New Worlds: The Textile Arts
I’m a big fan of weaving, embroidery, and the various other textile arts that are the subject of this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay. Comment over there!
Posts Tagged ‘book view cafe’
Readings on YouTube!
Book View Cafe has started up a YouTube channel for author readings — it’s a great way to sample the works in our catalogue, if you enjoy listening to fiction as well as reading it on the page. I’ve done recordings of samples for many of my titles there, and those are starting to roll out; if you want to hear me reading the prologue from Midnight Never Come or from In Ashes Lie, go check ’em out!
New Worlds: Dirt and Sand
Our second “functional arts” essay for the New Worlds Patreon is kind of a twofer, maybe a threefer: ceramics, glass, and a side diversion into the more decorative topic of mosaics! Comment over there . . .
coming soon: a new short story collection!
It’s been several years since I put out one of my mini-short story collections, but a new one is en route! A Breviary of Fire honestly could have been ready a bit sooner, but I fell into a slightly OCD determination to balance out the regional groupings within the collection so they had equal numbers of stories. Because of this, the publication dates of the stories range from 2005 to 2023. They’re all based on folklore and mythology in some fashion, but not European fairy tales (those have gone into Monstrous Beauty and Never After), nor on folksongs (those will be getting their own collection, probably next year).
A Breviary of Fire will be out on the twenty-first of this month. You can preorder it via the links here or wait for it to come out so you can buy it direct from the publisher, Book View Cafe; there will also be a print edition, but I’ve been juggling too many things to have that quiiiite ready in time for simultaneous publication with the ebook. I will definitely post here when the ebook and print pub dates happen, though!
New Worlds: The Art of Architecture
The May theme for the New Worlds Patreon is the functional arts, so we’re segueing out of ancient ruins into architecture as an art form! Comment over there.
New Worlds: Lost Cities and Ancient Ruins
The New Worlds Patreon is ending April with a topic near and dear to my archaeological heart: the question of how much ancient sites are ever truly “lost.” Comment over there!
New Worlds: Lines in the Earth
Not all ancient works take the form of giant rocks. Some of them are carved into the earth itself — so the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at geoglyphs! Comment over there.
New Worlds: Megalithic Architecture
The Pyramids of Egypt, the Argonath of Gondor . . . the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the wonders of megalithic architecture. Comment over there!
New Worlds: Kilroy Was Here
For April the New Worlds Patreon is taking a jaunt through ancient relics in the landscape — though as long as we’re talking about prehistoric rock art, I figured we might include modern graffiti as well! Comment over there . . .
New Worlds Theory Post: Be a Goat
Year Eight of the New Worlds Patreon is going to be a busy one for theory posts, as there are five months with five Fridays in them! To start us off, I recommend the merits of being a goat — comment over there!
New Worlds: Atheism
Lack of belief in gods is not solely a modern concept, as this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay explores. Comment over there!
New Worlds: One (True) God
The New Worlds Patreon has talked a lot about religion, but in all this time, it hasn’t yet gotten around to monotheism. That changes today — comment over there!
New Worlds: Esoteric Mysteries
Is everything about a religion available for people to know, or are there secret teachings and rites limited to only proper initiates? The New Worlds Patreon takes a look at esotericism vs. exotericism — comment over there!
New Worlds: Veneration of the Dead
Today we begin Year Eight of the New Worlds Patreon! Once again we turn our attention to religion, beginning with the veneration of the dead — comment over there . . .
New Worlds: Sacred Architecture
For the final essay of Year Seven, the New Worlds Patreon contemplates the divine — or rather, the places where we do that contemplation . . . comment over there!
New Worlds: Urban Housing
The New Worlds Patreon returns to less exciting essay titles as it takes a look at common patterns for how urban houses are laid out. Comment over there!
New Worlds: We Built This City
It’s “shameless allusions in the titles” time at the New Worlds Patreon. Our second essay for the month is the second half of the look at building materials — you can guess where it’s headed! Comment over there . . .
New Worlds: Houses of Sticks and Straw
Yes, the New Worlds Patreon is making a “Three Little Pigs” reference, as this week’s essay is (one of two) about building materials! Comment over there . . .
New Worlds: Double Trouble
No, you’re not seeing double: the New Worlds Patreon is talking about twins this week! Comment over there.
New Worlds: Little Orphan Whoever
The New Worlds Patreon will neither blame you nor accept the blame if you get earwormed this week by songs from the musical Annie, as we turn to the topic of orphanages! Comment over there.
