Category: fantasy
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Spire City: Occupied, slight change of plans…
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…
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"Triptych of the Final String" in the latest issue of New Myths
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…
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"The Mirror Merchant’s Tales" sold to Daily Science Fiction!
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…
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Two more poems sold!
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 …
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Birthday gift–a free novelette!
It’s my birthday today. To celebrate, I’m giving you a gift, a free copy of my novelette “The Spire Singers.” This week (through Friday, February 12) the story is free to purchase on Amazon.It’s a strange story, in the best of ways, a touch of Ka…
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"Triptych of the Final String" sold to New Myths
Excited to announce the sale of this flash fiction to New Myths. There’s even a loose connection to The Silk Betrayal with this story. I’ll say more about that when the story comes out, likely in June.It will be my third time having something in …
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"The Bridge Fugue: Variations on Emptiness" published in Daily Science Fiction
Photo by Valentin Balan on UnsplashMy story “The Bridge Fugue: Variations on Emptiness” is out in today’s DSF.I wrote this last January (before anyone around here started talking about lockdowns….). Some of the comments I got from othe…
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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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“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…
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The Market of Magical Goods – Serial
Photo by Annie Spratt via UnsplashThe shopkeeper offers you a tincture. One drop in your eye will let you recognize the stories that matter. Will you take it? Do you trust the keeper of this stall of strange wonders?What is the market of magical goods?…