In my last thrilling update, I’d said that I had two short stories due. No doubt you’ve suffered many sleepless nights since then, wondering if I finished them. (“What if he missed his deadline? Do authors get their legs broken for that? What if Jeff’s legs are broken right now? Could I have saved him if I acted sooner?”)
Well, you need stress out no longer. They’re both done. One was for a collection of dark fantasy stories called Out of Tune edited by Jonathan Maberry, and the other was for…actually, that one still may be a secret. Out of Tune, however, has an all-star (except for me) roster of authors including Kelley Armstrong, Simon R. Green, Jack Ketchum, Nancy Holder, Seanan McGuire, Keith DeCandido, Gregory Frost, David Liss, Christopher Golden, and Del Howison. My story is very, very, very silly.
[UPDATE: The other project is a book called The Gruesome Tensome: A Short Story Tribute To the Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis, edited by Nick Cato.]
I heard back on my story for the tie-in project that I’m still not allowed to reveal. Fortunately, it was not “WTF were you thinking, you fool?!? You’ve doomed the franchise! Dooooooooooooomed it!!!” I’ll announce it soon(ish).
No updates on my novel Kumquat, dammit.
Any time I announce a project that’s in the early stages, you pretty much have to say “Yeah, yeah, we’ll see if that happens.” But at the moment, it looks like my next novella for DarkFuse is going to be called Chiggers. If you kids are interested, I may do semi-regular updates on this one, following it through the entire process.
December 18, 2013 at 11:24 am
Having grown up in OH, just hearing the word chiggers set my skin to crawling.
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December 18, 2013 at 1:36 pm
They’re on you NOW!!!
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December 18, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Nice, I’ll have to pick up Chiggers on the secondary market since I’m not part of their mini-HC club. I’ve got all yours so far, gotta keep the collection going.
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December 18, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Yeah, the lack of availability outside the book club is a definite bummer.
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December 18, 2013 at 5:15 pm
if you spent less time on here building us up just to tell us i cant tell you you might get a little more accomplished Just Kidding love hearing anything you update us on Your the BEST…..do you think your followers will catch on that we are close realatives???LOL
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December 19, 2013 at 7:10 am
If I didn’t at least hint about what I’m working on, you’d think I was a SLACKER!
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