News — May to June 2026

Added a 62-page sample of the podcast transcript book What Now with Simo, Season 1 to the Writing 2 page, where it can be downloaded as well as viewed locally.

I also took this opportunity to expand the originally minimal description on that page. The sample includes the detailed table of contents (done in the style of old books), the introduction, and the first episode in full.

Added a 54-page sample of the sheet music book Tales from the North, Book I to the Music I page, where it can be downloaded as well as viewed locally.

That same page also features further information on the book and where to get it.

Added a 50-page sample of the sheet music book An Iceland Symphony, Op. 1: A Theatrical Symphony for All Ages to the Sheet Music page, where it can be downloaded as well as viewed locally.

For more on this book, see its entry on the Music I page.

Added hardcover photos of Solid Gold: David Lynch and Art & Love, Vol. 2 to the Writing 1 and Writing 2 pages respectively. The set of four photos for each can be viewed in the Image Gallery at the bottom of these pages.

Added a 32-page sample of You Never Know What You’ll See in the Haunted Garden, Vol. 2: The Mystery of the Chessboard Cirucs, the second volume of this 3-part graphic novel.

The sample is on the Writing 1 page, where this PDF can be downloaded or leafed through in the embedded viewer.

As mentioned earlier, these volumes consist solely of full two-page spreads, each of which is its own comic book panel, as can be seen even more clearly from this volume.

Published my David Lynch book, Solid Gold: David Lynch — 90 Concise Chapters on Him and His World.

For more, including a sample, see the entry on the Writing 1 page.

Available from The Better Patreon Shop as a PDF ebook and from all Amazon stores worldwide in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle ebook (print replica) form. For example, here it is in the US store.

Added a 22-page sample of You Never Know What You’ll See in the Haunted Garden, Vol. 1, the first volume of this 3-part graphic novel.

The sample is on the Writing 1 page, where this PDF can be downloaded or leafed through in the embedded viewer.

Note that these volumes consist solely of full two-page spreads, each of which is its own comic book panel.

Added a 30-page sample of my first book of poetry, Land of Youth & Beauty: Early Poems, to the Writing 1 page.

The sample PDF can be downloaded or leafed through in the embedded viewer.

For more of my poems not yet published in book form, see the Poems series at The Better Patreon.

Today my creative Patreon, The Better Patreon, launched in April 2025, opened up for everyone with the addition of also a free membership option.

This gives access to the first entry of each series plus a handpicked selection of others now and then.

Paid members still retain all the exclusive access to everything else, including each new book publication as Early Access.

For an overview outlining the status of everything on this Patreon, see this free Creative Journal update. Welcome!

Added an extended sample of the book The Better Patreon, Vol. 1: April 2025 to the Writing 1 page.

As with the earlier samples for other books, this sample PDF can be downloaded or leafed through in the embedded viewer.

The sample features 80 pages from the book, covering the four soft launch posts and the whole first weekly 3-day cycle (all the shares).

These books will soon start coming out at a pace faster than one per month, meaning the series will eventually catch up to the present moment, after which point when each new month is over, its entries will be immediately collected and published in this form.

Worldwide publication of this second volume in the series, now on Amazon as a hardcover, paperback, and Kindle ebook.

See the Writing 2 page for more information and an extended free sample. For the best price for the ebook, check out The Better Patreon Shop.

Added extended samples of Art & Love, Vols. 1 and 2 to the brand-new Writing 2 page.

The sample PDFs can be downloaded or leafed through in the embedded viewers.

The sample for the first volume is 35 pages, the one for the second 32, with both also including the current 2026 catalogue section of all my published and released works so far.

Today featured the two-part, double-length finale for the David Lynch Series at The Better Patreon, with the last six of the 90 chapters, complete with images, including relevant photos from Paris.

This will become a book — title yet to be revealed — which members will get first as Early Access on May Day 2026, about a week before worldwide publication.

Added an extended sample of At Dawn: Early Short Stories to the Writing 1 page.

There you can either download the PDF or leaf through it in the embedded viewer.

About 60 pages from the book, including the first three stories in full, plus the current 2026 catalogue section of all my published and released works so far.

The Better Patreon Newsletter reached its 50th issue, having been published every Monday since the launch of this Patreon on 3 April 2025. This 10-page issue features a special illustrated message to my supporters.

Launching a new book series presenting The Better Patreon in book form: all the content from each month in their own volumes.

Available as a PDF ebook from the Patreon Shop and in the Kindle ebook format from Amazon. 404 pages.

For more on this book, see its entry on the Writing 1 page.