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As if to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my first novel hitting the shelves, I have three publications and a roundtable today! “All Under Heaven,” “Gorgoneia,” “In the salt-drowned lands,”, and “Closer to the Heart: A Poetry Roundtable” are all out now!
It’s raining poems! “Core Sample” is out today in DreamForge Anvil.
Another new poem today: “The Virtues of the Throne”, which you can read or listen to at that link!
From the Journal
Books read, May 2026
Much less reading in May than in April. Partly that was because I was less in a mood for reading; partly it was because I started in on some longer, denser books that I didn’t get through before the end of the month. The latter in particular is why this post skews toward shorter, lighter […]
New Worlds: Transhumance
If your mental image of a shepherd is a person with a crook and a dozen sheep on a hillside above a farm, you need to scale up. And also, those sheep probably won’t be on the hillside for very long. Transhumance is, admittedly, one of those topics where my knowledge is noticeably regional. I’m […]
A Sea Beyond prequel novelette!
June is going to be a busy month for me and publications — as in, I think I’m going to have SIX THINGS COMING OUT. (Followed by two more in July.) Two are out today, though one, the flash story “I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?” in Lightspeed, is currently only available to subscribers; […]
