This is not a newsletter.

I know what you're thinking! But this is not a newsletter. It's a field guide for writers who find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, struggling to make meaningful art amid what feels a lot like an apocalypse.

Sam J. Miller has come unstuck in time. He burns like screaming neon through the toxic spiraling labyrinth of spacetime. He frolics in post-human forests where ecstatic green has taken back the planet, and in the belly of smoke-stinking industrial hellscape futures. He rides dinosaurs. He issues dire warnings on fifties street corners.

This is not a newsletter. It's an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives, artists and warriors undercover in a hellscape.

When I was lucky enough to teach at the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer's Workshop, I realized that while I don't have all the answers - I DO have all the questions 😅. I've grappled with the same challenges so many writers are up against, trying to create meaningful art in a time and a space where art isn't valued, where the end of the world feels extremely fucking nigh. Whatever's stumping you or holding you back, I have probably had to figure out my own solution, and I might be able to help you do the same.

Okay YES it's totally a newsletter. It'll have news and updates and events. All that stuff. But it's also a work of speculative fiction, a story spoken directly to artists and activists making art (and change) in a dystopian future where it feels like all is lost. If you're trapped in the same nightmare dystopia as me, I hope you'll opt into a story that centers hope and creativity and resistance and community.