A new Oberon story every month

Majestic wolfhound is majestic. Photo by @the_wolfhounds_of_denman on Instagram. Used with permission.

Hey Spiffy Peeps, I’ve moved my newsletter to a platform called Ghost for several reasons:
1) It allows comments without spam! I love it. I had to turn off comments on my blog years ago because of it, and I still deal with it regularly whenever I post on FB, but this has been great so far.
2) My posts stick around. With my former newsletter it would just disappear after emailed, so there was no real archive for folks to explore. And: no comments unless they replied to my email.
3) There’s some outstanding photography support for galleries; so long as you are viewing in the browser, you can click on a picture and it will embiggen and sharpen, then you can even zoom in for closeups.
4) The primary reason that is relevant to the post title is that Ghost allows me to offer free posts as I always have, but also offer a paid subscription so I can write a new Oberon story for you each month in 2024. They’ll be bathtime stories like Atticus told him throughout the Iron Druid Chronicles, so you might learn a little about a historical figure and then enjoy Oberon’s attempts to fit it into his worldview of morality, where squirrels equal evil and sausage is so very, very good. Think of it like this: you give me money for a taco, and I write you a short story and deliver it to your inbox. The twelve stories will be collected at the end of the year and recorded by audiobook narrator Luke Daniels, and if you subscribe for the year, you’ll get a download code for it (in 2025). Plus I’ll commission new Oberon art from artist Galen Dara. So your subscription will support me, Luke, and Galen. You’ll also get a gallery of spiffy nature photos from me and my Mom each month.

The newsletter/site is called Words & Birds. I just sent out my first free post and you should check that out to see what the free stuff is like—it’s reading recommendations and updates on my own writing shenanigans. The first Oberon story goes out next week, and it’s set in the Netherlands during World War II. So please subscribe at whatever level works for you, eh? Mostly I simply want to connect with y’all so I’m not dependent on some tech bro’s algorithm to keep you up to date.

CANDLE & CROW, the third Ink & Sigil book, has been turned in and the wheels of production are turning. I’ll have a cover reveal for you early next month, and it’ll be out October 1! Woohoo!

Peace & tacos, friends. Can’t wait to see you at Words & Birds.