News and Site Updates
It’s a two-sale day! “Eternally Bound” has been purchased by Lightspeed Magazine (which is currently running a Kickstarter), and “Sorcerer, Councilman, Priest has sold to Strange Pilgrims!
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.
From the Journal
print edition (at last) for New Worlds, Year Nine!
It took me longer than usual to get this set up, and then longer still to remember that, oh, yeah, I never actually posted about it — but New Worlds, Year Nine is now out in paperback as well as ebook! So if you prefer those collections in dead tree form, the series is now […]
New Worlds: Unconventional Warfare
“Terrorism” is an extremely loaded word. But is it true, as the saying goes, that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter? Yes and no. Strictly speaking, terrorism is a tactical approach: one that, as the name indicates, takes as its goal the creation of terror in the target populace, specifically by targeting civilians […]
Books read, October 2026
The Merciful Crow, Margaret Owen, narr. Amy Landon. Having very much enjoyed Owen’s Little Thieves trilogy, I’m backtracking to an earlier duology. This one is set in a less historically-inspired secondary world, one that’s very much systematized: there are ten or twelve castes (I’m now forgetting which is the correct number) all named after birds, […]