New! South Korean SF author Djuna's Memoir of a Joseon Bride, which includes a short story translated by Jihyun Park and me, is coming soon (2026) from Honford Star. Click here to preorder.
New! South Korean SF author Djuna's Not Yet Gods in a new English translation by Jihyun Park and me, coming soon (2027?) from Kaya Press. Click here to visit the Kaya webpage for the book and preorder it from the publisher!
New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available over at DriveThru RPG.
My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.
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Before you get too riled up: that’s not really her bum. This is a Japanese product that’s on the market. The skirt has a picture of a bum printed on it.
Wow. That’s weird. Kind of interesting, in a “am I really looking at that?” kind of way.
Many aspects of the modern Japanese society are incredibly alien to me. I wonder what they think of American Geek subculture in Tokyo.
Yeah, well… as far as it goes, in Korea mainstream culture is slightly closer to American Geek culture than you might imagine… the humor, the obsessions of your average Korean friends, the way people talk and think about things. It’s one reason Korea is comfortable for me. But it’s weird… the kind of a fusion of Geek Culture and Mainstream that we have here makes it hard for a foreigner to really place anyone on the map. (And Koreans seem not to feel the same way about nerds as we do, especially foreign nerds whom they sometimes think – or claim to think – quite cool.) And then you start thinking of foreigners that way, and then you know readjusting to North America is gonna be damn hard if ever you must do it.
Givenwhat I know about Tokyo, American geek culture is definitely fetishized somewhere, and probably even studied in great, probing detail.