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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: 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 […]
Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Green Sky Trilogy
Over the years I’ve picked up a few books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder that I remembered loving as a kid — specifically, The Egypt Game and The Velvet Room. But the one I kept wondering about was Below the Root and its sequels (And All Between and Until the Celebration), which form the Green Sky […]
