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One thing that's always stood out to me about the most successful stories (books, movies, TV, games, whatever) is that they always have lines that the audience can quote. Sometimes they're meaningful or inspirational quotes, sometimes they're just memes, but they all seem to have them. "You're...

I just got an email from Amazon telling me I'd been selected to try out Audible's new feature of narrating audiobooks with AI. While I'm usually against using AI for creative projects (at least ones you intend to make money from) I admit I was curious. So I booted up the audio toolset and loaded...

Most books: (slides easily and smoothly into the big climactic battle like a mud wrestler on a slip'n slide) Henry Rider 3: Me:

I'm pretty sure we're all aware of how entitled people on the internet can be, especially when it comes to free entertainment. What's the most entitled thing your readers have ever said to you? For me, it was back when I still used WattPad. I had just finished uploading the first Amber...

I've got my artist working on the cover for the third Henry Rider book. These are the rough sketches she provided for me today. What do you guys think? I really like version A. Version B has a better view of Daggum, but A is more centered on Henry and looks more...I don't know, intense?

Assuming you knew nothing about the story itself, which of these would you be more likely to pick up and take a look at: a series with a small number of long books, or a large number of short books?

How do you know if the system you've made for your litrpg is any good? I've never written a litrpg before and this is my biggest worry. I don't want to do anything crazy with my system, but I also don't want to copy an existing one. How do I know if the levels, spell points, stats, level ups...

I've mentioned a couple times that I'm thinking about writing a litrpg, but I have very little experience with the genre. I'm listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook, and it's really fun, but from what I hear that's more of a deconstruction of the litrpg genre than a "real" litrpg. So if...

I was writing Henry Rider 3 a few minutes ago, and I suddenly realized I'd just written the most inspirational line I'd ever come up with—entirely by accident! What's the most inspirational line you've ever put into a book?

I've got two characters ready for the litrpg I'm building in my head, but I can't decide which one to make the main character. I like them both, and I'm definitely going to include both in the story. I think both have the potential to inspire some really cool stories. But, there's only room for...

I played Half Life for the first time today, and...I was underwhelmed. I'm sure this game was absolutely mindblowing when it came out nearly 30 years ago (side note: I feel old) but games have evolved so much since then that even legendary and revolutionary titles like Half Life feel antiquated...

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I was thinking back to my book Juryokine today, and I remembered a question I constantly asked myself while I was writing it. In it, the main character Toke and some of the side characters have the power to alter their gravitational anchors. Some of them were born with the ability. Toke got the...

For as long as humanity has ruled the earth, skinwalkers have existed right beneath its nose. A race of shapeshifters, they live secretly in the lands untouched by civilization. Their only contact with the human world is to find other skinwalkers and awaken them to their true nature. Fey...

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I was playing Yakuza Kiwami 2 tonight, and I happened upon a certain sidequest. Anyone familiar with the game probably knows exactly what I'm talking about. For those who don't...well, I'll let the game speak for itself: And because I'm apparently a glutton for mental torture, what are some of...

I'm pretty sure all of us have been traumatized by a movie at least once in our lives. Which death scene(s) scared the crap out of you? For me, I've always had a thing about people being turned into inanimate objects. Winterbolt being turned into a tree in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July...

I'm listening to Mike Brooks' Warhammer 40k Ork trilogy on audiobook, and it's freaking hilarious. It makes me want to write a story about a bunch of insane, single digit IQ warmongers whose only ambition is to murder every living thing they see and somehow manage to do so despite having the...

One day, everyone wakes up and realizes the world has been irreversibly changed and we have no choice but to adapt to it or die. Little do we know (or maybe we do) that this is because Earth and all of its inhabitants have been chosen as the latest contestants on some kind of intergalactic game...

In addition to posting my stories on sites like Scribble Hub, for the past ten years or so I've had my own personal website called Bolander Books, and....nobody ever uses it. I keep it running purely for sentimental reasons. Yeah, I get (slightly) more attention on other sites, but I have to...