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C.S. Humble

@cshumble

Author of That Light Sublime Series (@CemeteryDance / @ShortwaveBooks) & The Black Wells Series. | Lit Agent: @BeckyLeJeune

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And it was there, worry set up on the precipice of every wrinkle, the unsettling fear of man who looks to a friend for hope. Who in the course of life has set aside his dream for too long and asks quietly, desperately, "Do you think I can be good again?" #warmup

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The Massacre at Yellow Hill serves as the setting stone for That Light Sublime saga (which I'll be adding three more books to next year) and I couldn't be more proud of that. Without any ego attached, I will say, there are not many narrative voices like mine, if any at all. So,

The Massacre at Yellow Hill serves as the setting stone for That Light Sublime saga (which I'll be adding three more books to next year) and I couldn't be more proud of that.

Without any ego attached, I will say, there are not many narrative voices like mine, if any at all. So,
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Tell you what folks: I'm coming toward the end of this second trilogy in That Light Sublime Saga...and I'm getting real fuckin' emotional. All I'm saying... Real. Fuckin'. Emotional. youtu.be/kKtye_ytO1g

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"I know how American civilization now leans upon the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the revolution. And I am willing, perfectly willing to lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain

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"How did you know I was pretending?" asked the gunfighter. "Your pulse, of course. For whatever a man tries to hide, Mr. Erickson," said Doctor Van Horn, trailing a palm down the length of the door frame as she left. "The heart always gives it away."

"How did you know I was pretending?" asked the gunfighter.  

"Your pulse, of course. For whatever a man tries to hide, Mr. Erickson," said Doctor Van Horn, trailing a palm down the length of the door frame as she left. "The heart always gives it away."
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Building a career in publishing as a writer is, often times, a very lonely and difficult journey. Sometimes you will feel the support of others, most other times you will feel yourself an island. It is important to remember, the work is the reward. That keeps the heart upright.

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Coming with my highest recommendation. Josh Rountree is pound for pound one of the very best short story writers working in the world today.

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"All my life, the world has looked at me one way. Making it the only look I have ever known. Rude and unseemly," he said, in his eyes the rarest of tears. "And then you come along and look at me, same way you're looking now. And with it, make all other looks irrelevant."

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“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in
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The full occult fellowship and members of the Society of Prometheus never considered what might happen if they took, as a prisoner, the husband of one of the greatest gunfighters to ever step the Earth. But boy oh boy are they about to find the fuck out. #LarryandSvenforever

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Five days and four nights upon the Cardinal Song Express, Larry Cornish had not said a word. Eating little, sleeping less, wholly possessed by churning anxiety only known to those have faced the prospect of the destruction of a life made whole. Morning came and went, changing the

Five days and four nights upon the Cardinal Song Express, Larry Cornish had not said a word. Eating little, sleeping less, wholly possessed by churning anxiety only known to those have faced the prospect of the destruction of a life made whole. Morning came and went, changing the
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Cemetery Dance Epilogue. This was a hard one. But I did it for Dad, who would have been 64 today. Remember, never save "I love you" for another day. Happy Birthday, Dad.

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In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft by Joe R. Lansdale and Mike Mignola - Reviewed by Sucharita Biswas | Reedsy Discovery reedsy.com/discovery/book…

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On his right, the Stono River charged, chopped to white in its rush and muddy brown where the waters calmed in their swirl, the whole body swollen by the spring flood season. Just along the waterway he came to find a portion of the city so recently built the scent of fresh cut

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Tomorrow we are announcing the final author and title for our 2025 lineup! Any guesses?! Want to get all of our 2025 books (and bonus merch!) in one simple, easy pledge? Our first-ever Book Box campaign launches October 1st!

Tomorrow we are announcing the final author and title for our 2025 lineup! Any guesses?!

Want to get all of our 2025 books (and bonus merch!) in one simple, easy pledge? Our first-ever Book Box campaign launches October 1st!
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If you aren't supporting Josh Rountree then you aren't supporting fiction. Josh's work is a unique quality of grim light, which hits the spectrum of life at such a slant you cannot help but see the color of hope in his pages. One of the best doing it. Buy today.