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Every year, when research paper season rolls around, I always have a few students that want to cite themselves, use their own ‘knowledge’, or consider themselves experts in their chosen topic. It takes a bit of convincing before they’re willing to acknowledge that maybe they’re not experts in their field at the age of 16 […]
I’m doing an online reading this evening! Tonight at 7:30 pm Pacific time, there will be a live viewing of Fae News on YouTube. (I’m not in Pacific time, but they are, so that’s the time I’m giving–do the math to figure it out, just like I have to… …
Photo by Ganapathy Kumar on UnsplashContinuing with catching up, my poem “Unveiling the Moon” is in the 44th issue of Eye to the Telescope. Like all the poems in this issue, it is a poem about an imaginary work of art, in this case about an artist who …
Photo by Akshar Dave🌻 on UnsplashIn my last post I mentioned this story, which sold to New Myths. And it was published soon after that, so in the interest of catching up on some of the things have been slipping through my fingers in the chaos of recent…
I’ve just updated my bio to include a humorous version:
Stephen was utterly sane until he was born to totally normal parents. Having been precipitated into this insane world without his permission, he decided that the only logical response was to b…
I had to have a little chat with my eleventh graders last week. I decided to take the first 10 minutes of class and explain to them two core convictions of my teaching philosophy and how there is often a tension between them. We had gotten to one of my favorite units, in which we […]
A darkness has descended over Europe. Prayers and thoughts are with Ukraine. In my writing news, I have just finished the first draft of book 3 in the Rankers series (sequels to Deliverance at Van Demon’s Deep), that’s now off to my amazing beta reader…
I want to know things, understand them, poke and question them until they make sense. I rarely accept something as-is and instead have to critically examine it from multiple angles and determine what it is and how it functions. My mind puts together a complex web of interconnected ideas and there is so much satisfaction […]
Paranormal City
For those who haven’t heard yet, Paranormal City is now available as a paperback:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951768426/
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1951768426/
Be sure to use the correct link because the publi…
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…