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The New Worlds Patreon is ready to strut its stuff upon the stage! Or at least to talk about the people who do so, and the types of stages they use. Comment over there!

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Sometimes it's fun for the New Worlds Patreon to take a look at pseudoscience. But the ideas behind physiognomy and phrenology are pretty ugly . . . comment over there.

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Apologies for the lack of notification posted here for last week's New Worlds Patreon essay; due to being smacked down with covid, I did the bare minimum of posting the essay to Book View Cafe and notifying my patrons, then went back to sleeping inhuman amounts. But you can still take a look at the August theory post, What to Read, and then continue on to the first essay of September, on dragons in folklore and fiction. Comment over there!

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It's gonna be a racy month at the New Worlds Patreon, as we turn our attention back to the topic of sex. Even discussing virginity requires us to get very frank about people's bodies -- comment over there!

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Wrapping up a month of the functional arts, the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look the wonders we have wrought with metal! Comment over there . . .

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Book View Cafe has started up a YouTube channel for author readings -- it's a great way to sample the works in our catalogue, if you enjoy listening to fiction as well as reading it on the page. I've done recordings of samples for many of my titles there, and those are starting to roll out; if you want to hear me reading the prologue from Midnight Never Come or from In Ashes Lie, go check 'em out!

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It's been several years since I put out one of my mini-short story collections, but a new one is en route! A Breviary of Fire honestly could have been ready a bit sooner, but I fell into a slightly OCD determination to balance out the regional groupings within the collection so they had equal numbers of stories. Because of this, the publication dates of the stories range from 2005 to 2023. They're all based on folklore and mythology in some fashion, but not European fairy tales (those have gone into Monstrous Beauty and Never After), nor on folksongs (those will be getting their own collection, probably next year).

A Breviary of Fire will be out on the twenty-first of this month. You can preorder it via the links here or wait for it to come out so you can buy it direct from the publisher, Book View Cafe; there will also be a print edition, but I've been juggling too many things to have that quiiiite ready in time for simultaneous publication with the ebook. I will definitely post here when the ebook and print pub dates happen, though!

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The New Worlds Patreon is ending April with a topic near and dear to my archaeological heart: the question of how much ancient sites are ever truly "lost." Comment over there!

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The Pyramids of Egypt, the Argonath of Gondor . . . the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the wonders of megalithic architecture. Comment over there!

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Year Eight of the New Worlds Patreon is going to be a busy one for theory posts, as there are five months with five Fridays in them! To start us off, I recommend the merits of being a goat -- comment over there!

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