So, now you’ve had a chance to know a bit about the setting and characters of the Moth Plateau novellas. But what’s the actual story about? There isn’t exactly one overarching narrative. In fact, each novella stands on its own, in a way. It is……
At one point during brainstorming and planning, my working tagline for the Moth Plateau series was “Young Riders, but make it Weird.” The story certainly evolved away from that as it went, but that (a TV show from the…late 80s/early 90s? about …
This week (today as I write this, in fact) marks the release of the first novella in the Moth Plateau series, Riding the Moth Plateau, so it’s fitting for me to give you a sense of the place, the plateau itself.Each novella introduces you to the platea…
Coming…very soon, so I’d better start getting the word out. This is a series of weird western-fantasy novellas, starting with Riding the Moth Plateau:The Moth Plateau is a land of cattle drives and cowpokes, of bicycle-riding messengers and recluses …
Most fantasy secondary worlds tend to be inspired by pre-modern society in our own world. In theory, that shouldn’t be a problem. The trouble is that, whatever in-world details you put in, someone will object that it’s wrong — because everyone knows it wasn’t like that in the old days. Well, it’s a useful ruleContinue reading “Five Things “Everyone Knows” About the Pre-Modern World”
Not poems about New Years, just on/near the start of the year.First, there were two poems that technically came out on the last day of the year in the third issue of SpecPoVerse. “Six images in the mist” is a horror (ish) poem of the spooky …