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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
New Worlds: Celibacy
Having mentioned celibacy in the previous essay, I now want to return to it and unpack in full. Celibacy is a more complicated term than it seems on the surface, because we don’t consistently distinguish it from abstinence: witness the rise of the term “incel,” or “involuntary celibate,” which might be more appropriately framed as […]
New Worlds: The Ascetic Life
Fasting is one form of asceticism: the renunciation, whether short- or long-term, of material pleasures. But hoo boy is it the thin end of that wedge! People can adopt an ascetic lifestyle for purely philosophical reasons; Stoicism in the classical era headed in this direction, though I think most of its adherents were more concerned […]
More Writer’s Little Books!
What’s this? Two blog posts from me in a single day? Unpossible! But in what I will claim is a display of genius timing (I’m lying; it is pure coincidence), not only do I have a new Writer’s Little Book out today — The Writer’s Little Book of Readings, chock-full of advice for reading fiction, […]
