Mike Rusetsky Octopus Ink
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  • Life Update

    Life Update

    Reading Time: 5 minutesHi reader friends, I debated myself for a long time about putting this update out there. After all, this is not a personal blog but my author website, reserved for sharing my creative ventures, literary musings, and silly speculative stories. But that’s the thing about boundaries: they are difficult to keep at…

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  • The Book Nook Strikes Back: My Top 3 Book Series Recommendations

    Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not going to lie, reader friends: life be lifin’ as of late. 2026 has been a relentlessly difficult year for my personal life. My creative writing career, however, has been thriving. This has established a dissonance that will surely enrich many of my future fictional works with great character development, but…

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  • My Debut Novella!

    Reading Time: 3 minutesReader friends, what a special time we live in! I’m excited to report that after publishing 33 short stories and essays (vast majority in anthologies and magazines), I finally get to publish a standalone novella! This is tremendous news, as I’ve dreamed of having my own name on the cover (with nobody…

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  • Guess I’m a total snob now

    Reading Time: 5 minutesHello, reader friends! Here’s the latest update from me, and you’ll never believe my latest development. Turns out, I’ve gone literary on you! That’s right. All this time you thought I was a horror hound, a sci-fi stan, a fantasy freak, and a comedy connoisseur. Well, no more! Because in the last…

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