Now back to the characters of Spire City: Occupied.Keene is…he’s fun. A rugged, ragged-around-the-edges hunter who lives in a harsh landscape, the home of the great beetles that are eventually tamed and hitched to the carriages and taxis of the…
A brief interruption of the character intros to mention that I’ve sold the flash fiction story “The Cities Rise Up on Legs of Lead” to Daily Science Fiction. It’s a fabulist-tinted story of cities coming to life and the city-folk placing their ho…
Our second character from Spire City: Occupied has no name. The correspondent is from Spire City, conscripted into the Mernan army, and reveals little else about their history or identity. What they do make clear is what’s really happening i…
I’m putting together a few posts here to introduce the main characters of Spire City: Occupied. Starting with the airship captain Temli.Temli is a middle-aged woman who loves to fly more than anything. She owns her own small airship that she (along wit…
I’ve been getting ready to start promoting my serialized novel Spire City: Occupied on both Vella and Curious Fictions, after a soft launch earlier this month.With yesterday’s news about Curious Fictions closing at the end of August, I’m still releasin…
I’ve just returned from a two-week family road trip (and feeling rather tired from it), but a couple of cool things happened publishing-wise while I was away. I’ll start with this news, that Star*Line 44.3 was published. It includes my poem “The P…
Wow, I didn’t know if I’d ever be writing those words. But there it is, at last a chance to revisit Spire City, once again in a serial format.But this time somewhat differently…Spire City, the city of beetle-drawn carriages and chained singers,…
The latest issue of New Myths came out this past weekend, including my flash story “Triptych of the Final String.” It’s a fable, of sorts–about music and stories and especially learning new stories from each other. Or you could consider it a fairy/fol…
If you get my newsletter, you may have seen the news that I’ve sold another short story to Daily Science Fiction. This will be my sixth story in DSF, and it’s a story I’m excited to have out there, a fantasy story with a touch of Lord Dunsany (in my mi…
This past week or so I’ve sold two more poems, and I’m ecstatic about it! First, I “The Forbidden Path to Forgetting” to Fantasy Magazine. Fantasy! Magazine! I’ve been sending them since (I just checked) December 2005, and I love the feel of the …