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Here are the tools I use.

I'm constantly changing them out, blowing up the old ones, and rebuilding from scratch for another storyline.

Web Presence

Email subscriptions and newsletters are handled by Ghost, previously MailerLite, before that Mailchimp.

This website runs on Ghost and is hosted on PikaPods, previously Digital Ocean. I use Namecheap for the domain name. The theme is Edition.

(Previously,
this site ran on Wordpress.com.
Before that on Squarespace.
Before that on Wordpress.org,
hosted originally on 1and1.com
and then on HostGator.)

Images are usually generated with Midjourney or Firefly, taken by me, or found on Unsplash, unless otherwise noted, and optimized for size with ImageOptim and/or whatever magic the blog and theme do.

The fantastic Deathstar icon is by Jory Raphael (not currently relevant to the site).

Writing

I use Obsidian for writing and keeping track of writing-related notes. Previously, I used (and still really like) Ulysses for writing, Bear for note-taking, and Evernote for keeping track of research. Very occasionally, I use Sublime Text for website code touch-ups.

I also use a real world notebook sometimes. I like the ones from Baron Fig, but I'll use my kid's leftover school notebooks or whatever scraps of paper I can find.

Publishing

The indie author part of my life runs on BookFunnel for free book giveaways, Vellum for ebook and paperback formatting, and Draft2Digital for publishing to all the platforms, except Amazon and Google Play, whom I publish to directly.

Cloud Storage

I have switched from Dropbox to pCloud to iDrive and, finally, to paid iCloud to keep all my stuff backed up online.

Last updated: 2025/03/19