OK, we are less than three months out from pressing the "LAUNCH" button on the Glen Must Die Kickstarter. We know that we've got a great book. We know that we've got comic book writer Paul Jenkins supporting it. We know it's a fabulous practical joke, and an even better anthology. These things we know. But it's time to find out some more things. What gets you interested in a Kickstarter project? This is a collaborative deal--the bigger it gets, the funnier it is that we

All right. By now you know we're running a Kickstarter for Glen Must Die. You know we began the project effectively as a practical joke alongside the amazing Paul Jenkins, creator of The Sentry and the writer of many, many different other comic projects. Here's what I haven't really gotten around to saying yet: Damn are these some good stories. Turns out that authors absolutely love to kill characters. Give them a prompt to make sure a certain character dies, and their cr

So, the Glen Must Die Kickstarter page is finally getting off the ground. This is a culmination of a couple of years' work on our part. When people heard we were doing an anthology with Paul Jenkins, we got swamped with submissions. Sorting through those to find the absolute best of the best has been a task and a half. So you'd think I'd be used to the concept myself. I'm not. This is nothing the fault to do with Paul. Paul is an incredibly kind and giving guy. He is ab

The Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page is now live. Every group of friends has that one guy. You know the one. The scapegoat. The whipping boy. The person who becomes the butt of all jokes. And revels in it. The one who feels undeniably closer to everyone when crude and sometimes profane insults get tossed their way.Even famous comic book authors like Paul Jenkins (Creator of The Sentry and Wolverine: Origin) have such a friend. As you might guess from the title of this proje

Last week, I announced that we'd opened the IW Submission Portal for novel submissions. Predictably, this has resulted in quite a few submissions. I have been keeping up with them--which is good. To date, I have issued four rejection letters and one revise-and-resubmit letter. I want Impulsive Walrus Books to be known as author-friendly throughout the community. And so I haven't issued a single form rejection letter. I think there's value and respect in an author submitt

For the last eight years, IW Books has been a small press that was...well, small. Most of our work with outside authors has been through our eclectic series of anthologies. That is changing. And it is changing today. IW Books wants to be a force for high-quality, hand-crafted, artisanal fiction. No AI-generated books or covers. No sales plan to flood the market with books as quickly as we can. Our goal is to be a quality publisher of science fiction and fantasy. And so

Why AI is killing publishing--and what could grow from its body

For those of you who are fans of Impulsive Walrus, you may have noticed that our website has been...degrading in recent history. The fact of the matter is, our old site did us well for a while, but it just isn't up to the rigors of the modern environment. We needed something a little bit beefier. A little more muscular. Something that wasn't getting hacked by trolls every other day. And something with a bit more flexibility in what we could offer. So instead of updating t

JordanCon 2026 is now part of the history books, and what a fabulous time we had, with great friends old and new! The writing track this year centered around what it means to write, why people write, and what compels authors (or editors really) to keep putting their pens to the page. Frog spoke on several very insightful panels, including one about subtext and themes. And he also mentored several folks in networking in the publishing/writing world workshops. Bar con really

Hi everyone! You've probably noticed that our old website at impulsivewalrusbooks.com has been down for a while-- or maybe not! Maybe you got redirected here. Either way, Frog and I are happy to see you! We had outgrown the old WordPress site in a number of ways, so we're excited to start trying out all the bells and whistles of this new site! The newly re-invented impulsivewalrus.online does several things that the old one just wasn't suited for: We have a website with s