Time For A New Space
I've been on this internet for quite a long time-- certainly as long as it was an actual internet, and I should be comfortable with times of transition-- when one of your primary forms of interactions online either fades away or implodes. I’ve been through plenty of fades and plenty of implosions, and have dusted myself off and moved somewhere new. And is usually my way, I tend to create new spaces before I’m ready to actually use them. I started my Twitter account in 2010, but I really didn’t use it much until at least 2013 or 2014— about when Livejournal was in its real death throes.1
Now Twitter is fading into implosion, so we move on. This one is a bit harder, in no small part due to the fact that it was far more tied to my professional identity. I will adjust, but there is definitely more of a sense of needing to rebuild something instead of merely replace it.
This account on Substack, I created a few years ago, but never really used it. In part because of the “Oh, right, another thing” factor, but also because you start to ask, what different function does this serve? I have a blog on my website, I have a newsletter, and even a Patreon2 what different thing will this be?
The answer is, I really don’t know.
BUT, here is one thing I do know: just as internet platforms are in transition, so am I. I won’t go into all the details, but the short version is, after 16 novels with DAW Books, right now I don’t have an agent, and I don’t have any more books under contract. So I am on the lookout for a new agent, and also writing new things (that are not connected to Maradaine) that will, hopefully, get the attention of a new agent and publisher. In the meantime, I have put out a novella and a novelette with Artemesia Books, and plan to put out one more of each before the end of the year. I am still writing Maradaine Novels, which will, in all likelihood, also be put out under the Artemisia name.
Plus, I’m still doing Worldbuilding for Masochists, which just put out its 100th episode. It continues to be a delight to do with two of my favorite people in this business.
In the mean time, if you want to dive into all my collected works, there’s plenty of choices for you:
So, for now: Hello! I’m here! We’ll see how this goes.
Livejournal is not actually dead, but it is an internet ghost town. Out of curiosity, I logged in about a month ago to find that one person I followed back in the day is still posting to the void almost daily. I respect that kind of dedication to a task, regardless if anyone is listening. Good on them.
Which I am, admittedly, terrible about. I should get better, but that’s not happening any time soon.