The Raleigh Court Branch Library is holding the Roanoke launch party for my first novel, The Black Fire Concerto, the story of a pair of sorceress-musicians who fight necromancers and ghouls in a post-apocalyptic future. My friend Anne Sampson will provide some beautifully eerie music for the occasion. The event, which is free, starts Tuesday, Oct ( Read more... )

I’m pleased to report that Strange Horizons is buying my new poem “The Paper Boy,” a grim meditation on a crime’s aftermath. Thanks go to Romie Stott for accepting it and to Dominik Parisien for motivating me to write it. #SFWApro

I’m also pleased to report another nice review for The Black Fire Concerto, this time from blogger Grace Troxal at ( Read more... )

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Two things newly available on Amazon.com today. Click pix for more details. #SFWApro

A thing I wrote:


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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 its mystery sorceress on the cover, and my heroines, Erzelle and Olyssa. #SFWApro


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