I mentioned in my November Lyrical Worlds newsletter that I would share pictures of the original publication of the reprinted story in it, “The Game.”Fictitious Force had a unique shape. I suppose it was simply folded the other direction (hotdog bun st…
I announced a story sale to this anthology some months ago, and at the time it was expected to come out fairly soon, but there were some delays in getting to publication.Now it’s finally getting close to publication, and we recently were sent the cover…
Here’s what could be in your inbox soon…This newsletter includes a short story that has never appeared online before, a story that appeared (I’m just rediscovering now) alongside some now well known, award-winning short story writers. So if you haven…
And there it is, hinted at a few weeks ago and now live: the Lyrical Worlds newsletter.Lyrical Worlds will be the key way to get the latest news about my stories, poems, novels, etc. I’ll still share links here on the blog, but the monthly newsletter w…
Well, look at that. This is a brand new website. One that…looks exactly like the old one, for now anyway. Updating it to http://danielausema.com is just one of the behind-the-scenes things I’ve been working on.In other news, The Roots of Betrayal&nbs…
Looking through the ads I’d created for the Spire City stories, I came across this image that I’d forgotten about. I probably created it between writing Season 1 and Season 2, long before the series was picked up by Musa.It’s the same newspaper masthea…
My story “To Climb by the Light of the Sputtering Sun” will be appearing in SFFWorld’s Dying Earth anthology. Dying Earth may make you think of Jack Vance’s far future stories. The anthology isn’t meant as a pastiche of or tribute to his work, but that…
The people of Spire City need to be able to travel sometimes, like anywhere else.***By the way, I’ve been blog silent for a while as I’ve been doing a variety of things in the background. The truth is that blogging feels like a carryover from an earlie…
So you’ve been curious about this chapbook but wanting the ebook version instead? Well, National Poetry Month is an excellent time to give it a try. It combines poems, some previously published and some new, with poetic flash-story prose into something…
My story “Amid Sun and Stone, an Alias,” is in the latest issue of Mirror Dance. I’ve longed enjoyed the stories written by the editor of Mirror Dance, Megan Arkenberg, and kept thinking I should submit a story…and never got around to it before sendi…