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You Need a Book!
They say bad weather is coming and that’s a great time to sit down with a new book! Get it on Amazon or a signed copy at wjbrendle.com
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What’s the Real Secret of Getting Published?
Why Talent Isn’t the Only Thing That Matters Anymore Originally Published on Medium Would Stephen King Get Signed Today? That sounds like a strange question, until you think about it for more than a moment. Not Stephen King now. Not the brand. Not the name that sells millions of copies on sight. The Stephen King…
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We Never Have Enough Time
And Other Things We Tell Ourselves Previously published on Medium. I don’t believe time exists the way we think it does. Not as a force moving forward. Not as a river carrying us from past to future. What we call time feels more like a mental scaffold. Something we built to keep change from overwhelming…
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When the Jury Asked the Dead
A true case, 1994, a British murder conviction was overturned Originally published on Medium. Harry and Nicola Fuller were found dead in their home in Wadhurst in February 1993. The house wasn’t torn apart. Nothing looked rushed. Nicola was bound and gagged near the phone. Harry was upstairs. Both had been shot. It was close.…
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When Belief Pulled the Trigger
A true 1923 case from Biggs, California. Originally published on Medium. In 1923, a woman told police a Ouija board warned her that her husband would kill her. She shot him first. When the gun went off in Biggs, California, it wasn’t the sound that unsettled the town. A single shot in a farming community…
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You Chose This. You Kept Choosing It.
A new year and a new you? Start here. Previously Published on Medium What happened to you wasn’t your fault.Staying after you understood it was.No one owes you sympathy for the life you keep choosing. You don’t have to know you’re the problem for the pattern to exist. Most people don’t. They just notice that…
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What Stayed Behind After New Year’s Eve
Originally published on Medium. The party at Key West’s La Concha Hotel on New Year’s Eve in 1982 was loud and happy, but the fun did not last. There is always a time after the bell rings at midnight when the night drops out of itself. The shouting stops. The music fades. What’s left feels…
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Exploring the Forgotten, the Feared, and the Misunderstood
My work examines the edges of belief, history, and human experience. From cryptids and regional folklore to the documented practice of dark magick and the real stories behind witch trials, these books focus on evidence, context, and the people caught inside the stories. This isn’t sensationalism. It’s investigation. Each book stands on historical sources, firsthand…
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How Dark Magick Was Actually Used
When people hear the phrase dark magick, they tend to imagine extremes. Fantasy. Fear. Something theatrical and rare. The historical reality is quieter and far more common. For most of history, dark magick wasn’t a separate category or moral warning. It was simply magick used when protection failed, when justice felt unreachable, or when ordinary…
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Why Yule Still Matters, Even If You Celebrate Christmas
Yule rests in the calendar like some odd gap of time. The date is known, but the meaning slips by most. People force their way through the month with lights and lists and every noise that December brings, that’s fine, but it makes them miss what happens around the shortest day. Those days between the…