October | 2025 | JD Byrne
3 posts published by JD Byrne during October 2025| JD Byrne
It’s that time of the year again. Even though National Novel Writing Month is officially dead, I still think of November as a month to lay other things aside and focus on writing, so that’s what I’m going to do. Things will be silent for a while around here as I, hopefully, make some progress … Continue reading Blog Hiatus| JD Byrne
Last weekend, at the Writer’s Block event hosted by Henlo Press, I had a discussion with a potential customer that threw me for a loop. Surveying my books, she asked, “which one is your favorite?” …| JD Byrne
Years ago – I mean years ago – I remembered Roger Ebert describing Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor in this withering way: “Pearl Harbor” is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. At the time I thought that was … Continue reading On Historical Fiction| JD Byrne
A few weeks ago I finished up Kay Chronister’s The Bog Wife. While doing my usual post-reading due diligence I pulled up the book’s Goodreads page to read some reviews and the follow conversation o…| JD Byrne
I know a couple of weeks ago I said I was only going to do a couple of appearance this fall – turns out I lied. I was asked recently to participate in MystiCon, presented by the Jackson County Public Library in October. There’s a schedule full of speakers, lots of vendors, and contests for … Continue reading I Lied – Another Fall Event!| JD Byrne
When I found out earlier this year that a new Spike Lee Joint was on the way, I was excited. When I found out it was an adaptation of an Akira Kurosawa film – one I’d not yet seen – I w…| JD Byrne
Since I haven’t had anything new come out this year I’ve been taking a pass on most events during the year, but there are a couple coming up that I’m part of and should be a lot of fun. First, on September 16, Cicada Books & Coffee in Huntington, WV, are having their second (?) … Continue reading Fall Events (Come See Me!)| JD Byrne
Nothing substantive this week as I’m finishing up a short story for submission to an anthology about lesser-known cryptids of Appalachia. No spoilers, but I can at least mention the beastie that’s involved: Back next week!| JD Byrne
Consider The Leftovers, but funnier. And full of cheese. That’s a good way to think of John Scalzi’s latest, When the Moon Hits Your Eye. In The Leftovers (both the very good book and the excellent…| JD Byrne
Just before I went on hiatus courts in two separate lawsuits by creatives against generative AI companies handed down similar decisions indicating that AI isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Both co…| JD Byrne
All art is driven by form, to a certain extent. Deciding to tell a story by writing a novel means a different form, with different strengths and weaknesses, than telling the same story by making a …| JD Byrne
