Three Months to GODFESTATION!
My Appalachian weird horror novella publishes August 11! Preorder now...
Latest
Now Available: DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL!
Enter an abandoned 80s mall overtaken by a warlock from another dimension, if you dare!
Now Available: THE VALE OF SEVEN DRAGONS!
At last, THE VALE OF SEVEN DRAGONS is here!
BSFA Awards Finalist!
NEWS: I am a BSFA Awards Finalist!
Longlisted for Multiple BSFA Awards as Writer and Artist!
I have made the longlist 6 times as author and as artist...and my imprint was nominated also!
THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL Is Here!
Today is publication day for my latest book, the sci-fi fantasy adventure, THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL!
2025 Awards Consideration and Upcoming Events
It's awards eligibility time again! Plus a late-addition event next weekend.
Threads Glitch June 18, 2025
Just an FYI, Threads has a massive glitch.
ATACAMA Is Here!
At last, my genre-bending novel ATACAMA is out in the world!
DOOMFLOWER Is Here!
It's release day for DOOMFLOWER!
BOOK DEAL NEWS!
Finally, I can announce this new book...
Producer
If you wondered what Stars and Sabers Publishing was an imprint of...
The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern
Two-Book Deal Announcement!
The news is out: we're headed back to the Lunarpunk future, as well as its past--aka our present!
British Fantasy Awards
NEWS! I'm Nominated Twice for the British Fantasy Awards!
It's with great delight that I announce I have TWO nominations for the British Fantasy Awards! They are THE SHADOW GALAXY for single-author collection and THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN for fantasy novel. Both these are under my J. Dianne Dotson pen name.
Publishing
Editor-in-Chief
It's LinkedIn official, which is my equivalent of bungee jumping, so I can say officially that I am Editor-in-Chief of our new imprint and Gareth L. Powell is Managing Editor. We will announce the imprint's name, along with the title of our first book
Books
BOOK DEAL Announcement!!
I'm delighted that my campy horror novel, DOOMFLOWER, will be published in 2025 via Encyclopocalypse Publications!
Awards
NEWS: I am a Nebula Award Finalist!
Finally, I can announce that I am a Nebula Award finalist! This is in addition being a BSFA Award finalist twice!
Books
Announcing My New Book: ATACAMA
The news is out!! My newest book is my first horror and speculative thriller novel, ATACAMA, out May 13, 2025 from Sley House Publishing!
BSFA
Award Nomination News!
I'd planned on sharing some other big news this week, but this news dropped and I am just so delighted! Two of my 2023 works have made it to the final nominations for the BSFA Awards! TWO! Even one would've been amazing, but two blows my
Longlisted 3 TIMES for BSFA Awards!!
Huge and incredible news! Hi all, Happy Friday! I have breaking news: I am longlisted 3 times for the BSFA Awards! Short fiction: "Copper" by Jendia Gammon (published by Interzone Magazine, Issue 295) Young fiction: "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" by J. Dianne Dotson (published