That rattling at the door is not in your head, it’s the sound of Sam Flynn’s Cabinet of Curiosities, my new quarterly newsletter with all the book news, publishing insights, writing tips, and mini-reviews you could want. It will go out the first Friday of every third month, starting this…
Well . . . 2020 kinda sucked didn’t it? With that belated understatement out of the way, my last post came way back in October 2020 when I celebrated the completion of the first draft of The Darkest Fate. Since then, I’ve been in the editing weeds, occasionally changing it…
2019 has been a busy year for me, inasmuch as “busy” applies to a person who sits in one place to do his work and aspires to such an existence pretty much indefinitely. The sheer fact that I am Slogging at all is an achievement, a startling contrast to my…
View this post on Instagram New book day! A post shared by Sam Flynn (@samflynn1992) on Nov 16, 2018 at 1:42pm PST List-making is a blessing and a curse. It’s satisfying to make them, at least for me, to organize my thoughts or arrange my tasks. Of course,…
I’m 11. I’m in detention, tracing Middle-earth over and over again. Printed off maps of Tolkien’s created world sit beneath the paper, giving me the lines to trace over and over again. Every day, I think of books, stories, ideas. Escapes, over and over again. I’m in detention and I…
Hey guys, It’s been a quiet few months here at The Slog, indeed, a quiet year after launching this site in January 2015. While I was still in school and working less, the Slog was more or less my main focus as far as writing, helping me do so consistently…
Dear Readers, 2016 is upon us and that means 2015 is behind us. Last January, I set out to write a blog for a year. I’d become far too insulated during my college years. Time I would have spent reading and writing when I was a teenager, I started using…
Dear Readers, Back in June, prior to my Chautauquan sojourn, I asked you what features you wanted more of from the Slog. The poll revealed that the majority of this blog’s visitors favor my reviews over other content so for the future I will be focusing on keeping more up to…
Dear Reader, Here we are, 6 months into whatever journey the Slog holds. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. It took me a while to commit to doing a blog regularly, but now with over 50 posts under my belt and a litany of enjoyment from watching and re-watching, reading and re-reading,…
