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My longtime friend Alyc Helms and I wrote a book together last year, the first of the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy — and we have just sold it to Orbit Books! It will come out under the joint pen name M.A. Carrick.
The Lady Trent short story “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind” is now free to read on the Uncanny Magazine website!
After a year and a half of sitting on this news, I’m finally clear to announce that I’ve written a novella for the game Legend of the Five Rings: The Eternal Knot, which you can pre-order now!
From the Journal
Back to Square Two
I mentioned before that I’m trying to get (some tiny fraction of) my embouchure back so I can play in the band’s 100th reunion next month. Unrelatedly — you would think — I also recently did bo kata for the first time in a couple of years, having stopped doing weapons for a time because […]
Stories!
As of yesterday, I have two new stories out: my anthropological novelette “La Molejera” (as in, it’s literally about an anthropologist) and my folkloric short story “This is How.” I need to talk about that second one a bit, because it’s a huge milestone for me. You see, I sent my first story to Strange […]
Rook and Rose Book 2, Chapter 5
With this, Part One is complete, and the plot has taken center stage at last! I mean, it’s been present before this. But in a strand here, a strand there; this is the first time the reader gets a good look at the overall shape of it, and how those strands are all going to […]
