Journal

Craft notes, world-building excerpts, and updates from Antumbra Press.

Field notes: the seam between two chapters

June 29, 2026

Chapters three and four are one long day split in half, and most of the work was the unglamorous back-and-forth of making the two halves agree — a boring report, a color that has to mean one thing, and a gap I refused to close.

Field notes: the engine room

June 19, 2026

Craft notes from a week spent under the floor of the magic — why the rules came before the reasons, the discipline of building a system readers will never see, and letting the page outrank the worldbuilding.

Field notes: the week that ran away

June 10, 2026

A field note from a week that ran away. The day job shifting under me, what my wife calls 'scrappy,' and a note for anyone whose dreams have to wait.

Field notes: Arc I editorial pass

June 3, 2026

A verification pass across the nine chapters of Arc I. What the continuity sweep caught, where the prose tics surface under pressure, and the moment to stop sanding.

Welcome to Antumbra Press

June 2, 2026

Why an imprint, what "Antumbra" means, and what to expect from this journal during the run-up to Three Cages.