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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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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…
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Spire City: Occupied characters: Temli
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…
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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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Spire City: Occupied–a serial return to Spire City!
Wow, I didn’t know if I’d ever be writing those words. But there it is, at last a chance to revisit Spire City, once again in a serial format.But this time somewhat differently…Spire City, the city of beetle-drawn carriages and chained singers,…
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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…