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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: Home Production
Given the surge in popularity of “tradwife” influencers these days, it seems an appropriate time to take a direct look at what it actually means for everything you need to be produced at home. Starting with two basic facts: first, that essentially nobody has ever produced everything they need at home. And second, that the […]
Stunt poem-ing
Some poetic forms very nearly amount to stunt writing, and I feel that a rhymed, iambic quatern double is one of them. But 1) the quatern double really suited my subject matter and 2) in the challenge/contest where I wrote it, someone else had done it rhymed and iambic, so of course I wanted to […]
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 […]
