This week (today as I write this, in fact) marks the release of the first novella in the Moth Plateau series, Riding the Moth Plateau, so it’s fitting for me to give you a sense of the place, the plateau itself.Each novella introduces you to the platea…
Coming…very soon, so I’d better start getting the word out. This is a series of weird western-fantasy novellas, starting with Riding the Moth Plateau:The Moth Plateau is a land of cattle drives and cowpokes, of bicycle-riding messengers and recluses …
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 reading “Five Things “Everyone Knows” About the Pre-Modern World”
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 …
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…
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 reading “Writing Goals for 2026 — Same as 2025, Really”