Novel Architects - Kij Johnson Information about the Novel Architects workshops and master classes!

I seem to have a lot to mention here! I want to remind writers of my Fit & Finish: Microwriting course, focusing on how word-by-word and sentence-by-sentence decisions affect voice, pacing, theme, etc. Two weeks online, 1–3pm CST, 3/22 & 3/29. Details here: kijjohnson.com/teacher/

Birdhouse

Birdhouse

Birdhouse

Birdhouse

Raku-fired birdhouse with a Shou Sugi Ban roof.

Fanny Howe (!!)

Congratulations @rblemberg.bsky.social and all the other winners and nominees!!

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Ahhh!! We are 96% funded!! GO, SPACE UNICORNS, GO!!!!

Newest dice tower from the kiln!

“Heyyyy…how YOU Dune?”

Unglazed mug

Floating blue and flick ketchup glazed mug

Top down view glazed mug

Decided to combine two glazes and I’m really happy with this mug!

Raku dice tower in action!

Raku ceramic dice tower

Raku ceramic dice tower top view

Raku ceramic dice tower front

Raku ceramic dice tower

First attempt at making a Raku dice tower. I’m really happy with how it turned out!

The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers

This might be a better link: catrambo.teachable.com/l/products

I believe so! Just to make sure I enrolled in one of the teachable courses I’ve been eyeing for awhile to test it for you. I have good news and good news. The good news is it works. The other good news is I’ve FINALLY enrolled in the class, thus forcing me back into writing.

Cat Rambo’s workshops!

www.catrambo.com/academy/

Mug

Mug

Gollancz snaps up three-book deal from 'gifted' fantasy author JT Greathouse Gollancz has snapped up three epic fantasy novels from JT Greathouse, beginning with the standalone novel The Tower of the Tyrant.

Oh hey would you look at that.

I'm back at it again with @brendandurkin.bsky.social for three more books at @gollancz.bsky.social!

This one's got everything!
Ghosts!
Excessively virtuous knights!
A distressing tower!
A man who is also a tree?
Lots of birds!
Utopian anarchism!

It's great.

Discounted now in the Kobo store!

I am LITERALLY making a mug with that Bartleby quotation on it. I’m going to mail it to you. I think the universe wants you to have it.

Sister Nancy album playing, spring afternoon

Some “ad astra per aspera” mugs for colleagues

Mugs

Mugs

Mugs

Mugs

Is “of the first scene” an example of “in-sentence suspension?” 😂Seriously, though, my students and I love that writing exercise. Your newsletter is the best, Matt.

RiverBank: A cozy RPG of elegant animals, chaos, & whimsy Tea, Poetry and Total Disaster! Cozy up with Riverbank RPG, where elegant animals embark on whimsical adventures, celebrating friendship and folly while surviving dire visits from relatives.

RiverBank is over 100K! Please join us! We have specialty RiverBank tea... I am writing materials for stretch goals right now, and I would love to see them publishing. AND, if we do well enough, I may be able to do the campaign book that is in my mind.

Trans rights are human rights. Trans people have always been with us and always will be.

RiverBank: A cozy RPG of elegant animals, chaos, & whimsy Tea, Poetry and Total Disaster! Cozy up with Riverbank RPG, where elegant animals embark on whimsical adventures, celebrating friendship and folly while surviving dire visits from relatives.

Backerkit for RiverBank is live! #riverbankrpg