Walt Williams writing as W.B.J. Williams

Henri Gerbault's "La Faunesse qui a ete visiter l'Exposition", female fauns gathered around one who attended the Paris Exposition in 1900.

I don't remember when I encountered Henri Gerbault's "La Faunesse qui a ete visiter l'Exposition" for the first time, but this remarkable work of art inspired my approach to Absinthe and Alchemy. The novel is now complete at 93,000 words and I'm seeking representation in the query trenches.

I understand you wish to learn the secrets of the unicorn.
I have just the tome for you: www.amazon.com/Reality-Myth...

Maya Williams ran a workshop on writing poetry regarding grief yesterday. I treasure these workshops, run by @masspoetry. Each time I attend, my skill at writing poetry expands.

Thank you Maya.

Deer approaches door

They got this close before our cat chased them away.

Two deer at a bird feeder

I am glad some friends dropped by to take a small repast as they look for unicorns.

Though I know this is the start of a scam, I do want to respond with damn right I am and proud of it!

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The Absinthe Drinker (Manet). Man in top hat and brown cape wrapped tightly around himself leans against a stone wall next to a partially drunk glass of absinthe.

All of my beta readers and the editor I've hired for Absinthe and Alchemy have given me great feedback. Perhaps the most encouraging was hearing from one beta reader yesterday that she wanted more and encouraged a longer novel & a sequel. Cool. I'm in the query trenches, with hope.

Con-artists going after authors, however this particular author has a day job……

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Looking forward to this! See you in Louisville in July! www.entertheimaginarium.com/2025/10/01/i...

JStor is awesome

I am not a fan of using the f word as a swear

done right, f*ing is one of the delights of living

I think too many forget to strive to live so that f*ing is a delight for all involved

I'm not afraid to write books like Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love & War

Its a f*ing book! Deliberately

The one thing that I've not yet seen said about T sending soldiers to fight antifa is that, in defining those who are against fascism as against him, he has admitted that he is a fascist.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild Background  Bartz v Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It was filed by nonfict...

The thieves have to pay: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...

How am I resisting? Remaining myself, creating, and not letting others define what is worthy of my time. Should my latest get published, there is a lot in Absinthe & Alchemy about there here & now.

YouTube video by BlondieVEVO Blondie - Rapture (Official Music Video)

For those who missed the rapture and are wondering what all the fuss was about, here it is: youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

A very long con (how a criminal organization tried to trick me out of thousands) From May through September of 2025, members of an organization claiming to represent Gemini Crypto tried to defraud me out of at least $1,000 as they pretended to recruit me to work at Gemini Crypto a...

From May through Sept, I was the target of a pig butchering scheme. I did a somewhat full write up (with the criminal's info redacted) here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/very-l...

I did provide the full, unredacted version to the FBI.

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It took until episode 10 of season 3 for truly bad writing to emerge in Foundation, not at all surprised the show runner cited the Game of Thrones as their inspiration.

Dern’s (Belated) Readercon 34 (2025) Report’n’Pix: Adding To Our Mounts To-Be-Read By Daniel Dern: Attending Readercon 34, “The conference on imaginative literature” (per the web site), held Thursday July 17-Sunday July 20, 2025 at the Boston Marriott Burlington hotel in Burlingt…

A great article about Readercon 34: file770.com/derns-belate...

I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.

It looks like our future is all set

If you found ancient statues of Freyja’s cats and there were runes carved into the base, what should the runes say?

Fishing for a scene in a novel, if I use your idea it will be credited

News to me, and might be to others: Often small publishers don't register the copyright on your books. To do so requires a small fee and may be done at www.copyright.gov. There is a larger fee if you want special handling because you're involved in a legal dispute or other reason requiring speed.

Some one thought my never ending search for a unicorn was a gag.

I know it looks like the steps lead to a portal, but I can assure you there are no unicorns on the other side.

this is how I found out one of our publishers actually did not, and apparently other people are finding this out as well, so it is not a bad idea to go check!!! lol

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just FYI, if you have had a short story in an anthology in the last decade, and you are searching this tool to see if your story was scraped up as part of the LibGen data by Anthropic, searching your name may not be enough.

Search by the name of the editor of the anthology.

Just watched the film, The Return. I am impressed with this portrayal of the climatic return of Odysseus. Great acting.