Tabletop Tuesday — Deck of Worlds, or “What to do when your idea well dries up before a session.”

Right now, I'm narrating three campaigns, though one of them is in a holding pattern. I'll be running a Mutants & Masterminds one-shot for an upcoming charity play (check out Bag of Giving, by the way), and I've got two Star Trek Adventures campaigns ongoing, like I mentioned last week. And while I'm generally Mr. …

Happy Pride! (And two new title announcements!)

Happy Pride Month! It's that time of year again, though here in Ottawa I always get the one-two punch of Pride Month in June and then Pride itself in August. Frankly, I'm extra down with that, since I figure we deserve at least two months given how the elections keep going in this damn province. …

Feeling a little “Hope Echoes” today.

155-4-12 169-4-36 169-5-22, 160-18-8 155-4-12 170-8-23 176-5-2. Art by Micah.

One Week Until ‘A Little Village Blend!’

It's coming up soon! There's only a week remaining until 'A Little Village Blend,' my wee gay romance novella, is available via Bold Strokes Books' webstore! (It launches everywhere else July 13th). Tea. Magic. A tall, dark, and grumpy soldier. A sister who is never wrong. Really, Ivan has a lot on his plate. According …

Short Stories 366:273 — “Tangled Up in You,” by Suleikha Snyder

Okay, so we all know how I feel about superhero stories, so likely it will be a surprise to none of you how much I squeed out about this story once I realized it took place in an academy for people with gifts, and how the main character was a woman who has powers much …

Short Stories 366:188 — “What is a Volcano?” by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Oh, holy flying heck this was wonderful. Found in What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, and told as a kind of parable or folk tale, "What is a Volcano?" has a narrative that begins with the god of ants and the goddess of rivers having a disagreement that escalates, but while …