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.
EU Webstore | US Webstore | PDF at DTRPG
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.
Available on Amazon.com.
See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.
Ahem. I get it, but, perchance, do you really *cough* know how to hack into JSTOR? That would be most convenient for me…
I love it. I’m a big fan of both JSTOR and citations in library-wall graffiti.
Oh, no, I wouldn’t have the faintest clue. ;)
And it kills me that the first response to this post is not commenting on the geekery, but indulging in same. Muhahaha.
What geekery? I’d also be curious about the convenience James mentions…
Geek!
Bugmenot often has passwords for places like JSTOR and even places where registration is free… Failing that, you can usually find errant passwords on Livejournal, or by googling the ovbious phrase… :)
But I’m not condoning hacking into JSTOR or other wonderfully subversive, independent-scholarly activities. Ya geeks!
Tara,
Sorry, as you’re a new commenter, your comment got held in moderation for a bit.
Likes JSTOR and citations in library-wall graffiti, huh? A reader (and fellow writer) after my own heart. Welcome, and by the way, nice blog you’ve got yourself got over there…
mmm….academic graffiti. Wow, that’s l33t, I never thought of using Bugmenot to get into JSTOR.
You’re making me remember my favorite hangout in the college library back when I was in highschool — the HQ section. (insert Beavis and Butthead laugh here)
V,
Yeah, not so 133t, really. :) But handy for those whose universities don’t subscribe to that service. (For some reason the medical college has access, and we don’t.)
As for the college library — sorry, but what’s the HQ section? Oh, wait, is that some weird American thing? (Library of Congress system? ie. “Marriage. Family. Women”) Or am I totally missing your joke?
I was pleased to find that my building has automatic access to JSTOR. One of the few advantages to living on campus, but a nice one.
(Also, picking up passwords off the internet or Bug Me Not isn’t really hacking, so I’m going to continue to entertain the idea that you did something far more subversive…)
Charles,
Yeah, I envy you. We have database access, but the databases aren’t the ones I need, AFAIK. I was told, “Just request the articles you want and we’ll have them printed at another campus and sent over,” but I’d rather have the electronic format so I can store and read at leisure, and so on.
As for password-filching, who said I was doing that? ;)
Gord, I have access to pretty much anything through the UC system. If you need an article on not-very-short notice, just drop me a line.
~T
Thanks, Tristan! I definitely appreciate the offer.
I think I can probably get access if I wander over to one of the other Universities in Seoul, too — as I remember, Yonsei University and Seoul National University allow anyone to enter with an ID card, and I could probably database-trawl while there. I just wish I had access from campus, is all.
(Also, I could be mistaken: maybe Science Fiction Studies and NYROSF and so on are all available in one of the databases to which my campus subscribes. I should bug a librarian about that.)