Tag: Fiction
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What I Don’t Do
Many professional authors will tell you what they do. This isn’t my default. Via Negativa shaped my way of life more deeply than Via Positiva. Instead, I’m going to talk about what I don’t do. I don’t do genre conventions. The book market has its genres, and every genre has its tropes. Readers and writers…
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The 2026 EPIC Indie Summer Sale Is Live!
150 indie SFF books. Many are $0.99. The rest are free. Welcome to the 2026 EPIC Indie Summer sale! Participating this year is a crop of promising SFF talent, as well as veterans of the indie SFF scene, including John C Wright, Declan Finn, and Carlos Carrasco. Needless to say, I am also part of…
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NO GODS, ONLY DAIMONS Returns!
Nine years ago, NO GODS, ONLY DAIMONS was published. It would go on to be nominated for the 2017 Dragon Awards. Some time later, it was taken off the market, and the rights reverted to me. After a long hiatus, NO GODS, ONLY DAIMONS is back, leaner and meaner than before! Here’s the blurb: In…
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BOUND BY BLOOD is live!
Michael Chang walks a hard path: the path of the shaman. For those seeking guidance, he reads their fortunes and offers counsel. For those suffering from unexplained diseases, he provides healing. And for those tormented by spirits, he exorcises them. Called upon to cleanse a cursed flat, Michael discovers a sordid history of black magic…
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Where Babylon Ends
Every story has an ending. It’s probably an unpopular notion among certain writers these days. The money lies in series fiction. The longer the series, the more money you earn. You only end the series when the money stops flowing in. I don’t follow that philosophy. Most certainly not for Babylon. Which is why I’m…
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Babylon Bright(er)
Believe it or not, the Babylon series was meant to be darker and grittier than its current incarnation. Strange, I know, for a cyberpunk horror series that culminates in an apocalyptic campaign—which you can back on Kickstarter—but that’s how things panned out. Darkness has to serve a purpose. Reality doesn’t have to make sense, but…