Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds – Apple-Obsessed Author Fella

BEHOLD: A WILD (twist) APPLE APPEARS. But first: a brief digression about agricultural-industrial apple storage!
Did you know that the reason we get apples (and ostensibly a lot of other fruits and veggies) year-round, way outside their harvest period, is thanks to the magic of industrial agriculture? An apple gets picked and then is preserved in its current state...

Movies like this don’t generally get to exist.
Sorry — to rewind here a bit, I saw Iron Lung, the (very indie) Markiplier movie that adapts the David Szymanski game of the same name.
To rewind further, do you know who Markiplier is? If you have a teenager or are in any way interested in video games, you probably do — I guess you’d call him a YouTuber, which is accurate but also just feels too small. You could go with “content creator...

And, we have a cover for The Calamities, courtesy of Del Rey and the Boland Design Co (who also did the stellar Staircase in the Woods cover)!
The description:
The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power, in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents...

I’m a writer and I should be eloquent. I should have eloquence, ready at hand, for things like this. I should have poetry paired with clarity and I should find a way to turn what I’m feeling into something, into anything beyond what it already is, like...