Month: September 2014

Armand’s opening, The Stars Askew

Here’s another little unedited snippet, to whet your appetite: Later, when he looked back on it, Armand couldn’t be sure exactly when he knew someone was following him. The knowledge had rattled around in his unconscious mind well before he arrived at the roadhouse at the edge of the small town of Scaptia, a week […]

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Opening of The Stars Askew

The opening of The Stars Askew is currently a bit like this: A revolution, it is said, is a festival of the oppressed. In those early days, Caeli-Amur seemed at times to be one long public meeting. Between the whitewashed walls, the squares and plazas filled with citizens. In the criss-crossing alleyways, hardy washer-women and […]

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Portland Book Review on Unwrapped Sky

There’s a new, nice and fair review of Unwrapped Sky over at Portland Book Review. Reviewer Whitney Smyth writes: The story itself is complicated, and deeply rooted in the politics, history, and mythology of the world. Many of the ideas introduced in the book were not resolved at the end, and judging from the book’s […]

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On Writer’s Block

I’ve written an article for Overland journal about writer’s block. It’s fairly comprehensive, I think, and I hope it helps some writers out there at least a little bit. Here’s how it starts: There was a time in my early twenties when I found it excruciating to sit in front of the computer. As a […]

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