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A peek at The Fall of the City of Bells
As announced last week, The Fall of the City of Bells is out now. I wanted to tell a bit more behind the scenes stuff and give a glimpse of the poetry of the story.About eleven years ago, I jotted down on a notecard the idea of a magic of bells. It was…
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The Fall of the City of Bells is out now!
My novella in verse The Fall of the City of Bells is starting to show up in various online bookstores. I’m thrilled to have this available to read, and I adore the cover art made for it by Island of Wak-Wak.(Note, Island of Wak-Wak is also the pu…
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Melle and the quest for justice
I got caught up in travels and family stuff, so this is nearly a month late–but that’s not too late to check the story out!So, while I was traveling to Michigan, the fifth and final novella of the Moth Plateau series came out!This is the story of…
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Milliva, the doubting priestess
Days of Sagebrush and Absence is out now! (Get if from Amazon or from any of these other stores)It is the story of environmental collapse, of doubt and comfort, and of a well-earned mistrust of those who wish to exploit the land.My notes for this one b…
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A daredevil and an uncanny city: Time with its Tricks
Falling a bit behind here, with the usual spring busyness, but be sure to check out Time with its Tricks (Amazon | universal links), the third Moth Plateau novella!I’ll have more to say about Sakehin, the daredevil at the center of this story, bu…
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"Sailing through Flooded Cathedrals" is an editor’s featured poem!
Star*Line 49.2 just came out last week, and my poem, “Sailing through Flooded Cathedrals,” is one of the online-featured poems.This is a poem about finding meaning after some sort of incomprehensible disaster: “the vague hope for that unknown, / w…
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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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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…