Category: serial fiction

2022 publications — Award Eligibility Post

These past months have been chaos. No apologies or explanations, but there have been a number of things published since my last post. They will be included in this award eligibility post:In 2022 I had 8 short stories published, 3 poems, and 2 novels (t......

2022 publications — Award Eligibility Post

These past months have been chaos. No apologies or explanations, but there have been a number of things published since my last post. They will be included in this award eligibility post:In 2022 I had 8 short stories published, 3 poems, and 2 novels (t......

Spire City: Occupied ebook up for pre-order

 Spire City: Occupied is going to remain on Kindle Vella, at least for now, but it is also going to be released as an ebook in a few weeks (on my birthday, as a matter of fact!). So if that's how you prefer to read your books, I'd love...

Spire City: Occupied ebook up for pre-order

 Spire City: Occupied is going to remain on Kindle Vella, at least for now, but it is also going to be released as an ebook in a few weeks (on my birthday, as a matter of fact!). So if that's how you prefer to read your books, I'd love...

Try some Kindle Vella serials!

Spire City: Occupied has now completed its run on Kindle Vella!It's still there for people to read--and I'm intending for it to stay available to Vella readers. But now you can read the whole novel without having to wait for new episodes to appear. I t......

AI character art!

As Spire City: Occupied continues to be serialized on Vella, I've been playing around with the AI-generated characters from Artflow. Part of what makes it fun is that I never know how it will respond to the prompts I give, though that sometimes makes i......

Spire City: Occupied Character: Alless

Mad science has always been a key part of the Spire City stories. Whether it's the strange textile techniques among the Neshini people far to the north in The Patterns of Cloth and Dreams or the cruel serum invented by Orgood in the original series, th......

Spire City: Occupied Characters: the spire singer Jensha

 The first two things I knew about Spire City when I began creating the setting was that it had beetle-drawn carriages and that it kept singers chained to the peaks of its spires. I was asked this summer where those things came from, and I couldn'......

Spire City: Occupied Characters: Keene

 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......

Spire City: Occupied Characters: Unnamed Correspondent

 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......