I’m feeling very behind on things at the moment, so here’s my attempt to get more caught up. 

On the fiction front, I’ll have a science fiction piece, “Growing Up Under Ominous Skies,” included in an upcoming anthology of first contact stories, Phantoms from the Sky from Rogue Owl Press.  We’re launching a Kickstarter campaign later this month, but for now you can sign up to follow this project for updates.  

I’ll also have a fantasy story, “The Sphinx’s Blind Date,” coming out later this month as part of Wyldblood Press’s Wyld Flash series and am excited to share the link when it’s available to read.

On the poetry side, I have a free verse poem in the Winter 2024 issue of Old Moon Quarterly, “What They Don’t Tell You About Training to Slay.”  I like editor Julian Barona’s introduction about the role of death, not only in the sword & sorcery and dark fantasy of the issue but in the act of creating in general, with the influences of those who came before us. 

Also, The Hyacinth Review reprinted my poem “The Bowsprit Mermaid and the Stemhead Dragon,” originally published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. 

And here is the link to the recording of my Speculative Sundays StarBurst poetry reading.  By the way, in answering Akua’s question about sonnets, I was referring to an interview response from poet Shane McCrae in The Writer’s Chronicle. 

Okay, that’s all I’ve got for now.  Onward!