I’ll keep at it and get better.
I am going to shoot for one to two posts a week (I know, that’s nothing when it comes to the wild world of social media), whether I just drop a couple of sentences to show that I’m still within the confines of this dimension, or I dive into something longer, like character lore, how my book ideas spawned, my big series plans, or how Vampire Hunter D is one of my favorite characters in fiction. For now, my plan is also to not have much behind my Substack subscription paywall, as I’m working hard to plot out a whole series while also wondering if I need to find a part-time job to give my strapped finances some sort of breathing room.
All that said, I’ve had some coffee, I’ve got some music going (Yama’s Versus the Night album at the moment), I think it’s time to shoot this blog post out into the void hoping it reaches my dear readers (present and future), and work on plotting Chapter 4 of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow Volume 3. Maybe I’ll have to talk more about that in the next post…
May your days be wonderful, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
Explore books & socials: ELFlinks.Weebly.com
Subscribe: EvanderLFragoso.Substack.com
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I find it so difficult to figure out what to say in these posts, which is why I’ve had inconsistency issues in the past. Yes, being exhausted and stressed with the everyday struggle of survival doesn’t help, but that’s not everything. One thing my head keeps going back to is a simple idea that should help with these posts: “Just put out there what you’d like to see from other writers.” I guess one of my problems is I don’t tend to find myself hunting for tidbits from my favorites, so it makes me feel like I lack a basic framework for what I should be doing with social media when it comes to my writing.
It’s alright, I’ll keep at it and get better.
I am going to shoot for one to two posts a week (I know, that’s nothing when it comes to the wild world of social media), whether I just drop a couple of sentences to show that I’m still within the confines of this dimension, or I dive into something longer, like character lore, how my book ideas spawned, my big series plans, or how Vampire Hunter D is one of my favorite characters in fiction. For now, my plan is also to not have much behind my Substack subscription paywall, as I’m working hard to plot out a whole series while also wondering if I need to find a part-time job to give my strapped finances some sort of breathing room.
All that said, I’ve had some coffee, I’ve got some music going (Yama’s Versus the Night album at the moment), I think it’s time to shoot this blog post out into the void hoping it reaches my dear readers (present and future), and work on plotting Chapter 4 of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow Volume 3. Maybe I’ll have to talk more about that in the next post…
May your days be wonderful, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
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Spent the day overhauling the first novella I self published, Fallen City. It's been needing an update for a while now, time for a second edition with better back cover copy and whatnot. Feels real nice to get back into this sort of work. Falls between the agony of writing and the frustration of typesetting.

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For the price of a coffee I will transport you to 21 different worlds of perception

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Speaking of #horror set in a hotel, my Novella Every Door is Locked takes place in a hotel. ;D

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ICYMI, my monthly writing prompt story for April is 'Liberate', and you can read it here. Go check out this dystopian short story before next month's story comes along and steals the spotlight.

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https://jaydeholmes.com/short-stories/liberate/

From the Greenland Diaries: Happy Little Trees

“I really didn’t think I’d be using it for this,” Debbie mumbled to a few squirrels crossing the trees to her right. “This is not what I had in mind. Not at all. I guess none of us did, did we? Who could have thought this much has changed in less than two years.”

She stopped and dipped her brush in a can of odorless paint thinner at her feet. It caught a bit of afternoon sun as it gleamed between the sharp stalks of overgrown grass. She beat the brush on the wooden legs of her easel, just like Bob Ross used to do. She tried to laugh thinking of his videos.

She wondered if she would ever watch them again. Power had not been restored, and she had a VHS tape of a few of the episodes. She had noticed them while hiding in her basement beneath the stairs when the Drum first started. They would shake beneath the old tube television her son Tyler had left there from the 90’s. He had been out in California when the Drum started. She doubted she would ever see him again.

Her husband, Tim, had died the first night. Debbie had happened to be downstairs grabbing some chicken breasts to defrost when she heard them arrive. Her instincts fired and she hid quickly and silently. It was like a dormant portion of her brain switched on. The reptilian lobe took control and hid her like she was nothing more than a frightened insect.

It had worked; she had survived.

Now, at present, she was in her backyard. The same backyard of oak trees and white fencing that kept her kids from escaping when they were toddlers. The same backyard her husband had tried to play catch with their son despite him having no interest in sports or athletics. Despite the rampant greenery, and the destruction, she could still see shadows in her memories of these moments. They were her only escape from all the heartbreak and weirdness that had appeared with these actual, living shadows.

One of these very monsters was in her backyard.

Debbie had gone to college for visual art. She then met Tim, who had just returned from Vietnam. They got married, had kids, and her artistic endeavors had firmly gone into purgatory. She always made a little time each week to watch Bob Ross on PBS to keep her skills honed. She loved landscape painting with both oils and acrylics. She loved him, too. She made plenty of mistakes following his tutorials, but he always made her feel like she was supposed to make mistakes. It gave her a sense of confidence, and eventually she was painting without him and to the quality she was creating back when she graduated. 

Then the Drum arrived, and everything changed.

Debbie laughed. She couldn’t believe this was happening. Of all the things to be painting. She couldn’t abandon this emotion. This weirdness. What would Bob Ross say? He was the embodiment of wholesomeness to so many. His ability to communicate positivity in the face of failure and difficulty was unmatched.

What would he say about the Unnamed?

They were beyond anything that his canvas could capture, emulate, or portray, but here Debbie was, using it to paint one in her backyard. Since the destruction of the Drum, survivors had moved through the wasteland and said the Unnamed should no longer be hunting humans like they did before. With the Drum gone they would have a new role in our world, but nobody knew what or how. 

When Debbie first noticed it, mixed in with the edge of the trees that led to the forest she’d lived next to for thirty years, she immediately wanted to hide. However, it stopped, and just floated on the edge of the trees, like it didn’t know where to go. After watching it standing amongst the bark, branches, and billowing leaves, Debbie got an interesting idea. She had been staring at her art supplies and canvases for months. They were just sitting there. Her digital camera and phone had long died. She needed to capture it, to pull into her own voice.

To make it hers.

After all, despite the nights of pure violence, the Unnamed was magnificent in all terms of the word.

It was ten feet tall, wide, and curled over itself like a frozen wave of fluctuating darkness and bone. Its hooks of golden claws were dug into the earth, with flowers sprouting around their impressions and edges. Birds were sitting and chirping along the golden horns and spikes sprouting from their back and hood. Even the shifting shadow beneath that midnight fabric seemed to glow in the sunlight. Below that was its chest of amber ribs, which reflected sunspots of daylight. Occasionally it shifted, but mostly it was just a violent cloud sitting still. A tempest tethered. A sleeping maelstrom of claws and bones. A thunderstorm lost and confused without its demon thunder to call home.

“You’re a good subject; you stay awfully still” Debbie would occasionally mumble from across her yard. She had set up her easel on the back of her brown deck. She had to chisel away at some of the plants that had choked the wooden planks with a spade. Eventually she got it to sit evenly.

“Do you understand what I’m doing?”

The Unnamed would never reply. Debbie was getting low on food. She had heard other survivors were beginning to leave the neighborhood to look for more supplies. Lines of resources were trying to be established, but people still did not trust traveling around the Unnamed, or the Reanimated. She sighed as she labored with the paints. Most of them had been salvageable but there were a few colors that she had to use sparingly. Sadly, green was one of them.

“You’ll always be remembered,” she said, adding the trees and wildlife behind its grizzly shape. 

“Nobody will remember me.”

If you want to learn more about the Greenland Diaries series, you can get the Kindle version of the first book for a dollar right here, or read the first ten days for free.

#TBRChallenge 2026 #Audiobook Review: Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan (Fool’s Errand)

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#TBRChallenge 2026 #Audiobook Review: Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan (Fool’s Errand)

https://twimom227.com/2026/04/tbrchallenge-2026-audiobook-review-breeze-spells-and-bridegrooms-by-sarah-wallace-s-o-callahan-fools-errand.html

#GayRomance #HistoricalRomance #LGBTQ #ListenUp #RatingB #SciFiOrFantasyFiction #Audiobooks #FaeAndHumanRelationsSeries #JenReview #MattSimpson #SOCallahan #SarahWallace #selfpublished

#TBRChallenge 2026 #Audiobook Review: Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan (Fool’s Errand)

https://twimom227.com/2026/04/tbrchallenge-2026-audiobook-review-breeze-spells-and-bridegrooms-by-sarah-wallace-s-o-callahan-fools-errand.html

#GayRomance #HistoricalRomance #LGBTQ #ListenUp #RatingB #SciFiOrFantasyFiction #Audiobooks #FaeAndHumanRelationsSeries #JenReview #MattSimpson #SOCallahan #SarahWallace #selfpublished

By Blood, By Salt by J.L. Odom

Undoubtedly an extremely well written political and military self-pub fantasy that deals with colonialism and othering. It perhaps leaned too much on varying political machinations over everything else that could have been explored in the world.

#BookReview #Reading #fantasybooks #Fantasy #selfpublished #Bookstodon

New month, so new Monthly Writing Prompt Story from me. This month's story is called 'Liberate'. Click here to see what made me write this dystopian tale.

#writing #selfpublished #dystopia #sff #shortstory #fiction

http://jaydeholmes.com/2026/04/02/monthly-writing-prompts-challenge-4-liberate/

The 33rd novelette, " – carnival was ringing – ", has begun:

https://thecityofroses.com/story/?c=carnival-was-ringing

#FantasyLit #FreeBooks #SelfPublished #GoodQueenDick

Jaime David in the World of Writing: My Story and the Many Namesakes

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/03/30/21/03/56/analysis/jaimedavid327/10393/jaime-david-in-the-world-of-writing-my-story-and-the-many-namesakes/

Jaime David in the World of Writing: My Story and the Many Namesakes

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/03/30/21/03/56/analysis/jaimedavid327/10393/jaime-david-in-the-world-of-writing-my-story-and-the-many-namesakes/