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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: Industrialization
There’s a particular type of alternate history whose premise is: what if [fill in the blank past society] industrialized? (Rome is a particular magnet for this.) The challenge of such speculation is that we have precisely one data point for what de novo industrialization looks like. Many parts of the world have industrialized, but they’ve […]
My Lightspeed story is now free online!
I mentioned at the start of this month that I had a new flash story in Lightspeed; now it is free to read online! Or you can follow the same link to listen to it instead, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. As the title implies, “I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?” is modeled after the […]
The Writer’s Little Books return!
After a hiatus in which it wasn’t on sale anywhere, The Writer’s Little Book of Naming is now available once again! This is a micro guide to things you might think about while coming up with personal names, place names, and in-world terms for your fiction; it’s a deeper dive than my Patreon essays, in […]
