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Author Update May 2026

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 Hello, readers! New author selfie! I ditched the beard and look years younger as a result, because my beard is naturally white but my mustache is naturally black (as of right now). I'm writing a new novel while I wait to hear back from literary agents on my epic fantasy series starter novel I blogged about before. I'm working on a YA magical realism literary-leaning fantasy novel-in-stories. For a long time I've wanted to write a novel using the fantasy tropes from genre fantasy which I love and read a lot of but with the intellectual rigor and literary quality of literary fiction (and a lot of literary fiction in reality lacks such quality and is horrible, but they aspire to it in theory in a way genre authors do not), so I am going for it in this new YA magical realism novel I'm writing. You wouldn't necessarily expect magical realism to be YA, but the plot idea I had which I really like has a kid protagonist and an obviously YA type of plot, so it has ended up b...
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Cute Pics

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 These were so cute, I just need to share them here. These were the 2025 Dunkin Christmas cups.
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Author Update 2026

So, I did another round of editing on my epic high fantasy novel and, strangely, it went from 115,000 words to 108,000 words despite me adding a lot of new things into it that weren't there before. Go figure. My next writing projects are going to be the sequels in the series, plus a book I'm planning to write that will be a collection of three related fantasy and science fiction novellas in one book. I'm still not writing any new nonfiction, but, I mean, I've written like 20 nonfiction books, that's enough to last for a while. Had to put The Gratitude Turkey as a screenplay on the shelf, it's more suited to be stageplay.
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Email Me! @ author.russell.hasan@outlook.com

I realized it got removed from my bio, so I will reshare it here: I accept emails from readers at author.russell.hasan@outlook.com. I check it monthly and will respond if appropriate. Email is the best way to reach me. Sometimes I respond to comments on my Youtube channel but I rarely check my other social media. -Russell
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Author Update

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 Hello, Readers, I've finished my epic high fantasy novel. It combines epic high fantasy with elements of horror, thriller, YA, and disability fiction. It clocked in at almost exactly 115,000 words. Next step: get it published. My next writing project is to turn my novel The Gratitude Turkey into a screenplay! As promised, here is my new author selfie, with my new beard and mustache:
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Author Update! November 2025

 Hello readers, I have completed writing the first draft of book one of my epic high fantasy series and am currently editing it. It's 95,000 words but the editing process may take it to 100,000 words. It's an epic high fantasy with flares of thriller, horror, and YA, and it is a series starter, not a standalone, with two main characters, both of whom are cishet young men in their late teens/early twenties. When I finish editing, I will post another update. I've grown a beard, so my author profile picture is no longer up to date. I expect to post a new photo soon. In food blog news, I recently tried a Nutella-filled Italian donut called a bomba. It was delicious! I also tried a cannoli-filling-filled bomba, which was also good, but the Nutella-filled bomba was slightly better. It's like a giant fried donut stuffed with Nutella. I've also had an idea for a pizza: salmon as a pizza topping. I haven't tried this yet and I haven't seen any local pizza places offe...
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My new author website... You're looking at it

 So, my "new" author website ran into some technical difficulties, so I have redirected RussellHasan.com to my blog... namely, here. If that's where you're joining me from for the first time, welcome! This is my blog. I blog about being an author, and it's also a food blog. I was a vegetarian for a year and blogged about that, and now I blog about pizza. Thanks for reading!
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