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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
A Sea Beyond prequel novelette!
June is going to be a busy month for me and publications — as in, I think I’m going to have SIX THINGS COMING OUT. (Followed by two more in July.) Two are out today, though one, the flash story “I Cut Off a Monster’s Arm. AITA?” in Lightspeed, is currently only available to subscribers; […]
New Worlds Theory Post: The Past Is a Foreign Country
Even if you work very, very hard with your worldbuilding, you may not be able to get readers to interpret it the way you want them to. I’ve titled this essay “the past is a foreign country” because that’s a recognizable phrase (though few people know it’s from a book by the English novelist L. […]
New Worlds: The Annals of History
“History is written by the victors” is a familiar adage, and it holds a lot of truth in it. But as an analysis of who specifically is writing the history, and what they’re out to do, it falls a bit short. First of all, we should acknowledge that history — like many intellectual fields, and […]
