Joshua Saxon
@saxonaudio.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Owl, Fixer, Storyteller, master of puns.
I read books like it’s my job!
Oh wait… it is!
Email me at: [email protected]
www.saxonaudio.com
https://youtube.com/@saxonaudio?si=T-bWSyxuX5EPlOwy
He/Him/Owl
I read books like it’s my job!
Oh wait… it is!
Email me at: [email protected]
www.saxonaudio.com
https://youtube.com/@saxonaudio?si=T-bWSyxuX5EPlOwy
He/Him/Owl
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Joshua Saxon
@saxonaudio.bsky.social
· Aug 16
Hero of Dreams
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Something vital is missing from David Hero's comfortable, ordinary existence. one day is much like the next, simple, predictable... boring. But the nights! ...
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Are you ready for the start of the adventure? The inimitable Brian Lumley’s first book in his Dreamlands Series: Hero of Dreams narrated by yours truly and available now on #Audible and #AudibleUK. Produced by @crossroadpress.bsky.social. Get your copy today!
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“This is not a journey toward glory. This is not a journey toward meaning. This is a journey toward completion.”
Earth called it exploration. He called it a release from the burden of living. Mars called it nothing at all.
A novel of ascetic negation.
Coming in two weeks.
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Earth called it exploration. He called it a release from the burden of living. Mars called it nothing at all.
A novel of ascetic negation.
Coming in two weeks.
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Silence: The Red Ascesis by Joshua Saxon
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September 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
“This is not a journey toward glory. This is not a journey toward meaning. This is a journey toward completion.”
Earth called it exploration. He called it a release from the burden of living. Mars called it nothing at all.
A novel of ascetic negation.
Coming in two weeks.
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Earth called it exploration. He called it a release from the burden of living. Mars called it nothing at all.
A novel of ascetic negation.
Coming in two weeks.
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Thinking of writing a book about Henry V or Henry of Monmouth.
September 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Thinking of writing a book about Henry V or Henry of Monmouth.
Anybody want to buy me the folio society edition of The Wasp Factory?
September 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Anybody want to buy me the folio society edition of The Wasp Factory?
"I was selected because I did not ask to come back. Because I did not require the idea of home in order to function. I sought a completion to the exhaustion of the demand of living."
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Silence: The Red Ascesis by Joshua Saxon
books2read.com
September 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
"I was selected because I did not ask to come back. Because I did not require the idea of home in order to function. I sought a completion to the exhaustion of the demand of living."
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
A woman and her daughter are caught up in the Ottoman Massacre of Chios in 1822. Written from various vantage points the novel recounts the days before and the years following the event.
Currently seeking a historical fiction #literaryagent for this novel.
#historicalfiction #history #greece
Currently seeking a historical fiction #literaryagent for this novel.
#historicalfiction #history #greece
September 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM
A woman and her daughter are caught up in the Ottoman Massacre of Chios in 1822. Written from various vantage points the novel recounts the days before and the years following the event.
Currently seeking a historical fiction #literaryagent for this novel.
#historicalfiction #history #greece
Currently seeking a historical fiction #literaryagent for this novel.
#historicalfiction #history #greece
[537046-busy-city-life]
September 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
[537046-busy-city-life]
The worst part about having a great idea for a story and then writing it is finding out another author had it already and published it and then having to move on.
Back to the drawing board.
Back to the drawing board.
September 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
The worst part about having a great idea for a story and then writing it is finding out another author had it already and published it and then having to move on.
Back to the drawing board.
Back to the drawing board.
"I was selected because I did not ask to come back. Because I did not require the idea of home in order to function. I sought a completion to the exhaustion of the demand of living."
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Silence: The Red Ascesis by Joshua Saxon
books2read.com
August 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
"I was selected because I did not ask to come back. Because I did not require the idea of home in order to function. I sought a completion to the exhaustion of the demand of living."
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
"A lifespan is a narrative trick. It allows present misery to be excused by future resolution. It turns suffering into investment."
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Silence: The Red Ascesis by Joshua Saxon
books2read.com
August 24, 2026 at 1:56 PM
"A lifespan is a narrative trick. It allows present misery to be excused by future resolution. It turns suffering into investment."
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
“Earth teaches that suffering must escalate to be meaningful. Here, suffering plateaued. It became background. It did not demand interpretation. It simply occupied space.
I realized then that the most deceptive illusion about the body is that it is ever central.”
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
I realized then that the most deceptive illusion about the body is that it is ever central.”
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Silence: The Red Ascesis by Joshua Saxon
books2read.com
August 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
“Earth teaches that suffering must escalate to be meaningful. Here, suffering plateaued. It became background. It did not demand interpretation. It simply occupied space.
I realized then that the most deceptive illusion about the body is that it is ever central.”
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
I realized then that the most deceptive illusion about the body is that it is ever central.”
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
I hate that “not x. Not y. But z” phrasing has become synonymous with AI. I use it all over my debut novel as both a function of the ascetic stripping of the narrator but also because it is a beautiful way to describe rejection with unmitigated clarity. I despise AI’s corruption of our language.
August 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I hate that “not x. Not y. But z” phrasing has become synonymous with AI. I use it all over my debut novel as both a function of the ascetic stripping of the narrator but also because it is a beautiful way to describe rejection with unmitigated clarity. I despise AI’s corruption of our language.
“This planet did not promise me meaning or release. It allowed me to stop asking for it.”
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Silence: The Red Ascesis by Joshua Saxon
books2read.com
August 22, 2026 at 10:30 PM
“This planet did not promise me meaning or release. It allowed me to stop asking for it.”
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
books2read.com/u/mdpDKX
One of the hardest things to do with my debut novel was to design a repetitive sentence and language structure that would allow me to strip it bare acting as a mirror to the ascetic stripping away the narrator goes through until only the bones of language are left to communicate anything at the end.
August 18, 2026 at 2:40 AM
One of the hardest things to do with my debut novel was to design a repetitive sentence and language structure that would allow me to strip it bare acting as a mirror to the ascetic stripping away the narrator goes through until only the bones of language are left to communicate anything at the end.
I’ve decided to step away from writing. It’s too much stress and I find I’m not satisfied with anything I do and it’s depressing me. Bad for my mental health.
August 17, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I’ve decided to step away from writing. It’s too much stress and I find I’m not satisfied with anything I do and it’s depressing me. Bad for my mental health.
Are you ready for the start of the adventure? The inimitable Brian Lumley’s first book in his Dreamlands Series: Hero of Dreams narrated by yours truly and available now on #Audible and #AudibleUK. Produced by @crossroadpress.bsky.social. Get your copy today!
www.audible.com/pd/Hero-of-D...
www.audible.com/pd/Hero-of-D...
Hero of Dreams
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Something vital is missing from David Hero's comfortable, ordinary existence. one day is much like the next, simple, predictable... boring. But the nights! ...
www.audible.com
August 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Are you ready for the start of the adventure? The inimitable Brian Lumley’s first book in his Dreamlands Series: Hero of Dreams narrated by yours truly and available now on #Audible and #AudibleUK. Produced by @crossroadpress.bsky.social. Get your copy today!
www.audible.com/pd/Hero-of-D...
www.audible.com/pd/Hero-of-D...
The Registry had invested in ergonomic adequacy several years before Jakob’s arrival, following a period in which an occupational health consultant’s report had suggested that the chairs then in use were the source of a disproportionate number of lower-back complaints.
August 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Registry had invested in ergonomic adequacy several years before Jakob’s arrival, following a period in which an occupational health consultant’s report had suggested that the chairs then in use were the source of a disproportionate number of lower-back complaints.
Why are so many of the writing patterns I learned while learning about writing now considered AI indicators?!
August 14, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Why are so many of the writing patterns I learned while learning about writing now considered AI indicators?!
Opening of my new WIP: Jakob Moser had been a processor at the Registry for eleven years when he first encountered something he could not process.
The Registry occupied the upper floors of a building whose lower floors he had never visited.
The Registry occupied the upper floors of a building whose lower floors he had never visited.
August 11, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Opening of my new WIP: Jakob Moser had been a processor at the Registry for eleven years when he first encountered something he could not process.
The Registry occupied the upper floors of a building whose lower floors he had never visited.
The Registry occupied the upper floors of a building whose lower floors he had never visited.
It’s the exhaustion of being alive to deal with life. It’s ridiculous. It’s pointless.
Life is pointless.
Why do we put ourselves through this everyday?
There’s no need. We should be done with this all.
Together.
No suffering. No continuation. No impositions.
Just blissful non-existence.
Exit bag.
Life is pointless.
Why do we put ourselves through this everyday?
There’s no need. We should be done with this all.
Together.
No suffering. No continuation. No impositions.
Just blissful non-existence.
Exit bag.
July 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
It’s the exhaustion of being alive to deal with life. It’s ridiculous. It’s pointless.
Life is pointless.
Why do we put ourselves through this everyday?
There’s no need. We should be done with this all.
Together.
No suffering. No continuation. No impositions.
Just blissful non-existence.
Exit bag.
Life is pointless.
Why do we put ourselves through this everyday?
There’s no need. We should be done with this all.
Together.
No suffering. No continuation. No impositions.
Just blissful non-existence.
Exit bag.
What drug does the FritoLay company put in Doritos to make them so irresistible?!!!
July 27, 2026 at 7:50 PM
What drug does the FritoLay company put in Doritos to make them so irresistible?!!!
Not one.
Not two.
Three microwaved golden potatoes.
They were topped with butter, salt, and pepper.
They were glorious.
Not two.
Three microwaved golden potatoes.
They were topped with butter, salt, and pepper.
They were glorious.
July 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Not one.
Not two.
Three microwaved golden potatoes.
They were topped with butter, salt, and pepper.
They were glorious.
Not two.
Three microwaved golden potatoes.
They were topped with butter, salt, and pepper.
They were glorious.
Writing this novel is like being possessed, not by demons, not by obsession, not by inspiration, but by the nameless qualities that lead one to be witness to a part of history forgotten by most. It is an excavation of Greek women’s history and a testament to their resilience.
July 14, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Writing this novel is like being possessed, not by demons, not by obsession, not by inspiration, but by the nameless qualities that lead one to be witness to a part of history forgotten by most. It is an excavation of Greek women’s history and a testament to their resilience.