Chenedolle is quite blatantly a matriarchal society. (One of the reasons everyone thinks of their neighbor, Chadron, as a barbarous place is that they are ruled by kings, and their society is patriarchal. They use magic in weird ways, probably also because they’re ruled by men…) This was a deliberate choice: Lisa and I wanted…

I’m delighted to announce that Queen of Swords Press is bringing out all six of the Astreiant stories in a single ebook — Point of Hopes, Point of Knives, Point of Dreams, Fairs’ Point, Point of Sighs, and Point of Hearts are now available as an omnibus edition, and it’s up for preorder direct from…

It’s that time of year again, and this year more than ever it seems important to boost queer-themed SF/F that tells more than the tired old story of the tragic queer. Once again, Catherine Lundoff (author and publisher at Queen of Swords Press) and I have worked to curate a Storybundle that showcases a wide…

Point of Sighs was the last book that Lisa and I were able to talk about before her illness meant putting aside creative work. We knew we wanted to look at Astreiant’s tea trade, and at the ways that archaic, outdated beliefs persist and frequently turn out to have some basis in fact, however distorted….

Lisa and I started plotting Fairs’ Point before she got sick, and part of the fun for Lisa was the chance to indulge in some inside jokes about one of her great interests, thoroughbred racing. She wasn’t much of a gambler (we couldn’t afford it, for one thing), but she was passionately interested in the…