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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
New Worlds: Fasting
Somewhere in the course of childhood, I got the impression that “fasting” meant “not eating anything.” This isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete: as shown by the well-known custom of Lent in the Roman Catholic Church, there are degrees of fasting, from the token to the incredibly strict. On the lighter end, one might fast by […]
Books read, August 2026
Short list for me this month. I did not have a ton of brain for reading, and then the latter part of the month got devoured by 1) preparing for Worldcon and 2) being at Worldcon. (Normally it wouldn’t be so bad, but running a table in the dealers’ hall entails a lot of stock […]
New World: Military Communication
Uniforms, heraldry, flags. In a military context, these all serve the crucial purpose of communication. And if they seem like fairly primitive methods of achieving that, well, for most of history, primitive methods are all we’ve had. When it comes to communication — whether that’s signaling to troops on the battlefield or sending a message […]
