SUBSCRIPTION FICTION

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The Beginning (The Three Lands: Empty Dagger Hand #9). "The Commander raised his eyebrows as he sipped from his cup of wine. He said softly, 'Are you arguing with me?'" ¶ The end is near. The stakes are high. His commander ( Read more... )

Reading, watching, and listening

My annual recommendations.

Writing

My stats for the year:

• 141,583 words of new fiction released .
• 97,177 words of new fiction written.

Given how sick I was this year, that's a decent amount. I'm especially proud of the fact that I didn't miss a single deadline for releasing my monthly subscription fiction (though ( Read more... )

Fiction

Guy Gavriel Kay: Children of the Earth and Sky. This series is set in an alternate version of the Renaissance. I especially recommend it to fans of Dorothy Dunnett; Kay is a Dunnett fan, and that really shows in this series. Kay even includes a Flawed Hero & Consummate Swordsman Whom Everyone Loves (Except the Villains).

Online fiction

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Me: "You're planning to eat all those cookies at once? Where is your moderation? Your self-control? Your sôphrosunê?" (*Raises imaginary pom-poms.*) "Anêr! Gunê! Sôphrosunê!"
Joe: (*Stares at me.*)
Me: "It's what we used to chant in college."
Joe: "Congratulations. It's Christmas. I'm eating my cookies."

https://duskpeterson.insanejournal.com/386752. ( Read more... )

It was Christmas night, and the eve of the Boxing Day Meet. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again; when there was no unemployment because there were too few people ( Read more... )

"A tree!" cried Luke, appalled. "What do we need a tree here for?"

He looked again at the scene that had greeted him when he entered the room. A rather scraggly looking pine tree, brutally chopped down and propped upright by some sort of iron cage gripping its trunk, now took up a full quarter of the dorm room. His side of the room, blast it. Pine ( Read more... )

[This conversation takes place between two blood brothers who have been separated from each other by societal circumstances.]
He turned to Votrix. 'And with you? How is it with you?'
' I am - lonely without my brother.'
'One was telling me that there is a girl - the daughter of Gwythno of the Singing Spear. One was telling me that she grows very fair ( Read more... )

SUBSCRIPTION FICTION

• Ream subscribers' entryway to my private library.
• Patreon subscribers' entryway to my private library.

The Beginning (The Three Lands: Empty Dagger Hand #9). "The Commander raised his eyebrows as he sipped from his cup of wine. He said softly, 'Are you arguing with me?'" ¶ The end is near. The stakes are high. His commander ( Read more... )

Close to Koretia's capital, by a short detour, you will find the scars of the Last Battle - so called because it was the final battle that took place in the Three Lands before the current period of extended peace. This battle occurred during the autumn of 991, after Koretia and Daxis fell into dispute with each other over territory. The heart of ( Read more... )

Joe (as I pass behind his rollator with about an inch of clearance - a lot more than I have when he's seated in our only chair at the table): "Do you need more room?"
Me: "Nope! Thanks to you moving the mattress, I have plenty of roo-"
(*Falls straight to the floor. I forgot about the rollator wheels.*)

https://duskpeterson.insanejournal.com/385736. ( Read more... )