Category: Becoming Hercules
Becoming Hercules is a young adult mythic fantasy serial that restores an ancient origin story that’s been erased from the canon of Greek mythology. Distributed exclusively on Amazon’s Kindle Vella platform.
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Transgender Awareness Week
November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week. I’ve never shared this story with anyone before, mostly because it’s not really mine to tell, but also because it’s not exactly my proudest moment. But it informs some of what I’m trying to accomplish in my writing and will hopefully explain my perspective on why transgender awareness is…
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Tinkering
Since Amazon is treating their soft-launch of the Kindle Vella platform as a beta project, I’m also beta testing new images and descriptions.
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Multicultural Mythoversal Thebes
For thousands of years, classical mythology has described this mythical-era kingdom as a multicultural melting pot.
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Coming Next Week…
Sometime next week, Becoming Hercules will be part of a new reading experience from Amazon. Start freaking out now because there won’t be time later!
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Myths Aren’t Meant To Be Told
The Amazons have finally spoken. Becoming Hercules will be released in mid to late July, about a month from now. Get ready!
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The Hottest Fashions of Greek mythology
What did the heroes of mythology wear? You can’t tell your chitons from your peploses without a guide…
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Becoming Hercules Update
The “Becoming Hercules” serial is coming, but when? I present my plan for each possible release date.
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Iphicles and the Breezes
Sharing my notes on some of the people, places, and things you’ll read about in “Becoming Hercules.”
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The Pivot
Something big is on the way… There was no new Rage this past Sunday. As announced last week, I’m pivoting away from retelling Epic Cycle works to focus on an original work of serialized fiction set in the world of Mythoversal Hellas. This will be a new adaptation of a manuscript I’ve been developing for…
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Hercules, Heracles, and…Melqart?!
The secret recipe for this legendary strongman is one part Greek, one part Roman, and some unknown quantity of Phoenician. My teachers taught me that Hercules was the Roman version of Heracles, the legendary Greek strongman who was elevated after his death into a god of strength and heroism. Same character, same stories, in a…
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Your June 2017 Check-In
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update to let everyone know what’s happening in the Fishbone Literary Universe. I’m sorry for the radio silence. I’ll try to do better going forward. Here’s where we stand at the end of June 2017: Today, June 30th, is World Asteroid Day. Out of an estimated million-plus asteroids…