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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: Do You Have a Flag?
The comedian Eddie Izzard has a bit in her show Dress to Kill where she characterizes colonialism as sticking a flag in the ground to claim a place, then ignoring the assertion of the locals that their home is their own because, well, they don’t have a flag, do they? While obviously exaggerated for the […]
Help a friend out?
As I said on Bluesky, I utterly hate that the American social safety net in the 21st century seems to consist of “start a GoFundMe” campaign. But that’s where we’re at, so. My friend Emily Dare is very much in need of help. To recap what I say over on the campaign: she has been […]
New Worlds: Heraldry
Heraldry is a peculiar mix of localized and universal. By “localized,” I mean that it’s very specifically a medieval-and-later European phenomenon. The idea of individuals or groups having emblems is vastly older and more widespread, but that isn’t heraldry per se; it lacks the hereditary element that turns idiosyncratic choices into an organized system. In […]
