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What Happens When a Reality TV Star Bankrupts a Democracy?

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Where Rain Meets Ink: The Rise of Indie Authors in the Pacific Northwest

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There’s a moment early in The Apprentice’s Bankruptcy when Daniel Thorp— failed car dealer, reality-TV messiah, self-declared president for life—sits in a bunker beneath a rebuilt White House while the very crowd that wo...

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Where Rain Meets Ink: The Rise of Indie Authors in the Pacific Northwest

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For SEO Purposes to Artificially Link Myself to Better Authors

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to use a YouTube channel to move books for months, unsuccessfully I might add. I mean people watch YouTube videos mainly because someone is telling them how to do do something. That’...

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Christopher J. Stockwell's Down and Out in Seattle and Tacoma Book Series has won the second-place award in Contemporary Fiction for the 2025 Digital Book Today Literary awards.

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Despite the fact that down and out continues to be a somewhat underground phenomenon—more underground that an actual Fight Club, which isn't actually great for a book—it appears that someone thinks it's worthy of an awar...

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In all honesty, I wrote the first City Attorney's Office book—Professional Camouflage—as a goof, and as a way to process the daily annoyance and irritation of working as a municipal prosecutor. About half way through wri...

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I doubt many of us would care to admit it out loud, but if you're making something, you probably want others to acknowledge it. It's more like, I don't want you to know that I'm seeking your approval. I really don't, it ...

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I just kept hearing that people didn't love the artwork for this book. It's already been through multiple incarnations, and it's been a learning process for me as well. At the end of the day, I caved and completely repla...

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Most people think, if they think of such things at all, a butterfly effect can only ever be an innocuous nothing becoming a disturbing something, with far reaching and catastrophic consequences for all of humanity. Most ...

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Question: What does transgressive fiction have to do with a bunch of attorneys at a prosecutor's office?

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Let me start by saying that I love Charles Bukowski, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis (I have to say that or I'll be flogged in the town square), but at the same time, I don't really know what they thi...

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Well more or less. I like to date it from 1975, likely, at least partially, due to the fact that I was also born in 1975. In any case, next year is 2025, and while good arguments can be made for an earlier year to date p...

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Readers are often curious about Jack and his life beyond the series. What did he do for fun, or in an attempt to have fun, before ending up drunk, face down in a puddle? Where did he go when he wasn't institutionalized ...

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I sat down with Chris Stockwell, the author of the Down and Out in Seattle and Tacoma Series, to talk about why he writes and what his favorite part of the series is.

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