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Five Things “Everyone Knows” About the Pre-Modern World
Most fantasy secondary worlds tend to be inspired by pre-modern society in our own world. In theory, that shouldn’t be a problem. The trouble is that, whatever in-world details you put in, someone will object that it’s wrong — because everyone knows it wasn’t like that in the old days. Well, it’s a useful ruleContinue…
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New Years poems published
Not poems about New Years, just on/near the start of the year.First, there were two poems that technically came out on the last day of the year in the third issue of SpecPoVerse. “Six images in the mist” is a horror (ish) poem of the spooky …
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"The Sea Harvest of Moonlight" out in Sally Port
Trying to catch up on various news items from the past few weeks, I’m happy to announce that this story came out in the January issue of Sally Port. “The Sea Harvest of Moonlight” is a story I wrote to experiment with the kishotenketsu narrative struct…
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Writing Goals for 2026 — Same as 2025, Really
About this time a year ago, I was setting my goals for 2025, and I was pretty sure what I was going to achieve in the following twelve months. After finally finishing the first draft of The Empire of Nandesh, the second novel of my octology, in the dying days of 2022, I’d spent muchContinue…
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2025 in Review
These are the poems I had published during 2025.Some quick links to them: “River of Naming” in Orion’s Belt; “Lesser Zodiacs” in Merganser Magazine, and (again) “In the Sloth Tunnels, at a Time of War” in Small Wonders are all freely available online a…
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One last poem published for 2025
I think I’ve had more poems published this year than I got around to posting about. (Subscribe to my newsletter and/or follow me on Bluesky to make sure you don’t miss anything!) I’ll take a look back at the full year and should be putting up a review …
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