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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: Climate Change
Climate change is on everyone’s mind’s lately, to the point where “climate fiction” is now a recognized subgenre — both within speculative fiction and without. Given my focus in this Patreon, however, I’m not going to attempt to spin scenarios about what our world might realistically look like in fifty or a hundred years, or […]
Books read, June 2026
The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, Reena McCarty. Something about the marketing of this one — the cover art, the cover copy, and so forth — made me think it’s a cozy novel. It absolutely is not. Which isn’t to say it’s grimdark, because it isn’t that, either; just that the stakes here are higher […]
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 […]
