Hello All! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. I just wanted to drop you a quick line to let you know that the complete omnibus edition of The Dreaming Land is being featured on Kobo right now as part of their spotlight on Diverse Stories. And they’re all completely free! You can check out the page here. When […]

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Hello All! Happy Autumnal Equinox! To start off, here’s a delightful Finnish song about fall for your listening pleasure: In my own news, I’ve been slowly working on the audiobook of The Midnight Land for…well, ever since May. I’ve been stopping and starting to work on other projects, though, so something that was always going to be […]

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Hi Everyone! Exciting news and fun pictures lie ahead–but first a quick reminder that I’m participating in the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale, and all my books that weren’t already free are currently eligible for the 100% off coupon SS100. Just enter it at checkout and you can get my (and many other) books free! And then the next bit […]

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Hi All! Just a quick reminder to let you know that I’m participating in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale this month, and you can get 100% off all my books with the coupon code SS100. Check out the main sale page here and my personal page here. Other than that, I don’t have a huge amount of news. Fitz (as in […]

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Hello All! Happy summer! We have crossed the meridian, the solstice is past, and it is now officially summer up here in the northern hemisphere! I hope you are avoiding storms, wildfires, and the other delights the season has been offering us. As usual, it remains an exciting time to be a Russianist, but in […]

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Hello Everyone! Welcome to 2023! I hope you are having a peaceful and hopeful start to the new year. I myself survived the giant Deep Freeze of Christmas 2022 with minimal damage, although this gorgeous Tiger’s Eye viola blossom, alas, did not. It was lovely while it lasted, and maybe there will be another round […]

Read more "Deep discount on audiobook of The Singing Shore I!"

Hi All, and Happy Holidays! Well, it’s nippy here in NC, and the big cold snap of next week hasn’t even started yet. I am trying to psych myself up for a white Christmas, but frankly snow and ice wreak havoc in this part of the world. Still, if it happens, it will at least […]

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Hello All! I hope you are doing well, and if you were in the path of Hurricane Ian, that it passed you by lightly. It roared over us last night, but it looks like our neighborhood has gotten off pretty easily so far. Fingers crossed that that’s it for the storm, and for hurricane season […]

Read more "The Singing Shore II: Sky and Stone is out now!"

Hey Everyone! I hope the first week of August is treating you well! Here in NC, I’ve been trying to beat the heat while I work feverishly on the audiobooks of The Singing Shore II and The Singing Shore III simultaneously. I finished recording the audiobook of TSSII last month, and am now busily editing it, while also doing the initial recording […]

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