Cozy-adjacent fantasy author
I finished the (8th) draft for Talio Rossa and the Elixir of Life, the sequel to Talio’s Codex. My first sequel! And boy did I learn a lot. One of the most interesting things was that the book(s) before the sequel you’re writing start freezing certain details in amber. Mentioned how big a trial jury…
(Content warning: There’s sex in them thar spoiler blocks below) Does sex belong in cozy fantasy? Yes. Next post. Seriously, though. We’re still at the start of the cozy fantasy boom (please, let there be a boom) and the definitions of what is and isn’t cozy fantasy are shaking out. You can take the pulse…
From the pilot episode of the Lavender Tavern podcast. Go give a listen! In a city that stood on a hill by the sea, every child born was given a pair of dice. When the doctors had delivered the baby, red and crying, and cleaned it and cut the cord connecting it to its mother,…
This one’s from 1998. I am grateful to my old friend Josef C. for finding it. In a way, this story makes me very sad for the person I was when I wrote it. I’m also glad my writing’s improved substantially since then. “No”, said Jentner, “I won’t do it.” His mother laughed…
An incomplete story from 1998. Based on a dream I had. I woke up, wrote it down…and then was interrupted by a person from Porlock. Once upon a time, there was a glittering city of jewels that shone and banners that waved gloriously in the breeze, a city of happy, content people who knew…
This pastiche of Sex And the City is from decades ago…thus the iBook. Still as true today as it ever was. Contains mature content! Okay, so the four of us were sitting at our favorite café, and at least one of us was itching. Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself here. You have to know…