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Appearances Update 9/1/09

Here's what's currently on deck.

October 4th

The West Hollywood Book Fair.

I'll be sharing a panel on Sunday, October 4th from noon to 12:55pm.

GHOSTS, GHOULS & GOBLINS: EXPLORING THE SUPERNATURAL IN MYSTERY FICTION

Jan Burke

Charlie Huston

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Linda O. Johnston

Moderator: Leslie Klinger

PLEASE NOTE THAT I WILL NOT BE SIGNING AFTER THE PANEL

October 10th.
The Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN.
I'll be speaking on Saturday, October 10th from 4-5 p.m in the House Chambers of ...

Orbits of Fear

There is no center of gravity to my writing.

This is, I believe, and temporary state of things.

But for years now, for as long as I've been doing this for a living, my writing life had revolved around a single major project.

What that project might be at any time changed every six to nine months, but there was always a singularity that every other project had to allow for.

Always there was either a crime book or a Joe Pitt book that was in first draft; the stage where I lavished the most...

To Lodge In The Mind

If you are even a semi-regular reader of Bruce Sterling's beyond the beyond blog, you will know that one of his current thought frames is a futurist vision that breaks most everything into categories he has described as Gothic High-Tech and Favela Chic.

I could attempt to articulate these ideas, but you'll probably have a better time watching a video of the man doing it himself. Such a thing can be found HERE.

The ideas are, in and of themselves, both fascinating and viable. Which is to...

Deathlok

Announced from the soul-sucking floor of San Diego Comic Con, I have written a seven issues "Deathlok" miniseries for Marvel. Lan Medina on pencils and percussion.

I wrapped my work on this one some time back, but Marvel has been stockpiling art and looking for a release slot. Now that Lan has illustrated over five full issues, the cat is officially out of the bag. I'm not certain when the title will publish, but I think November is likely.

It's a dark SF adventure story with an underpinning ...