Time for some exciting news everyone; I'm posting another World of Green and Black novella. And no, this isn't an April Fools joke. This story is set roughly 200 years before the previous novella, Neighbour, and follows the titular young Drid's mentor, the Strongest Strategist of the Forest, as she makes first contact with Humans. …
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New Story: A Short Guide to Lost Literary Works. Also I have Bluesky now.
So got some big news about a little story. And some little news about a big social media network. I'll start with the former, since that is a lot more exciting. I have managed to get a new story published in someone else's publication. 'A Short Guide to Lost Literary Works' is a flash fiction …
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2023 Wrap Up
Hello everyone. With 2023 coming to an end, now seems like a good time to wrap up my year in reading and writing. This is a bit of a hard thing to do, because I feel that the last three years have been one massive blur. It was surprise to me to starting writing about …
More Reedsy Stories Come Home
As long time readers of this site may know, I do occasionally participate in the Reedsy Weekly Writing Contests. I find it a fun little exercise that encourages me to actually write, which is one of the harder parts of being a writer. There also is a good community there, and I've come across a …
The Complete Neighbor
Hello everyone. It's been a very busy month over here, with my short story The World in a Ramen Cup coming out in Analog and my novella Neighbor going live on this website. To everyone who has discovered this site through Analog, welcome. Sit back, grab a book bingo card, read through my early attempts …
The World in a Ramen Cup
Hello everybody, I'm back with some big news that's been some time in the making. After many years of writing stories, I have finally met Stephen King's criteria for being a talented writer: “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if …
Neighbor and News
Hello friends. It's been a while since I've updated this blog, and I'm pleased to be back with some big news. And some little news. And also hints of more news to come. So, little news first. I'm on Mastodon now, and hope to make that my main social. I'm still finding my way around …
Hello 2023 – Updates and New Bingo Card
Hello everyone, welcome to 2023. I haven't been very active on my blog lately, but there is still a lot happening behind the scenes that I think you might find interesting. First let's talk about 2022. I published two stories this year for the weekly Reedsy Writing Prompts contest, Paula's Refuge in October and A …
Exciting Changes to this Website
Long time followers of this blog may have noticed that I didn't write anything about the Hugos this year. And that I haven't posted anything for a couple of months. This year, I've been feeling as if I've turned a hobby I love into a tedious job. Don't get me wrong, the reading challenges are …
Should I do NaNoWrMo This Year?
No. I should not. I will probably die if I push myself to write that much. Besides, I finally got back to my long neglected story about telepathic tree fungi and am ready to write about the fight with the dragon. I don't want to shelve that for a month to do NaNoWrMo. On the …
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