This issue:
* Tell me your favorite non-Eurocentric stories.
* Report from the Willamette Writers Conference
* Short story acceptance for anthology of spiritual literature

Full newsletter with links and stuff is here.

What Are Your Favorite Non-Eurocentric Stories?
Question of the month: What are your favorite non-Eurocentric stories? This mean stories ( Read more... )

For my July author newsletter, I've given up trying to be cool and am embracing the voices in my head, which means-what else?-I'm going to write about Blake's 7 and why it's finally time for a reboot! [Newsletter essay posted here.] For the uninitiated, Blake's 7 is a 1970s BBC space opera about a band of freedom fighters striving to overthrow the ( Read more... )

Highlights from my Author Newsletter

On Seeking Cultural ConsultingOne of the puzzlements for a white writer in this age is how to walk the line between writing works that are too Eurocentric and appropriating the culture of a group you don’t belong to. I’ve pondered this for years while my writing hovered semi-safely in the Continuation Universe ( Read more... )

Writing to Sustain HopeHappy New Year! After a jam-packed fall term, it’s been a relief to have a slower winter break and a little time to reflect. While I’m still enthusiastic about Workable Utopias, which launched this newsletter, I’ve moving toward a focus on the rhetoric of "hope." The word “utopia” carries complicated and negative connotations ( Read more... )

Emerging from burial under an exhausting, invigorating, warp-speed teaching term, I have so much news to catch up on! Prepare for snippets that deserve more space. This issue...

* Spoon Knife 4: A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime
* Jolabokaflod PDX Book Festival This December
* Book-Pod Podcast
* Anarres Project: Just Futures ( Read more... )

The Big News: I'm switching from a quarterly newsletter to a monthly author newsletter. It will still cover lots of utopia stuff. Read the full newsletter HERE.

Also in this issue:
* Free ebook giveaway in September for Arthur Smid's techno-utopian sci-fi novel, You Will Win the Future.

* Indie book sale, featuring my sci-fi novels Perdita and ( Read more... )