Archive - Fictional Influence

The Truth About The Publishing Industry

Insight from an author who saw the ugly truth up close

Aug 28 •

Kristin McTiernan

The Cancel Pigs Are Still Here

Authors are not yet free to say true things

Aug 25 •

Kristin McTiernan

The Need for Radical Rudeness

You have NOT reached Becky from Customer Service

Aug 22 •

Kristin McTiernan

Your Nightmares are Real

Weapons (2025) and the Creatures that never left

Aug 15 •

Kristin McTiernan

Why 90 Million Readers Abandoned Traditional Books

The Rise of Web Novels and My Serial Experiment

Aug 6 •

Kristin McTiernan

Don't Believe All Women (Or Men)

You Might Not Be Lying, But Your Memory Is

Aug 1 •

Kristin McTiernan

July 2025

Pretty. Stupid. Girls.

Feminism says there's no rules for women, and it's putting us in danger

Jul 25 •

Kristin McTiernan

Dear Authors: Not Every Story Belongs on Amazon

Traditional Publishing is Dying; Indies Should Be Innovating

Jul 18 •

Kristin McTiernan

Watchmen: The Woke Show You Hated (But was good)

This is what the film-making left is trying to do

Jul 12 •

Kristin McTiernan

11:00

A Sub-Standard Man is Worse Than Death

What the "Repeal the 19th" crowd fails to realize

Jul 9 •

Kristin McTiernan

Re-Reading 90s YA Slasher Books (Do They Hold Up?)

Richie Tankersley Cusick was RL Stine's feminine counterpart

Jul 5 •

Kristin McTiernan

24:16

When Slim Books Work (and when they don't)

Echo Chamberlain & the slim books that can change your life

Jul 2 •

Kristin McTiernan

and

Echo Chamberlain

14:17

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