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Cover Reveal and Pre-Order Announcement: Iconoclast Available on May 6th

Dave Walsh announces Iconoclast, available on May 6th, 2025.

I’m so excited about this. It has been over two years since my last release, and so much has changed since then. The world feels like a much more uncertain place than it did two years ago. This book began as a project I worked on in 2016 prior to my boys being born, and started off like most of my books do: with a joke. Since then it blossomed out into a richer idea. A novel about power…

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The Lessons of Babylon 5 S4's 'The Long Night'

The Lessons of Babylon 5 S4's 'The Long Night' and an announcement about the future.

You know, it’s been a while since I’ve written about Babylon 5. Let’s pretend to not look back at the dates of previous entries just for my sanity, please? Ironic enough, as I find myself deep into another viewing of Babylon 5, we’re sitting on the precipice of another potential dark age here in the United States. I know many people who are retreating into comfort watches that depict better…

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Hell yeah.

thanks so much Dave Walsh for your ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of PINK OLIVE! it means the world to me. <3

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Check out the Universe of Adventure bundle on StoryBundle!

Check out the Universe of Adventure StoryBundle, with twelve awesome sci-fi books for one low price! #scifi #ebooks

Universe of Adventure There’s a whole Universe of Adventure waiting for you over at StoryBundle with the latest science fiction bundle, Universe of Adventure. It’s curated by John Wilker and myself, and features twelves of the best indie authors pumping out that sweet, adventure-filled science fiction you crave. Check Out Universe of Adventure on StoryBundle Here’s the lowdown from…

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To My Missing Dulce, on the Night of Your Departure

I'm not a big sharer most of the time. I'm going to miss my girl, though. She deserves this.

I held your head in my lap and wept, unafraid to beg you not to go. Not yet. You couldn’t. It was undeniable how scared you were, afraid of how your body was failing you and all the things you couldn’t do. When Owen stroked you with tears in his eyes, he asked me how long you had, and I didn’t know. How could I know this was it? All I knew was how scared you were, and the pain I could feel in…

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New Short Story Posted: NeuroWave

Today I posted a new short story over on my Patreon. It’s called NeuroWave. This is a near-future cyberpunk story about the potential future of the gig economy. What happens when you can allow people to jump into your body while your brain goes into autopilot and you “sleep” through it? Nothing good, right? This story was originally written last year, in fact, almost exactly a year ago. I make…

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How Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Smashes Traditional Masculinity with Kindness

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth reframes masculinity in a shroud of goodness and community while providing a perfect sendoff for Kiryu Kazuma.

Previously, I wrote about Yakuza: Like a Dragon and how Ichiban Kasuga was the perfect modern hero. There was a moderate uproar when Kasuga replaced the stoic Kiryu Kazuma because the new protagonist of the series wasn’t a carbon copy of Kiryu, instead a much more neurotic and impulsive character. Still, it felt like the perfect departure point for the developers and a natural way to pivot to…

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No, Not All Prologues Suck. Get Over It.

Because everything turns into a debate. Are prologues actually bad? Or is this advice just publishing professionals' opinions bleeding into readers' subconscious?

Sometimes rules in art are there as training wheels, and just because you personally never saw the need to remove them, doesn’t mean everyone should be forced to use them. That might sound broad, pretentious, or presumptive. Maybe it’s provocative, just so we have another p-word into the mix. It’s not meant to insult or make anyone feel bad, though. Because it’s something we all go through at…

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The Independent Brilliance of DDT Pro Wrestling’s Sanshiro Takagi and a Gamble on Creativity

DDT Pro Wrestling's Sanshiro Takagi built something beautiful from the ground up in Japan's indie scene. All from a gamble on creativity and passion.

Side Note: My growing discomfort with Substack led to me trying out new things. My “author platform” never felt like the right place to talk about my interests or systemic issues in publishing. I’m not sure a “traditional” newsletter works. I like the idea of people being able to comment, share and so forth. So, here we are. I think this is it. You can subscribe, you can toss me some money like…

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Review: The Saint of Bright Doors

Alright, here's my review of 'The Saint of Bright Doors' by Vajra Chandrasekera.

So, I sped through this before it came out thanks to a galley copy I had, but I didn’t really ~get~ the full experience. I bought a copy and promised I’d get back to it.Then I did.There’s a lot in this book, and on a raw, surface level, the plot was good, albeit there was a point just past the middle during the imprisonment stuff where it got bit muddy and dragged. What you need to realize about…

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To the Moon and How Narrative Belongs in Games

Let's talk about the game To the Moon, a game I finally played and how silly it was that I waited this long to play it.

The videogame medium as a whole has a continual problem with the concept of narrative. Early games were either devoid of narrative or kept the narratives so deceptively simple that there was no real reason to worry about them. Here’s a gorilla who kidnapped a princess, here’s a plumber jumping over barrels to save her. Go. RPGs came along and added more depth to the field, but along with that…

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Against the Day

I sorta review Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. Sort of. Not really? I don't know.

It’s a book about light.I’m going to need time to sit and think about this one. This was technically my third read-through, although I believe it’s my first time making it all the way through. I waited years so it would feel fresh again and I’m very, very glad that I did.This isn’t the kind of book you consume, feel your feels in the moment and move on from. It’s the kind of book that you need to…

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10.2.23

Boy, I haven’t posted on here in a while, eh? Sorry about that. I’m not great at this regular blogging thing sometimes. In some ways, I operate best when spitting out big ideas before going into hibernation. After months of work, I finally began querying for a new book I’ve written, which makes the second this year. I’m not feeling entirely confident in it as it’s such a strange, demoralizing…

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Grisaille (Paperback)

Everyone knows Blain, he’s the galaxy’s biggest badass. Inside of the arena, there was nothing that could stop him. While a dangerous alien force lays siege to the galaxy, the Interstellar Battle League continues to hold events in secret, hoping to avoid the Void scourge that has destroyed multiple events. For Blain, it was just another fight, just another night and nothing some time in a regen…

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Grisaille

Everyone knows Blain, he’s the galaxy’s biggest badass. Inside of the arena, there was nothing that could stop him. While a dangerous alien force lays siege to the galaxy, the Interstellar Battle League continues to hold events in secret, hoping to avoid the Void scourge that has destroyed multiple events. For Blain, it was just another fight, just another night and nothing some time in a regen…

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Book Review: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Dave reviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia's latest, Silver Nitrate. A romp through Mexico City's horror film industry filled with the occult relics of colonization.

There’s always that sense of excitement when Silvia Moreno-Garcia has a new book coming out. In part, it’s because you know you’re in for something that has her signature style, but will not be retreading on territory covered in previous books. For the most part. Silver Nitrate is a marvelous supernatural book set in Mexico in the 80s, focusing on their film and television industry. We follow…

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Let’s talk about rich assholes!

I grow tired of watching the world set ablaze by the rich and powerful, only to see those patterns emerge in smaller ecosystems, such as within the indie author community.

https://dvewlsh.substack.com/p/the-architects-of-this-world-are