Ragged Right Media

11/08/2018

FWD is a podcast about the things that move us: the big ideas, fresh perspectives, and new discoveries.

All of season 1 is now available! Give it a listen for in-depth discussions on topics ranging from dealing with gentrification and stress to how we can help kids with behavior issues and learn to play again as adults.

FWD is a podcast about the things that move us: the big ideas, fresh perspectives, and new discoveries.

09/05/2017

26 years after Generation X gave a voice to the collective dissatisfaction of America's lost generation, are we any more content today or have we simply become more lost?

It’s been nearly 26 years since Generation X was published. Although a millennial myself, I picked it off my girlfriend’s bookshelf recently and found it as surprisingly relevant today as when it hit shelves in ’91. Has anything changed whatsoever for the better in the last two decades?

02/25/2017

"The Gertrude Threshold is a poignant, pensive story of the human condition and the end of the world." -IndieReader.com

06/11/2016

Turns out, most authors aren't selling anything – unless you're a bestselling one bankrolling the book industry.

After attending Book Expo America (BEA) and listening to publishers, authors, and experts at the book industry’s largest event, I’ve come to the conclusion I’m not the only who didn’t sell a book in the last month. No one, or at least most authors – whether published by a big or small press or indep...

04/08/2016

Discover the universal steps to success from creatives of all kinds on how they broke into their industries, and how you can, too.

“There’s a lot of luck involved” – Everyone who’s ever dreamed of writing a comic, authoring a book, or making a movie has likely heard something similar.

01/05/2016

If you enjoyed The Gertrude Threshold, check out some other amazing books in the emerging cli-fi (climate-fiction) genre, courtesy of Gizmodo's Maddie Stone.

A world ravaged by climate change is hard to imagine—but that world could be in our future, unless we do a better job of imagining it now. So we’re lucky that some of our most talented authors have tackled the challenge of depicting an environmental apocalypse.

09/28/2015

E-book sales slip as people trade pixels for paperbacks, but indie book sales complicate the black-and-white numbers.

With readers on a reverse migration to print, the “e-book terror has kind of subsided” for bookstores and publishers.

09/12/2015

"You will not forget it once you put it down." Read The Gertrude Threshold's latest review by Rick Chapman, author of Rule-Set.

The Gertrude Threshold is a powerful tale very well told. You will not forget it once you put it down.

06/04/2015

Working your 9-to-5 job might help make your dream of being a writer come true.

"I’m like – no offense – a writer writer, not a corporate advertising, working-for-the-man kind of writer."

04/28/2015

Is creating A.I. more about the next stage in evolution, or dudes getting laid?

Ex Machina asks hard questions about A.I. being the next stage in evolution and even what humanistic qualities might not be worth burdening an A.I. with (such as sexuality). However, I was most intrigued by one question it never asked: Why is Nathan’s A.I., Ava, a woman?

04/15/2015

Are men born good or evil? Demonic Males time travels millions of years to uncover the evolutionary origins of male violence.

In Demonic Males, Authors Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson venture through jungles, scrutinize scientific evidence, and travel back millions of years in an attempt to uncover the origins of human violence and understand why men, specifically, are seemingly culpable for many of the world’s deadlies…