Generally speaking, I don’t do bizarre worlds. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate worlds that are carried through space by a turtle, or whose inhabitants are giant insects. Occasionally, I even create a bizarre setting for an individual short story. My main secondary world, though, is very much in...

I got caught up in travels and family stuff, so this is nearly a month late--but that's not too late to check the story out!So, while I was traveling to Michigan, the fifth and final novella of the Moth Plateau series came out!This is the story of......

I have an octalogy of novels to write, only one of which is actually finished. I have a list of “stories with beginnings” that stretches to five pages. It’s obvious I’m not going to take on another major project. Except that, of course, I did. That Was a Start...

Days of Sagebrush and Absence is out now! (Get if from Amazon or from any of these other stores)It is the story of environmental collapse, of doubt and comfort, and of a well-earned mistrust of those who wish to exploit the land.My notes for this one b......

 In this ongoing series of behind-the-scenes posts about the Moth Plateau novellas, we have Sake. He was a very fun character to write, one I deliberately made different from the types of characters I usually write about. In real life, he'd wear o......

 Falling a bit behind here, with the usual spring busyness, but be sure to check out Time with its Tricks (Amazon | universal links), the third Moth Plateau novella!I'll have more to say about Sakehin, the daredevil at the center of this story, bu......

Star*Line 49.2 just came out last week, and my poem, "Sailing through Flooded Cathedrals," is one of the online-featured poems.This is a poem about finding meaning after some sort of incomprehensible disaster: "the vague hope for that unknown, / w......

 Continuing in this series of behind-the-scenes looks at the Moth Plateau, today we're checking out the main character of novella 2, Pursuit and Moth Songs. And hey, we'll toss in a bit about the other characters who show up here for the first tim......

 Each of the Moth Plateau novellas has a different point of view character. That does mean that to a certain extent you can jump in at any point in the series (though whatever order you choose for 1-3, I'd recommend reading those before 4).I'll ad......

The characters you create have to live somewhere. Well, unless they’re chronically nomadic, that is, which includes many of my main characters, but even they are probably going to visit communal dwelling-places at some point. So what do you call these places? If you’re writing about a real place...