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11/20/2025

The Problem with Easy Money
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11/20/2025

As the illustrious Arthur Conan Doyle reminds us, imagination can be the gateway to all things wonderful and all things terrible. It’s for us to decide which path to follow 🤔📚.

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11/20/2025

11/20/2025

Indie authors have plenty of options to turn to for support in their publishing journey, but not all resources are looking out for your best interest. This week, we go over Part 1 of How to Spot Indie Author Publishing Scams.

https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/how-to-spot-indie-author-publishing-scams-part-1/

11/20/2025

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11/20/2025

America’s gentlest poet carried a lifetime of grief — and turned it into the most hauntingly beautiful words we’ve ever read

Robert Frost wasn’t the warm grandfather we imagine when we think of snowy woods and quiet roads.
He was a man who lost almost everything — and somehow kept writing anyway.
Four children buried.
A wife he adored gone too soon.
A son lost to despair.
And a life that taught him early that the world does not promise safety.

He grew up poor, anxious, and brilliant — a boy who read by candlelight while his father drank himself sick and died before Robert turned twelve.
By twenty, he had buried his first child.
By his thirties, he was a failed teacher, failed farmer, failed editor… and a desperate writer with nowhere left to go.

So he gambled everything.
He sold the family farm and moved his wife and children to England — a reckless leap that became the turning point of his life.

In a tiny cottage near Beaconsfield, Frost finally found his voice.
He wrote the poems that would make him immortal — Mending Wall, Birches, Home Burial, and the seeds of the verses generations would memorize.

People saw pastoral calm.
But inside the lines were razor blades — grief, exhaustion, loneliness, choices that left bruises, and the quiet ache of trying to carry on.

Loss followed him for decades.
His daughter Marjorie died after childbirth.
His wife Elinor passed away, leaving him shattered.
His son took his own life, and Frost found him.
One tragedy after another… yet he kept writing, not to escape pain but to survive it.

That’s why “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” feels peaceful at first — until you realize Frost was writing about the temptation to give up, and the courage it takes to keep going.

By 1961, he was an American icon — white-haired, revered, undefeated by the life that tried to break him.
At JFK’s inauguration, when the sunlight blinded him and he couldn’t read the poem he’d written, he simply set it aside and recited another from memory.
A poet too old to see the page, but strong enough to deliver the moment anyway.

Robert Frost wasn’t soft.
He was steel wrapped in snow.
A man who carried unbearable grief and somehow turned it into lanterns we still hold when life gets dark.

His poems remain because they’re not about nature — they’re about us.
Our crossroads.
Our fences.
Our promises.
Our long walks through nights that feel endless.
Our decision to take one more step when we’re not sure we can.

Fun Fact:
John F. Kennedy admired Frost so deeply that he insisted the poet speak at his inauguration, calling him the “soundtrack of the American spirit.”

Some stories don’t just teach us — they walk beside us when the woods get dark.



Sources:
Poetry Foundation
Biography
JFK Library

11/20/2025

In our December issue: James Vincent reports on inflated promises of humanoid robots and the tech-industry hype machine; an essay from Christian Wiman on consciousness, mysticism and quantum theory; a photo portfolio from Victor J. Blue from Syria after the fall of the Assad regime; Lauren Hilgers on the childcare affordability crisis; Lola Seaton on Chris Kraus; and a new story from Brontez Purnell. Read more at the link in our bio. ⁠
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Cover illustration by Timo Lenzen.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/

11/20/2025

11/20/2025

N.K. Jemisin Named SFWA Grand Master https://locusmag.com/2025/11/jemisin-named-sfwa-grand-master/

11/20/2025

Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money

11/20/2025

Capture Readers With Better Book Descriptions (For Fiction) https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/capture-readers-with-better-book-descriptions-for-fiction/