My poem “Mortal” has been accepted by Spillway. I wrote the first draft of the poem nearly a year ago, and it belongs to The Sign of the Dragon. It’s a short poem, but I’m fond of it, and I am very glad it will be appearing in Spillway.

My poem The Cat Vet is online in Uppagus, my twelfth appearance there. It’s a poem in honor of the vet, Dr. Bebko.

My sister’s first child, a boy, was born earlier this week 🙂

On the writing front, my poems “Sheep” and “Traveling” are in the latest issue (#76) of Ship of Fools. They are both part of King Xau’s story, but are quieter interstitial poems, taking place between the main events. N.B. I have now had some 27 poems published in Ship of Fools, of which four are part of The Sign of the Dragon.

My poem Hero has won the 118th weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 “Hero” is a poem from the perspective not of the hero, but rather their wife. It first appeared in Star*Line and is part of The Sign of the Dragon.

To my great delight, I’ve had a very short story/oddity accepted by Analog 🙂 This will be my second story in Analog, the first having appeared back in 2003.

Also, my poem Stay appeared at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. “Stay” takes place eleven years into The Sign of the Dragon, and is one of the sadder installments in King Xau’s story.

My poem “Advice to a Houseplant,” written last month, has already appeared in Nano Text #1 , a Medusa’s Laugh anthology.

My poem Seventeenth Lesson is up at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 🙂 It’s a poem about a lesson — the seventeenth lesson! — that the dragon gives to King Xau’s eldest son, Keng. N.B. The first such lesson, titled just as imaginatively, appeared online last year in Silver Blade.

Happiness! My poem Returning has been nominated for the 2017 Rhysling Award. “Returning” first appeared in The Open Mouse, and is about King Xau riding through the night to get back home.

My poem “Five Arrows” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. It’s a poem about King Xau: not one with battles or dragons, but instead one where his youngest daughter tells him a story.

My poem “Daunted” is in the new issue of Dreams & Nightmares (issue 105). It’s one of the longer Xau poems, over a hundred lines, and features the dragon, Captain Li, and Xau, all of whom I am very fond of. The failings of the poem are mine, not theirs 🙂 I note that pdfs of the issue can be ordered for $1, and that the issue contains poems by Ann K. Schwader, Sandra Lindow, Marge Simon, and more.