Speaking with @Davi Mai, he has encouraged me to share about my writing community here on Skool. Thank You Davi for allowing me to "advertise" in Unpublishable Writer, I am is a coaching led community for writers of all types. I am a professional writing coach whose work experience includes work at a publishing company. Writer, I am is a prompt driven practice space for writing. All genre writers are welcome. In the general community you will find monthly, weekly, and daily challenges, and writing tips. Tier membership level includes calendared group sessions. VIP memberships are for our 'focused' writers. These members are our writers who focus more on business and content writing, publishing, and the marketing end of writing (calendared coaching sessions). "Blue" content is creative, fiction, storytelling, and poetry driven. "Yellow" content is for our VIP members. Come to Writer, I am to practice writing, stay in the habit of writing, explore your imagination and emotions, and get better at your craft. Find us here: https://www.skool.com/writer-i-am-3440/about

Including a fun little game, "What Word?" Share a screenshot of your best score if you like :-) https://www.skool.com/unpublishable-1951/classroom

I'm happy to post that I've had my second horror story turned into a podcast at Creepypod.com. This one was called, "The Shape in the Shadow" (which was published first in Iridescence: The Second Dimension, published by Kinsman Quarterly on August 6, 2026 The broadcast from Creepy was on August 26th (but I just was made aware) :) This podcast has two stories on it and I truly enjoyed the first one. Mine came right after (at 22:40 if you wanted to skip right to it). I'll also post this on my website under podcasts. https://www.creepypod.com/episodes/2026/8/26/the-reader-amp-the-shape-in-the-shadow If you'd like to hear both horror Podcasts that I've had done, you can find them here: https://www.nsstember.com/podcast

I was very happy to get the news that one of my short stories, a horror western (an experiment I was trying) was finally accepted after over a dozen rejections. It's not a big payday in any way (a few bucks) but it felt good having someone like this story that so many had turned down.