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I have been selected as a 2026 Featured Author by the American Writing Awards, a commendation conferred on only 15 authors. The honor comes on the heels of my win in the 2025 American Writing Awards for Best New (Debut) Nonfiction for my memoir Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Dro Read more of this blog post »

When I sat down to write Echo of the Singularity: Awakening, I spent countless hours researching the "breaking point" of intelligence. I wanted to know exactly how a machine might move from following code to following its own curiosity.

This week, as I watched the 2026 tech keynotes and industry repo Read more of this blog post »

the sequel of An empty world with you is officially in progress! 🔥📝

Narrated by: Troy Duran & Helena Walters


A man with no limits is the most dangerous kind of threat.

When Trent Clarke caught me picking pockets at eleven, he didn’t turn me in. Instead, he took me under his wing and taught me that in this world, you take what you want and never look back. He might hav Read more of this blog post »

In life, nothing is as simple as we want it to be. Ideally, we could use our powers of logical reasoning to solve our problems, such as:

A is true,

and B is true,

Therefore, C is true.

For example:

All dogs are animals.

All animals die.

Therefore, dogs die.

Bu

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One stranded female on the run from her stalker.

Two protective, small-town best friends now willing to do whatever it takes to keep her safe.

Three people in love becoming prey for the obsessed hunter lurking in the shadows.

And to think.

This is only the beginning.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B Read more of this blog post »

📖 Title: The Soul King III by Ray Patino
Publisher: IC Media / OutlawzInc Media (2026)
Review by: SUNDANCE BOOKS 📕 & FILM — Time Book Critic - Release date : 1.2.2026.
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)
Review:
Ray Patino’s The Soul King III is not merely dark fantasy or cosmic horror—it is a prophetic vision of divin Read more of this blog post »

This book was a true and pleasant surprise. From the first pages, it allowed me to feel like a child again—to see the world through a child’s eyes, where curiosity, imagination, and quiet magic still exist.
Reading it during this reflective time of the year made the experience even more touching. Read more of this blog post »

Saddle

The leather under her scrunched as she corrected her posture. She had been riding all day, and the saddle was starting to wear her. She wanted nothing but to walk and stretch herself, but they still had a few more miles to go before they could rest for the night. She let out a stifled yawn and

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Hear ye! Hear ye! Part 2 of John: Volume 27 of our Heavenly Citizens series is available.

Light for the blind, Shepherd for the sheep, Life for the dead, King and Servant and Sin Offering for the people. His name is Jesus.

Enter through the Door of the sheepfold and meet your Shephe

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Twelve colors. Twelve stages. One complete journey from form to formless and back.

Not theory. Direct experience.

Gaze softly at a white piece of paper. Breathe naturally. Colors appear spontaneously.

The Five Phases:

Phase I: Elemental Foundation (Steps 1-4)
Primary color squares establishing chakri

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 Spekülatif öykü kitabım Uçuşan Anı Parçaları ön satışta, keyifli okumalar.

Shopier

 

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Hello, and welcome to 2026. Divergent turns fifteen years old this year (!) and I have been thinking a lot about it— what it was like back then, what it’s like now, and what I’ve learned from all of it. So let’s dive in.

Everyone Else Must Be Right

There are reasons that the brain stores negative feed

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🙏✨📚A quiet note, shared with gratitude.📚✨🙏

My Trilogy on Life & Awareness is now live — a contemplative journey from atom to awareness, expressed in English, Marathi, and Hindi.

If you’d like to understand the journey before choosing a book, here’s a single consolidated blog post with all links:

👉 http Read more of this blog post »

As a therapist who supports many parents of neurodivergent children, I often see a pattern that’s both beautiful and intense: one parent or carer becomes the emotional barometer for their child. In other words, the child (who might also have challenges in interoception and emotional regulation) lear

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Hallelujah, rather than focusing on your problems, be thankful for "All That God Has Done" for you and thank God for "All That He Has Done"; a reflection of gratitude (Psalm 107:21). Don’t count your problems, count your blessings in place of focusing on your problems, that are and can be a blessing Read more of this blog post »

From Pressure to Path

I did not set out to create a body of work.

What I set out to do, slowly and imperfectly, was learn how to live inside myself with a little more honesty, compassion, and steadiness. Everything else came later.

The Light Switch Myth grew out of a pattern I kept seeing, both in my o Read more of this blog post »

St. Thérèse discovered God not in extraordinary deeds, but in the quiet faithfulness of everyday life. In stillness, she learned that love grows when we stop striving and simply trust.

Prayer:
Lord, teach me the grace of stillness.
Slow my restless heart.
Help me find You in the small moments of each Read more of this blog post »

It’s Time We Upgrade How We Talk About Mental Health 🧠🌱
We often use "mental health" and "mental illness" as if they are the same thing. But understanding the difference is the first step toward a healthier society. We are moving away from the old binary of "sane vs. insane" and toward a future where Read more of this blog post »

🐺💖Now Live!
Wild, Savage Alpha Shifters #1 in audiobook is live on Audible.

14+ hours, narrated by Heather Firth and C.J. Grey. Published by Podium Entertainment
Growling, biting, knotting, and purring wolf shifters! Tyson Savage is even wilder as a man than he is as a wolf. And he's about to claim h Read more of this blog post »

The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


*** Possible Spoilers ***

There was quite a difference between the first half of this book and the second. The first half reminded me of a travelogue, interesting but not much in the way of plot. Things got moving in the second hal Read more of this blog post »

Dear Reader,

I haven't been posting updates and my self-published books are currently unavailable, so you might think I'm preparing to disappear off the face of the Earth. So I feel I owe an explanation and an apology. I am well. Worried too much about things that I can't do anything about, and getti Read more of this blog post »

Imagine an ad for a used book starting out with “Four hundred year old book, condition good, sort of, except for a few pages where the text got torn away….”

In the First Folio as it came off the press in 1623, the start of the second scene of Act 1 of The Tempest looked like this.

Scena Secunda.

Enter

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One of the most consistent patterns in political argument is how rarely the two sides argue against what the other side actually believes. Instead, each side argues against an exaggerated, strawman version that barely resembles the actual position. This is not accidental. It is structural to how pol

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When it comes to taking a walk on the other side, nobody's got more experience than Dr. Gary.

He dies every night.

He has sleep apnea.

He has walked toward the great white light thousands of times. Nobody knows more about the tunnel that leads to it.

One night, he finds something.

Nobody's ever seen it b Read more of this blog post »

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