Payne's fiction has been published by the likes of Tor Books, the Writers of the Future Contest anthology, and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, and his capsule book reviews appear weekly on the SFWA web site. He's written webcomic reviews for the Webcomics Examiner, is the Registrar for the Webcartoonists' Choice Awards, and his webcomics are Terebinth (updated five times a fortnight), and Daily Grind (updated five times a week as part of the Daily Grind Iron Man Competition). He doesn't draw very well.