New Feature: Monthly Short Stories

Hi Folks,

I want to announce a new feature here on The Granite Notebook : a monthly short story rotation. I realized the other day that I have written quite a bit of awesome short fiction over the years and need to give readers here the opportunity to see some of it. Soon, probably early next year, I will publish a short story collection that will include many of these stories, but they are being published here for the first time. So readers of The Granite Notebook get to see them before everybody else. :)

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Inaugural Post!

It’s finally time to create an official first post and start filling The Granite Notebook up with content! The website has been unofficially live for a few weeks now, but I have still been occupied with putting the final touches on it. There are a few little things left to do in that regard, but for the most part what remains is the whole point of the thing in the first place: to focus on writing articles and posts.

And I will be doing that in the immediate future. The posts will probably come in waves, sometimes several a week, sometimes only one or two a month, depending on how inspired and how busy I am. I don’t want any of the content to seem forced or to be filler — when you come here you should always be able to expect something genuine and thought provoking. That will sometimes mean that there isn’t constantly something new.
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