Sword & Sorceress XXVII

I am remiss in announcing this, but Sword & Sorceress 27 is available now! This fantasy anthology includes my story “Netcasters”, in which a thief attempts to steal a few small valuables from a village of seemingly simple fisherfolk, and gets a lot more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon their magical secret. Here’s its Goodreads page (no reviews yet). If you read it, let me know what you think!

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Cool things

A few links to cool things discovered lately:

18 Homes that Belong in a Fairy Tale – I can’t believe some of these are real houses that people actually (one assumes) live in.

25 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually Real – some of these would make awesome sci-fi or fantasy settings!

Today’s xkcd is a diagram of the Saturn V rocket labeled using only the thousand most common words in the English language. As well as being amused by the descriptions (especially the part at the bottom), I don’t think I’d realized on a visceral level just how big that thing was.

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Apparently this works for me

It’s getting to the point that I’ve written (and finished) enough different things that I’m starting to have an idea of how my creative process seems to work. This is not how I thought my creative process worked. I’m not necessarily sure this is how I want it to work. Nevertheless, this seems to be the way it’s evolved. Basically, everything (original, i.e. non-fanfic) that I’ve finished in the last couple of years, except for the really short stuff, has gone like this:

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