The two of us have opened our own publishing house. This is an interesting step, and it has been fraught with, well, fraughtiness. Anyways, it exists, and it has its own website, which can be viewed here. Enjoy!
Assorted Ramblings (blog)
Digital Glamour: Awakening, now available for pre-order!
The first Digital Glamour Story, Awakening, is available for pre-order on a number of different digital delivery systems. The 11th century, AD, was a bad time for fairies. In the West, William the Conqueror is victorious over the fey-assisted Saxons at the Battle of Hastings. The Kievan Rus complete their rise to power despite Baba…
Miscon Report: The Greatest Little Convention in the World
We love Miscon. Alright, alright. Those of you who haven’t been are sitting there thinking “What’s Miscon? Where’s that?” Well, let’s start with this: it’s in Missoula. And it’s one of the best small cons there is. Yes, Missoula. Deal with it. I have a theory of why this convention is so awesome. You see,…
Westboro Wannabes Picket Norwescon
So, I’m in my hotel room at Norwescon. I don’t have a dealer table, and my panel appearances are kinda limited, so I’m making the best of it by getting as much done on Black Powder Goddess as I can. I’m deep into revisionland when all of a sudden a load, distorted voice from a…
The Stupidity of Faith
There is little in the art of writing lazier than faith as a plot point. See if these lines seem familiar: “All we can do now is believe in X” (Where X is the protagonist or, sometimes, the plucky sidekick–usually uttered when X is off doing momentous things and there’s a group of people basically…
Federal 2.0 – the Progressive Solution to the Current Government
Any time you have a problem, you have to boil that problem down to its bare essence. And the problem that progressives have, right now is not that the President totally opposes them. It’s not that Congress opposes them. It’s not the voters, it’s not “fake news,” and it’s not racism. All of those things…
The Reason We Study History
In 264 BC, the ancient Roman Republic became involved in a series of three wars with Carthage. Bear with me. I’m going somewhere with this. Carthage was a tough opponent, and Hannibal definitely gave Rome some problems in the 2nd Punic War, but the upshot of these things was that Rome kind of ended up…
No, I’m not doing NaNo. Don’t let me stop you.
No, we’re not doing NaNo this year. We didn’t do it last year, either. Fact is, I can’t foresee us doing a NaNoWriMo event ever again. It’s simply not an event that has value for us at our current place in our careers. Here’s what’s going on in our writing work at the moment:…
The problem isn’t misogyny, racism, bigotry, or hate.
All right, all right; I used a clickbaity title. This is Rome, I did the thing. So sue me. All of those things are problems. All of them. But I want to take them all as pieces of the puzzle, as symptoms of a much more fundamental issue that our societies are having. I’m proposing…
Quality and the Market
Is the new Ghostbusters movie any good? I have no idea. I haven’t seen it. Given the relatively decent review score (not stellar, but pretty good) over at Rotten Tomatoes, I’m thinking it’s probably a decent watch. I’ve been busy as hell, but this falls into the category of movies-I-wouldn’t-mind-watching. I read Brad Torgerson’s analysis of it, though, and…