Month: August 2020
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“The Huntress and the Conveyor Worlds” is out now in Mythaxis
“The Huntress and the Conveyor Worlds” is a story I wrote quite a while ago. It never found its right market, but I kept taking it back out of the trunk to revise, tinker with it, revisit its improbable world of lived-in technology that no one understa…
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Reviews Tell the Tale
So … I entered Rumble in Woohollow into this year’s SPFBO (Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off). If you’re not familiar with that, the SPFBO takes in 300 books and divvies them between ten book blogs and review sites. Each blog picks a finalist and the ten finalists go head-to-head and a winner is crowned and earns ……
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De-grading the AP Lit classroom
One of the first things I tell new students that come into my classroom each year is that I don’t care about grades. For years, I’ve worked to de-emphasize grades and so hopefully to promote learning. It works for some students, while others never quite get beyond that need for validation from a number/letter that…
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The Mauler, out 28 Aug!
I’m a bit late updating this here (as I’ve done it on social media) but The Mauler, the second book of The Holly Sisters, will be available on 28 Aug (preorder for Kindle link here, paperback link coming). It’s the second book to have a cover done by Jessica Dueck of StarsColdNight. She does excellent…
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“Assailing the Garden of Pleasure” in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
My story “Assailing the Garden of Pleasure” came out this weekend in the latest issue of HFQ.This story has taken a rather circuitous path to publication. Some years ago, I participated in a challenge to write a story based on this image from the artis…