My (Unofficial) Masterclass series continues with Ursula K. Le Guin! Focusing on her world-building craft, I explore:
• Big ideas through tangible truths
• Tension > lore
• Dialectic world building
If you’re a Le Guin fan, this one’s for you. Enjoy!
kcarver.substack.com/p/ursula-k-l...
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100% agree
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S'more writing, s'more fun! 🤘
24.09.2025 03:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to @cateyepress.bsky.social and fellow #PenandPier writer @uteorgassa.bsky.social on a fantastic new anthology, MODERN MUMMIES! That’s a wrap!
21.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
My BOOK! In a real life BOOKSTORE! IT HAPPENED! I’M NOT SCREAMING! 😭😭😭
09.08.2025 22:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
RIP Ozzy, one of the greatest musical storytellers of our time.
Fun fact: I found these records at a yard sale for $10 and display them every October. Pure nightmare fuel for my kids. 😅
22.07.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ANTI-PRIME: There's an awesome sale going on at Bookshop.org. It's a great fit for those of you looking to support indie authors but NOT looking to support Amazon. My book, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙡, is currently on sale! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Proceeds benefit indie bookstores. 🤘
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09.07.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woo hoo! Congrats, @uteorgassa.bsky.social, you modern mummy you
08.07.2025 00:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Author Kevin Carver in the studio recording a segment with interviewer Brian Reynolds
My first radio interview as a published author 😭
We talked oppression, power, anarchy, and music. I also got to read an excerpt. SUPER fun!
03.07.2025 00:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Salon with the name of, Hair There Delilah
When millennials start businesses.
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🚨😱👀 COVER REVEAL INCOMING:
Something is stirring in the Parallels.
Secrets. Shadows. A story that's ready to rise.
Every revolution starts with a secret.
The Forbidden Parallel by Kevin Carver.
Published by Provender Press/ @angelagracehere.bsky.social
#comingsoon
25.04.2025 21:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
By name, Pansies have a bad reputation, but it’s the only plant from last year’s garden that survived 🤷♂️
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News & Articles - Pen & Pier
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Fellow author @kevincarver.bsky.social has his first book coming out soon. You can read all about it in the interview that we did with him for Pen & Pier. www.penandpier.com/news-and-art...
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Literally just started reading this. Super cool quote!
13.03.2025 04:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have a new flash story out today. Enjoy!
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Finding Hope in the Shadows: How Dystopian Fiction Inspires Resilience
And turning the page on apathy
America hasn’t been right for some time. With everything going on, I find myself returning to an unlikely source of solace and inspiration that helps me cut through the darkness: Dystopian fiction.
14.02.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.13/word. nightshadesmag.com
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I make music, play pool, used to race real world cars, now stick to simulated ones. They have reset buttons. :)
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We are a community of SFF nerds who formed a book club and made a (amateur) podcast out of it.
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