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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: 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 […]
two more Writer’s Little Books!
As I promised when The Writer’s Little Book of Platitudes got republished, I am continuing on with the series! And as you can guess from the fact that the first two are focused on writing advice and the sociolinguistics of naming, the series will continue eclectic. Next up — and fairly timely, given the release […]
Fast Fiction and Avoiding AI
Recently Bona Books posted a discussion of how they unwittingly bought an AI-generated story for an anthology — more than one, actually, but one of them from the (now infamous) scammer Bella Chacha. There is understandably a lot of distress right now in publishing over how to catch these things and how to deal with […]
