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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
The Writer’s Little Book of Platitudes returns!
Following on last month’s re-release of The Writer’s Little Book of Naming, The Writer’s Little Book of Platitudes is back out in the world! “Show, don’t tell.” “Murder your darlings.” “Write every day.” Certain pieces of advice are widespread in the writing community — but what do they really mean? And are they nuggets of […]
New Worlds: How’s the Weather?
Weather tends to show up in novels merely as a background detail — all too often as an example of the pathetic fallacy, where e.g. it’s raining because the protagonist is sad. Every so often, it rises to the level of plot device: there’s a snowstorm so characters can get snowed in somewhere. Speculative fiction […]
New story, new poem!
July brings with it two new publications! In Flash Point SF (and free to read online) is “How to Get a Head,” a little tale of how to deal with a tsurube otoshi — a giant head out of Japanese folklore. And in the summer issue of Star*Line (but not free to read online), I […]
