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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
Books read, September 2026
The Unicorn Hunters, Katherine Arden. I previously very much enjoyed Arden’s Winternight Trilogy, so I was eager to pick this one up. Replace frozen Russia and its folklore with rainy Brittany and same, and they’re very much alike! Arden has a lovely writing style and a very good ability to find the numinous; here that […]
New Worlds: Furnishing a Room
I’ve mentioned before that until you have industrialization or some equivalent that makes the manufacture of things easier, people will own a lot less stuff, furniture included. But what does that look like in practice? What is a person’s house likely to include and exclude? Probably the first thing to be invented was the chest […]
cui dono lepidum novum libellum . . .
A poem + a Little Book = I quote Catullus, apparently. I have a new poem out today! It’s the result of reading articles on astronomy and historical demonology in quick succession — y’know, like you do. You can read “expand/contract” for free online at Just Keep Up. And on a semi-related topic (but only […]
