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…
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…
I’ve just returned from a two-week family road trip (and feeling rather tired from it), but a couple of cool things happened publishing-wise while I was away. I’ll start with this news, that Star*Line 44.3 was published. It includes my poem “The P…
I wrote the following piece for my school’s literary magazine. It’s a student-initiated, student-run endeavor that I loosely oversee. We take submissions from HS students and staff at the school and the student editors put it all together. This year, our theme revolved around expectations. Expectations are a form of time travel. Almost inherently, to […]
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,…