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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 Theory Post: Worldbuilding for Other Media
There’s been an implicit assumption in most of my essays — and often an explicit one in certain craft-0riented theory essays — that I’m talking about worldbuilding in the context of prose fiction: short stories, novels, and the like. That isn’t terribly surprising, given that when I started this Patreon, prose fiction was very nearly […]
New Worlds: Time to Exercise
Given that my job mostly involves sitting at a desk, I have to devote particular effort to getting exercise if I want to be in good health. This is not a modern phenomenon, but it is something of an elite one. If your day involves heavy physical labor in the fields or a factory, if […]
New Worlds: Physical Disability
This is honestly closer to a theory-type essay, as I’ve already talked about more concrete angles like prostheses and assistive devices (in Year Four), and this time around I’m looking more at the dynamics of presenting physical disability in fiction. Activists for better representation of disability often object to worldbuilding that imagines magic or advanced […]
