Author: Daniel Ausema
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The People of the Moth Plateau
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 …
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Welcome to the Moth Plateau!
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…
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Moth Plateau, novella series
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 …
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New Years poems published
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 …
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"The Sea Harvest of Moonlight" out in Sally Port
Trying to catch up on various news items from the past few weeks, I’m happy to announce that this story came out in the January issue of Sally Port. “The Sea Harvest of Moonlight” is a story I wrote to experiment with the kishotenketsu narrative struct…
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2025 in Review
These are the poems I had published during 2025.Some quick links to them: “River of Naming” in Orion’s Belt; “Lesser Zodiacs” in Merganser Magazine, and (again) “In the Sloth Tunnels, at a Time of War” in Small Wonders are all freely available online a…
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One last poem published for 2025
I think I’ve had more poems published this year than I got around to posting about. (Subscribe to my newsletter and/or follow me on Bluesky to make sure you don’t miss anything!) I’ll take a look back at the full year and should be putting up a review …
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Two new poems published!
April showers bring May…poems? Or, well, given the lack of rain for most of April around here, maybe it’s April droughts that bring poetry. Anyway, I’ve had two poems come out this month!The first is “Lesser Zodiacs” in Merganser Magazine. Thei…
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Introducing Spiral! [or a non-Amazon way to buy my books direct]
Here is Spiral, the beetle a writer friend crocheted for me recently! I’ve been playing around with different ways to photograph them, so watch for more images floating around social media, my newsletter, and more!For now, Spiral is inviting you to che…
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Fiction (and other) reading in trying times
The world feels fragile these days. In all this chaos, corruption, and lack of empathy, the arts are as important as ever. So what do you need? I don’t know–maybe it’s to just breathe and find some way to steady yourself. Maybe it’s to take in some (n…