3x (Spiral Gardens, WANTED, Bloodletter)

Publishing a new short piece at a new venue; more information on my own new venture; and some light holiday reading

1. Spiral Gardens at Terrazzo

An excerpt from a novella I wrote in the winter of 2019/2020 titled Spiral Gardens is up at the magazine arm of a brand new publishing venture, Terrazzo Editions. Includes a mini-interview conducted by the editor, Gina Nutt. They’ll also be publishing books in the near future, a great thing to see especially given the recent relative dearth of independent publishers.

Read the rest here.

2. WANTED

While I’m on the topic of new magazines, I’ll be launching the new publishing project I mentioned a few weeks back in the early days of 2025. Lots of fresh fun shit in store, so keep an eye out for information on releases and submissions.

The project is called WANTED and is based on a dream I had of a website. AI haters will hate to hear that I used ChatGPT to write the code for me, and all I had to do was talk it into making it look exactly like it was in my dream.

3. Slower December

I’ve been slower on the draw with recent reading, kind of ever since I posted about finding time for reading on here. I’ve been pouring a lot more time into my working on my next novel, which is beginning to get out of hand in the best way. It’s nice to work on something without any immediate aspiration to do anything with it but build it, even if at the rate I’m going it would project to take the next decade to complete. I plan to post a follow up piece about finding time for writing sometime next week.

Right now I’m slow-reading David Kuhnlein’s Bloodletter, which is as fantastic as its predecessor, Die Closer to Me. I believe Bloodletter is sold out, but you should definitely pick up DCtM if you’re into language heavy, brutal sci-fi.

Also started reading Herscht 07769 a couple pages at a time while in the bathroom. Feel weary of the ‘one long sentence’ concept, like it’s basically arbitrary to say its all one sentence when really you’re just using shitloads of colons, semicolons, periods, etc. But at least it flows and makes you want to ride with it a while. I think I’d rather they just didn’t even mention that it’s supposedly all one sentence, like saying, “This building only has one door,” when it has hundreds of windows and other exits.

Have a good weekend!