I am pleased as punch to announce that my story, “The Raven’s Venture,” for which I won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future contest, will be published in an upcoming anthology called Shards: A Noblebright Fantasy Anthology on October 1st from all major retailers (links below).

Ooh! Lovely cover, right?

Noblebright, if you’re wondering, refers to a newer subgenre of fantasy with an emphasis on the heroic and the hopeful. As far as I know, the term was popularized by the editor...