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My first novel came out yesterday. This is all new territory. When you've been dreaming of publishing a novel since you were 16, not just dreaming but working for it, growing, honing skills, interacting with writers and publishers year after year at events, readings, workshops, retreats, volunteering with indie presses, starting your own press etc,
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What’s Changed in Ten Years?
https://mossyskull.com/reckoning/whats-changed-in-ten-years/
Published: July 8, 2026 12:00
Reckoning, the magazine of creative writing on environmental justice I started in 2016, is ten years old this week. In ten years, what’s changed? Brain inserts here Dr. Manhattan sitting on the moon complaining humorously … The post What’s Changed in Ten…
In Which I Prophesy My Own Death by Vehicular Manslaughter
https://mossyskull.com/angry/in-which-i-prophesy-my-own-death-by-vehicular-manslaughter/
Published: June 23, 2026 13:00
I’ve told this story so many times it felt worth codifying for posterity. I am no haruspex, but the pattern’s too obvious and repeats far too often not to notice. Here’s how I’m going to … The post In Which I Prophesy My Own Death by Vehicular Manslaughter…
In the Woods Today: The Major Oak may be dead, but the Great Deku lives.
Published: June 19, 2026 13:20
I took my machete to the damp and windy woods to celebrate selling a fiction collection, THE PALADIN IN THE FOREST OF THORNS, to The Fabulist. It went amazing. I actually found the great grandpa … The post In the Woods Today: The Major Oak may be dead, but…
I Sold a Short Fiction Collection
https://mossyskull.com/writings/i-sold-a-short-fiction-collection/
Published: June 18, 2026 15:56
As of this morning, I have a signed contract and permission to publicly blow my celebratory carynx about the fact that in a few months, if all goes well, The Fabulist Editions will be publishing … The post I Sold a Short Fiction Collection first appeared…
AI may turn out to have been good for us after all?
https://mossyskull.com/technomancy/ai-may-turn-out-to-have-been-good-for-us-after-all/
Published: June 15, 2026 17:37
We had this conversation at @reckoningmag.bsky.social and came to the same conclusion: we won't employ AI detectors because we can't trust the results and most of them employ AI themselves. I do acknowledge that Pangram … The post AI may turn out to have…
From the Woods Today: Invasive Golden Oysters
https://mossyskull.com/visions/fungi/from-the-woods-today-invasive-golden-oysters/
Published: June 9, 2026 12:46
Looks like oyster mushroom po-boys is back on the menu, boys! Golden oysters are a relatively recent introduction to North America, having escaped repeatedly from cultivation. Even now you can order spores off the internet … The post From the Woods Today:…
Off Social Media
https://mossyskull.com/technomancy/off-social-media/
Published: June 5, 2026 19:20
I keep treating Bluesky like it’s Twitter in 2008, like a microjournal, a more convenient, pithier, quicker blog platform, by which I mean how I thought of blog platforms in 2004. I post excited things … The post Off Social Media first appeared on The…
A Eulogy for My Dad
https://mossyskull.com/realities/a-eulogy-for-my-dad/
Published: February 9, 2025 20:08
I’m not sure this is the appropriate place for this, but I’m off fb and a lot of people asked me to share it, especially for those who couldn’t be present. I hope I can … The post A Eulogy for My Dad first appeared on The Mossy Skull.
The Future of STEM Is Death
https://mossyskull.com/science-fiction/the-future-of-stem-is-death/
Published: January 14, 2025 17:01
The other day at my kid’s robotics club event, when he and a ton of other kids got to show off their lego robot submarines with cute poster displays featuring crayon drawings of undersea life, … The post The Future of STEM Is Death first appeared on The…
In Case I’ve Been Too Subtle
https://mossyskull.com/angry/in-case-ive-been-too-subtle/
Published: October 29, 2024 14:16
After Trump/Vance’s horrifically racist and fascist Madison Square Garden rally the other night did everything it could to invite comparisons to the pro-Nazi rally held at the same venue in 1939, it feels imperative to … The post In Case I’ve Been Too…