Publishing has a lot gatekeepers, and it can feel like you have to wait for an invitation or acceptance to do things. But those are just feelings. The reality is that there are so many ways to bring your dreams to life these days. Enter, the Kickstarter for Martial Hero. When Strange Horizons e-zine had … Continue reading The Making of Martial Hero, A Wuxia / Xianxia Anthology
Bay Area friends, I'm very excited to be moderating the Starships and Second Chances panel on Sunday May 31, 2026 at 11am at The Marsh Cabernet: Elaine U. Cho, Millie Abecassis, and Tim Melody Pratt explore interstellar adventure, moderated by Julia Vee Fly off into epic futures where empires tremble, loyalties fracture, and the fate … Continue reading Bay Area Book Festival 2026!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a cover may be worth ten thousand. It's the reason why you give a book a second glance and pick it up. It should convey the feelings of the book (but not necessarily the literal exact scenes of the book). I had worked with Saiyre Illustration before … Continue reading The Making Of A Special Edition Book pt 2 – The Cover and Art!
A deep dive into what it takes to edit and format and print an offset print run of special edition book overseas. So I made a thing. Or rather, I've been making a thing. Back in early 2023, our friend group grew wildly enthusiastic about the Strange Horizons special edition submissions call for Wuxia stories. … Continue reading The Making of a Special Edition Book
I read a lot of Urban Fantasy. I read broadly but UF is probably my favorite. As a reader, I was totally unaware of publishing trends. But in the last few years I’ve had to learn a lot more about publishing and then I started to hear that “urban fantasy is dead” from publishing insiders. … Continue reading Urban Fantasy is Undead
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