Stark Reflections On Writing And Publishing

Mark interviews Riley Odell, an autistic writer of horror, humor, and bizarro stories. As an autism/neurodiversity advocate, Riley is working on a speculative fiction anthology about neurodiverse characters written by neurodiverse writers called Divergent Realms: Speculative Stories About Neurodiversity. Prior to the interview, Mark shares a personal update and a word from this episode's sponsor. You can learn more about how you can get your audiobooks distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway. During their conversation, Mark and Riley talk about: How Riley first started off writing by creating silly comic strips back in the third grade, moving to prose fiction by the time he was about twelve years old, and has pretty much been writing ever since Years of working on various unfinished projects, but having found a groove just a few years ago The ways in which his wife has helped Riley with his writing Riley's two short story collections (Vile Visions and Od