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Meanwhile, let's have a sale!

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Volume 1 of the epic, on sale!
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May 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Read the acclaimed urban fantasy epic! Paperbacks, ebooks, omnibus collections—44 novelettes (so far), no waiting!

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Book-shaped collections of the story so far, available wherever fine book-shaped objects are sold.
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April 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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A morning reflection.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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November 7, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Which means, starting next week, and appearing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays—the 32nd novelette, " – only to sit – "

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No. 32, “ – only to sit – ”. A stretch of undergrowth just off the path, overwhelmed by fallen rhododendron flowers, petals creamy pale and speckled with reddish oranges and orangey reds, and nestled among them a plastic juice bottle, wide-mouthed, green-capped, the label of it peeled away, but the sort that usually holds fruit juice, orange, lemon-yellow, cranberry magenta, but the liquid in it, just a splash, made out through clinging condensation, is a slick of milky white, frothed at the edge with bubbles, shot through with a hint of gold.
March 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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The 30th novelette, " – on pretending that – ", is up in its entirety—30 novelettes of acclaimed urban fantasy, yours for the reading, all online!

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No. 30, “ – on pretending that – ”. A half-enclosed payphone outside, on a sidewalk, the metal shelf of it and blinds overwritten with exuberant blue graffiti, and black graffiti scrawled over the face of the phone itself, none of it terribly legible. The handset dangles loose from its jointed metal cord, the earpiece of it somehow broken off and gone. The phone books’s still attached to its bracket. Little yellow leaves litter the concrete beneath it.
February 27, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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The first season of the epic—the first two volumes—gathered together in an ebook omnibus for only eight bucks American:

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Autumn into Winter
An ebook omnibus collecting nos. 1 – 22.
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August 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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"It's like Twin Peaks had a baby with Once Upon a Time."

City of Roses, vol. 2: The Dazzle of Day
Novelettes 12 – 22: ebook and/or paperback editions

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Vol. 2, The Dazzle of Day. The sun rises bright but indistinct behind icy clouds over a fog-bound river, girdered bridgework crossing it to the right there, to lose itself in the haze before reaching the other side, and tiny trees lining this side, weirdly sharp against the water gelid and still. Low riverfront buildings below, a hotel, perhaps, some old brick-walled offices, all still bluely dimmed despite the rising brightness.
July 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Which means, starting next week and appearing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, it's time for the 30th novelette, " – on pretending that – "

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No. 30, “ – on pretending that – ”. A half-enclosed payphone outside, on a sidewalk, the metal shelf of it and blinds overwritten with exuberant blue graffiti, and black graffiti scrawled over the face of the phone itself, none of it terribly legible. The handset dangles loose from its jointed metal cord, the earpiece of it somehow broken off and gone. The phone books’s still attached to its bracket. Little yellow leaves litter the concrete beneath it.
February 13, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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"Our reviewers loved the world-building and well-drawn characters."

"Action scenes resolve in single run-on sentences like giant domino arrangements going off precisely."

"Just a glorious bit of writing, I can't recommend it highly enough."

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City of Roses
Book-shaped collections of the story so far, available wherever fine book-shaped objects are sold.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Twenty years, so far—and more to come!

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Twenty years of roses
Pre-order the hardcover edition of vol. 1 for just twenty-five US dollars.
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August 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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The 23rd novelette, " – the thin ice – ", is now complete online: the kick-off of the second season of the epic. Go and read!

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No. 23, “ – the thin ice – ”. A lit-up sign hung in otherwise featureless darkness, red with a narrow yellow border, and a thick blue border about that, and a stylized yellow hand held up, fingers crossed. Oregon Lottery, it says, and the little circled R of a registered trademark.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The 14th novelette, "Mayhem," is under way:

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City of Roses | No. 14: Mayhem
In which a knife is plunged, a debt repaid (in part), an oracle's consulted, words are had, and swords are drawn.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Queen of All? Mountain-shod, Sun-clad, the Star-crowned Lady, who is never but Maid and Mother and Loathly Crone? The Acme, the Zenith, the One True Only and Ever for Always?

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City of Roses
Each installment of the serialized phantastick, arrayed in reading order for your convenience.
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April 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The first novelette (of forty-four) (so far), appearing this week and next:

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In which a favor is done, a party is thrown, a duel is fought, and a question rashly answered.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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(I never remember to do hashtags on these!)

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Goodness! More new followers. Hello! —City of Roses is a long-running, critically acclaimed serial, an urban fantasy epic set in Portland, Oregon, "the rose garden town where the red, brown, blackshirt cops ride up and down," as Woody Guthrie once said.
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The story of Jo Maguire, a highly strung, underemployed telemarketer, and what happens when she meets Ysabel, a princess of unspecified pedigree—
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November 13, 2024 at 2:44 AM