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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: Public Transit
It’s possible, even in surprisingly ancient times, to have hugely sprawling cities — but they’re not quite the same type of sprawl we see today. The reason is simple: how are you going to get around? A city that is a mile or so across can be traversed on foot in half an hour, give […]
Books read, April 2026
Painted Devils, Margaret Owen. Second of the Little Thieves trilogy, which I started last month and promptly fell in love with. Most trilogies, having clearly established a romantic relationship in the first book, would immediately start the second book by finding some way to break up the pair or otherwise put them on the outs […]
New Worlds: Suburban Sprawl
Suburbs are such a characteristic feature of the twentieth century, especially here in the United States, that you’d be forgiven for assuming they’re a wholly modern phenomenon. In fact, the general concept of “not quite in the city, but very much associated with it” is very old; it’s just the scale and to some extent […]
