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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…
February turned out to be a crazy month, with most of the craziness coming in the span of a week. I’m still rather dizzied from it, so this will simply be a rundown of what’s happened:Spire City: Occupied was released as an ebook. It will rem…
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 to have a h…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…