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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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Writing Goals for 2026 — Same as 2025, Really
About this time a year ago, I was setting my goals for 2025, and I was pretty sure what I was going to achieve in the following twelve months. After finally finishing the first draft of The Empire of Nandesh, the second novel of my octology, in the dying days of 2022, I’d spent…
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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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The Shape of a Legend & Wyrmbane in Quest — 22 Stories of the Hero’s Journey
It’s exciting to have any story published, but I’m especially looking forward to the release, on 21st September, of Quest — 22 Stories of the Hero’s Journey. An anthology published by Fantasy-Writers.org, which I’ve been a member of since 2004, it features two of my stories among the twenty-two. A communal effort by the…
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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…
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2023 wrap-up (Award Eligibility post)
It’s that time of year to look back at what I had published this past year (and supposedly to advocate for them to appear on year-end recommendation lists and award short lists and the like, but I’m never very good at that part of it). I had 3 short st…
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Reprint in Cosmic Muse anthology!
My story “The Triptych of the Final String” was published last year in New Myths. It’s a flash story about stories and what we can learn from each other’s stories.For those who’ve read (and decide now to read…) The Arcist Chronicles books, the …
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Reprint in Cosmic Muse anthology!
My story “The Triptych of the Final String” was published last year in New Myths. It’s a flash story about stories and what we can learn from each other’s stories.For those who’ve read (and decide now to read…) The Arcist Chronicles books, the …
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Stephen Oliver, Purveyor of the Paranormal
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