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03/31/26: meat city

My sword & sorcery novel Meat City is now available on Amazon!
Swashbuckling action! Foolhardiness! Intergalactic wizards! Castration curses! Flying eggs! Swamp monsters! Arguments! Old women! A city made of meat!

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ALL WHO ENTER SHALL BE DEVOURED!
Kolvis the Swordless Swordsman swallows a terrible fate: sold into slavery, purchased by the Fallen Angel Alcofribas, unwillingly partnered with a disgraced surgeon, forced to carry out an errand most foul.
An errand that will take him through the depths of the Valley of Heads, over land and sea, to a living city of abominable flesh, a monstrous architectural organism that seeks to consume all who dare venture within its tumorous walls.
But to the Meat City Kolvis must go, for Alcofribas has used hideous Angelic magic to place a curse upon the Swordless Swordsman. To earn his freedom, Kolvis must return to his master bearing sixty-six severed human hands. Should he fail, he will face a fate worse than death!

Paperback and kindle ebook are live. I'm in the process of setting up wide distribution so it will be orderable through bookstores. I'd also like to do a limited edition, locally printed, with original collages by me on the inside front and back covers, but as yet I'm still working that out and have no timeline, other than that I would like to have that local edition ready to go for my local Anarchist Book Fair in September.
I hope you enjoy.


01/23/26: dog men re-release

My first novel Dog Men is available on Amazon after being out of print for about 18 months.

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Only on amazon right now, but it should be orderable through bookstores shortly. I'll update this post when it is.
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Chris has burned every bridge—but that’s okay. He’s fine on his own. A born survivor, all he needs is his hammock, his ax, a little food, and his trusty Toyota Tercel.

In the remote Canadian wilderness, he finds serenity: a life of simple pleasures and invigorating hardship. But his solitary peace is shattered when a chance encounter at a highway rest stop sets off a chain of events that will erupt into an inferno of senseless violence.


12/23/25: at war with the homework doers

The problems with fantasy and science fiction right now are the problems of publishing in general. There are two aspects, and both intertwine material/capital and cultural problems....continue reading


11/27/25: toilet: refuge & risk

After yesterday's blogpost about CJ Cherryh's novel Rimrunners, I am once again thinking about one of my favourite subjects: CJ Cherryh on the toilet. Please bear with me. I don't mean "on the toilet" as in sitting on it, I mean like her perspective on the toilet. Please bear with me. I don't mean her perspective like what she sees when she's on the toilet I mean like...Please bear with me.


11/26/25: rimrunners

Thinking a lot about CJ Cherryh's novel Rimrunners lately. When I was in my late 20s, I got back into science fiction in a big way and I initially started buying books based on covers. I looked in little free libraries and thrift stores for the craziest, tackiest, most psychedelic, trashiest covers I could find. I read a lot of duds this way because a lot of sf is given a lurid cover to hide very staid, conservative storytelling. But I also found some legit gems this way. One of those was Rimrunners...continue reading


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