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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: 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, […]
New Worlds Theory Post: Building Around a Central Motif
This is a new technique for me, meaning that I only started consciously using it with the Rook and Rose novels — and, credit where credit is due, I think the idea originated with my co-writer Alyc Helms. It is simultaneously a quick ‘n dirty trick for helping you generate various facets of your worldbuilding […]
