If that sounds like early 2000s Blogging… well, that’s pretty much what it is. You get an RSS Feed, etc. It’s the type of space my own HAIL SATEN used to live. Between Patreon and Substack, I currently have no need for such a thing here in the summer of 2026, but I suppose it might be useful should I ever want to migrate this daily Blog off my site for some reason — or perhaps as a mirror for this Blog. I’ll hold off on signing up but may check back in on it from time to time.

Meanwhile, there's the matter of real estate to consider. And if you're a writer, regardless of whatever level of success you currently deem yourself to be at, real estate is always a consideration. The smart move is to claim your name on every new social media platform that comes along, regardless of whether you use it or not. Don't use X/Twitter? That's okay. A lot of writers don't anymore either. But if you don't have your real estate staked there, what's to stop an imposter from setting up an account in your name and pretending to be you? We see this happening more and more, particularly with AI-generated scams. "Hello dear readers," says the bot pretending to be you. "I am author of " and then sooner or later it's bilking your readers of their money or posting racist screeds in your name.

So, this little thousand word bit of writing can serve as my placeholder here on Tuhat, a service that I may or may not use down the road.

Hello, dear readers. I am Brian Keene, the author of over fifty books and three-hundred short stories — mostly horror, crime, fantasy, and nonfiction. They have been translated into over a dozen different languages and have won numerous awards -- including but not limited to -- two Bram Stoker Awards, a World Horror Grand Master Award, and about two dozen others. My 2003 novel, The Rising, is credited with inspiring pop culture’s recurrent interest in zombies. My work has been praised or featured in the The New York Times, The History Channel, The Howard Stern Show, CNN, The Huffington Post, Bleeding Cool, Publisher’s Weekly, Fangoria, Bloody Disgusting, and Rue Morgue Magazine.

I have also written for such media properties as Doctor Who, Thor, Aliens, Harley Quinn, The X-Files, Doom Patrol, Justice League, Hellboy, Superman, and Masters of the Universe. I was the showrunner for Realm Media and Blackbox TV’s Silverwood: The Door.

Several of my novels and stories have been adapted for film, including Ghoul, The Naughty List, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck. Keene also served as Executive Producer for the feature length film I’m Dreaming of a White Doomsday and the forthcoming Dead Format.

From 2015 to 2020, I hosted the immensely popular and award-winning The Horror Show with Brian Keene podcast. I also hosted (along with Christopher Golden) the long-running Defenders Dialogue podcast, and (with Jim Cobb and Dacia Arnold) the How To Survive 2025 limited series podcast. I currently host the weekly podcast Keeneversations

I also serve on the Board of Directors for the Scares That Care 501c charity organization, which helps sick children, burn survivors, and those battling breast cancer.

In 2026, I've been making a concerted effort to use social media less and less (except for promotion), preferring instead to limit my online writing to Patreon, Substack, and my website. Those can be found at:

Website

Patreon

Substack

The website has a Blog that gets updated for free most days. The Patreon costs $5 a month and is updated twice daily. The five buck a month instantly unlocks tens of thousands of previous posts -- short stories, essays, serialized novels, podcast episodes, and more. The Substack serves as a weekly Sunday newsletter, which has always been free and will always be free.

All of my work is 100% me-written. I do not use generative AI. While I believe that AI may some day provide a useful role in applications such as disease cure or space travel, I also believe that generative AI is an abomination built on large scale theft of the copyrighted, uncopyrighted, and intellectual property of hundreds of thousands of artists -- writers, illustrators, filmmakers, musicians, comedians, etc. I believe that creators whose works were used to train generative AI should now be fairly compensated, and I believe ethical guardrails must be installed going forward, with clear contracts and permissions outlining usage and compensation.

One hundred and fifty one words to go, so, in closing, just let me say fuck AI, fuck AI, fuck AI, fuck AI, fuck AI, fuck AI, and fuck AI.

Okay, I guess that's a little obnoxious. How about this instead? Your friends, neighbors, and those complete and total strangers you encounter in the parking lot at WalMart are all more on edge these days, whether they know it or not. Now, more than ever, is the time to practice being kind. That's easy when the person next to you is being kind. It's harder when it's some brain-damaged doofus in the grips of road rage delirium because of some perceived offense. But those are the folks we need to practice it upon the most.

Of course, being kind will only get you so far. The moment a punch or a kick is heading your way, it's probably foolish to continue the effort. But if more of us can diffuse, then the fuse that sticks out of planet Earth -- a fuse that looks very much like the one on a cherry bomb, that has burned down almost to the end, may begin to burn a little slower or be snuffed out entirely.

Yours,

Brian Keene