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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
Amishi P. Jha’s Peak Mind
This is a piece of July reading, but I’m pulling it out from the usual booklog (which will come in August) both because I have more than usual to say about it, and because in this case, there’s good reason to mention it before next month. What this book is: a very cogent discussion by […]
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 […]
