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…
writing
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…
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…
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…