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Joel Higgins

Joel Higgins

is a writer, performer, and all-around video connoisseur based in Connecticut. If you're looking for a swashbucking, handsome, Westley from The Princess Bride-esque man, then you should definitely come to Joel's Dungeons & Dragons games, because he creates them all the time. In real life, he's been known to enjoy levels of nerditude unparalleled (in this galaxy) and is an avid Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction reader.

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Joel Higgins

Fiction

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Shares His Impressive Reading List

If you were a young-ish person in the 90s, chances are you know all about Michael Stipe. As the frontman of R.E.M., Stipe paved a voraciously artistic path that cut right through the otherwise Grunge-riddled decade. Stipe’s cerebral performance style and unabashed insistence on self-expression was quite inspiring to me…
Joel Higgins
August 17, 2015
Thrillers

Genre-Redefining True Crime Author Ann Rule Passes Away

“Three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.” – Ann Rule,…
Joel Higgins
July 28, 2015
Captivating Claire Book CoverMiscellany

Scamming Amazon: Creating a Fake Bestseller in One Week

It’s no secret that the world of self-publishing on Amazon has been mired in controversy for years. But recently, I came across a story about an Amazon “success” that I feel perfectly illustrates the problem. The Hustle writer John Havel This is John Havel. He’s a writer for The Hustle,…
Joel Higgins
July 24, 2015
Fiction

Dr. Seuss Returns Thanks to a Box of Forgotten Drawings

It was the summer of 2009. I had failed out of college (I’ve since graduated), was bumming on a friend’s couch, and was unemployed. I sat on my friend’s stoop angst-ridden, unsure of the future, desperate tears streaming down my face. And then, for reasons I don’t grasp, a line…
Joel Higgins
July 22, 2015
Nonfiction

Allie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again

As someone who can only barely remember a time before the internet, I tend to give the online world a whole lot of legitimacy. So when popular online figures extend their reach into the world of traditional publishing, I usually meet the announcement with a less than enthusiastic, “Meh.” But…
Joel Higgins
July 8, 2015
Miscellany

Why I Gave My Fitbit Away: A Cautionary Tale

Look, it’s no secret that I’m prone to bouts of unbelievable idiocy. There was the time I decided rock climbing was, “totally the exercise I’ve always been looking for” and wound up on display, stricken with vertigo half-way up a rock wall in a crowded shopping mall. I’d known I…
Joel Higgins
July 6, 2015

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