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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: Queen Bees
So far we’ve been talking about friendship in a one-to-one sense, as a relationship between only two people at a time. But of course, we all exist in a much larger social world — even during periods when that existence is best defined by a position firmly outside the circle. What does friendship look like […]
Books read, March 2026
This month I finally did something I should have done ages ago: I checked out every library ebook currently available from my wishlist there and put holds on as many others as they would let me hold at once, so I could browse — the way I once would have done in a bookstore. The […]
New Worlds: Let’s Be Friends
Friendship hardly seems like something that needs worldbuilding. It’s a basic human behavior, right? We all make friends? Sure — but what friendship means does not stay the same. Starting at: Who can you be friends with? Then and now, social divisions may complicate the answer to that. Can men and women be friends? If […]
