Ascendent Publishing

07/17/2025

10/21/2024

https://youtu.be/MxOK9xbqc3E?feature=shared

10/20/2024

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10/08/2024

DOUBLE FEATURE #6: “SUPERSOLDIER” will be the longest non-annual, regular issue thus far, coming in around 70 pages.

Other than the “SUPERSOLDIER & SUPERSOLDIER 2: REVEILLE” double feature, the last issue features the stories:

By Dan Luby:

“HAVING SEEN ALIEN” -
Script to Screen to Space…to Scream…

“FUZZY LOGIC” -
What kind of an idiot designs an AI with the future of the human race in its control…

….with digital Tourette’s Syndrome to prove a point?

By Jay Fountain Au (under Jay Ellefson)

“GLASSMAN AND THE 7TH RABBIT” -
An emotionless automaton struggles to understand organic life by violent deconstruction…and then learns that NO ONE F***S WITH THE 7TH RABBIT.”

10/06/2024

Internet radio overnight for creatives and mental defectives.

Terrestrial is 94.7 out of New Jersey… for whatever the f**k reason.

10/05/2024

Randomly checked my old author email a half hour ago.

In the inbox was an email from MZD. No idea who the f**k MZD was off the top of my head, but the subject title was “When do I get Crimson Mirror, Grey Shoes?”

I’m sorry. I’m super emotional. Hang on.

Okay.

MZD is Mark Z. Danielewski. No single writer has affected me or shaped my art & how I see the world than any other.

I first met him at a reading in 2008 in Somerville - we had on the exact same color of grey Chuck Taylors and I joked about it with him. I met him again a few years later in 2012…called me grey shoes. Thought that was nice he remembered me.

He wrote of The Ascendant:

“I’m glad you realized you were never broken.

You’re also one of the few I’ve read that knows a writer doesn’t finish the work; the work finishes them. But you’ve only just risen…and yet you follow this mirror colored red? (red was in red colored font obviously).

A broken heart it is then!

When you are finished - I would beg an audience with the Hierophant if I may?

- Z”

This is the second happiest moment of my life, behind the birth of my child. (tears of joy photos available on request lol).
Had to break out my fifty-year sword hardcover to bask in the moment.

09/20/2024

I need an associate director for “Decay”.
Seriously.
Inquire within (DM)