What’s going on with me? Well, I’m glad you asked! Aside from DUSTER (epic dark fantasy out in a week), I’ve got a few things available right now. NUNS WITH GUNS — My story, “Scent of a Demon”, leads the Blaze Ward anthology where the only rule was that at some point in […]
On saturday, my fantasy novel, DUSTER, will be available for pre-order on Amazon. Two weeks after that will be the official release date. I’m calling it a dark fantasy about dead gods, older heroes, and a world at war. Here’s my current blurb: “From award-winning author Adam Stemple comes a gripping story set in a […]
Orca Literary Magazine A non-genre flash piece for Orca Literary Magazine. The folks at Orca have been great and believed in this piece enough to submit it for consideration for the Pushcart Prize!
So I’m a little late on this, but here goes… WRITING: It was a good year for writing as I left my 40+ hour a week job and concentrated on creative pursuits fully for the first time in five years. I went from having 3-5 things out on submission at any one time to 15-30. […]
Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable One of the saddest damn things I’ve ever written. Read it here.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, 2019 I wrote this story a long time ago and was my audition piece for entry into my current writers group, The Wyrdsmiths. I rewrote it many times since then and am thrilled to have it out with a SFWA qualified market like CR&ES. You can read it here. It […]
Reckoning 3 Reckoning is a very cool publication that does creative writing on environmental justice. You can read the poem on their website, as well as order the ebook or print edition. “Stoking both hope and righteous anger, this far-ranging compendium of writings—visionary, minatory, consolatory by turns—faces our environmental future head-on, honestly but without […]
I sold a short story to Orca Literary Journal yesterday! It’s a non-genre flash piece called A Season’s End and will be in their second issue. I can’t really begin to explain how excited I am. But I will try… All sales are super exciting. Writers have to have a thick skin about rejections—because you’re […]
It is that most wonderful of days in an author’s life: a book birthday. Today marks the publication date of Jane Yolen’s and my newest novella, The Last Tsar’s Dragons. It is, as the title suggests, a story of the Russian Revolution but with dragons added. Many thanks to all the great people at Tachyon […]
It is a long held belief that there is no one way to write, and that those who tell you differently, tell you that their way is the One True Way, are at best ill-informed. More likely, they’re trying to sell you advice that they know is worthless. I’m not going to disabuse you of […]
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