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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
My favorite April Fool’s Day joke ever . . .
. . . is that twenty years ago today, my first novel was published. Psych! My entire career since then has been a trick! The Doppelganger duology, the Onyx Court, the Wilders series, the Memoirs of Lady Trent and their sequel, my Legend of the Five Rings tie-ins, Driftwood, The Waking of Angantyr, the Rook […]
New Worlds: Art Conservation
Ars longa, vita brevis — but even art doesn’t last forever. At least, not without a lot of help. The ephemerality of art does, of course, depend on what you’re doing. Performing arts are fleeting by nature: there’s notation or (nowadays) recording, but when we talk about preserving something like music or dance, we tend […]
New Worlds: The Questionable Art of Forgery
Forgery: where art and crime intersect. Not all kinds of forgery are art, of course. When my fourteen-year-old self forged my father’s signature on my practice records to assure my band director that yes, of course I practiced at home as much as I was supposed to, there was no art involved there. (Rather the […]
