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Don’t worry — when it returns it will be better than ever. #SFWApro

Cross-posted from Mythic Delirium Kickstarter update #11: Unsurprisingly, it took no time at all to find someone interested in seeing me get blowed up real good. Enjoy, folks! #SFWApro

Cross-posted from Mythic Delirium Kickstarter update #9: Hi, folks! Anita and I are back from ReaderCon in Boston and have recovered enough from a productive and exhausting trip to pick the Kickstarter ball back up again. I’m grateful to all of you folks who’ve backed

I’m pleased to announce that the following poems have been accepted for Mythic Delirium 29, the penultimate print issue of our zine, due out around October. (And of course, I’m revamping Mythic Delirium as an electronic publication, the very first issue of which is available

Anita’s been making dolls of the characters from my first novel, THE BLACK FIRE CONCERTO. These dolls are still in progress, but I can sure tell who they are. From left to right: a Grey One from the temple above Violet Bluff, my novel with

So it’s not quite two weeks yet, and the Kickstarter for the new version of Mythic Delirium has only $500 more to raise to reach fully funded. And we haven’t even posted any images of the new jewelry pins Anita is making! (With any luck,

The anthology Kickstarter built is available for everyone to buy. Kindle Price $4.99 Canada $5.07 UK £3.28 Watch Weightless Books for e-book editions in alternate formats. Trade Paperback $15.95 (Discounted at some stores) Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.com.uk Barnes & Noble Powell’s Indiebound Don’t see it on

UPDATE: The first issue, Mythic Delirium 0.1, is ready. You can get it by backing the Kickstarter for Mythic Delirium or by ordering a subscription through the Mythic Delirium website.     As the Bard put it so eloquently, “Once more into the breach.” I’m

I’m thrilled to at last be able to publicly reveal the amazing cover for my first novel, The Black Fire Concerto, which makes use of a spectacular digital painting by Lauren K. Cannon. Plans were made to be foiled, but at present the plan is

To help promote the new anthology Solaris Rising 2 (which contains my short story “Still Life with Skull”) I wrote a guest post for the Solaris blog in response to a request by editor Ian Whates to discuss my favorite sf short story. “When Ian