Reemerging
It’s been far too long since I last posted, for which I apologize. Partly, it’s that 2021 was not a particularly good year personally. I lost family, friends, and cats, and have been dealing with…
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Autumn Update
This has been a busy and often difficult late summer/fall, beginning with an unexpected death in the family that required considerable attention and travel at the height of the latest COVID surge and again during…
Mathey & Lynes Temporarily Unavailable
You may have heard that Lethe Press is slowing down its work, after 20 years of publishing LGBTQ+ fiction, particularly SFF. As a result, Amy Griswold and I have reclaimed the rights to the two…
The Octopus in the Tin Can, or How I Came to Write Finders
My novel Finders (currently part of the Starting Hurricanes Storybundle) began, as so many of my books do, with a late night conversation at a convention. Don Sakers and I had been talking about Clarkean…
Water Horse Dreamcast
One of the pleasures of working with a smaller press is that editors and publishers have a bit more time and freedom to indulge in fannish pasttimes, like imagining the perfect cast should a book…
The Annual Pride Storybundle
The annual Pride Storybundle is in full swing — many thanks for Catherine Lundoff for taking over most of the curation this year, and to Jason Chen for letting us make this an annual event. When…
On the Origins of Water Horse
If you’d asked me a year ago, I would have said that the idea that became Water Horse sprouted at some point during a two-year RPG campaign set in Middle Earth, though now that I…
Don Sakers: Balticon Memorial
This year’s virtual Balticon hosted a memorial for Don Sakers on Sunday, May 30, at 11:30 AM ET via Zoom.
Don Sakers, 1958-2021
Don Sakers died May 17, 2021, of a heart attack suffered at his home in Maryland. He was 62 years old, and in losing him I have lost one of my oldest and dearest friends….
Odyssey Workshop
I’m pleased to report that I’ll be a guest lecturer at the Odyssey Writing Workshop this year, lecturing on world-building. Odyssey, if you don’t know about it, is a 6-week residential workshop held annually at…