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DUSTBEARER and other news.

One of the things I’ve been working on recently is a series of fantasy stories, entitled DUSTBEARER. The first collection of which should be going out sometime later this month, probably in the week of the 22nd. Here’s a sample from the cover artist, Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein:

“the land devours those living” by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein

Keep in mind this isn’t the cover art, but it will be in this vein. Which is fine by me. I was pointed towards her work via Twitter, which is how things get done these days, apparently. The atmosphere she creates is a pretty perfect match for the stories, so I’m very excited to have come across her work.

I’ve labelled DUSTBEARER as fantasy, but there’s some horror there, and hopefully something a lot more than the sort of standard wizards and elves and that sort of thing. Don’t get me wrong. I grew up reading fantasy alongside sci-fi and comics and all that. As a genre it gets something of a bad rap, but a lot of things, primarily the LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT movies and the GAME OF THRONES books have changed the expectation levels. Which is fine by me, just don’t expect my work to simply ape those. And between you and me, I want to take what works in superhero comics and graft some of that into the stories (yeah, I can’t do the visuals, I get that, but I can push some boundaries other places.)

Right now there’s going to be the story collection. Have a novel more or less planned out. Now I just need to figure out if I’m going to write it next or not.

In other news, I’m going to be putting out a book called BLUE HIGHWAY. I joke that it’s sci-fi/noir/magical realism, but it’s not that much of a joke. And the artist I’ve asked to do the cover is a hum-dinger, let me tell you. More on that as the time approaches. Perhaps a May release, but I can’t guarantee it. It’s a toss-up whether I work on the sequel to this one or do the first DUSTBEARER novel first. Oh yeah, the sequel would be called THE LEVIATHAN BANKS.

Additionally, I’m putting the final touches on the second collection of my non-fiction/commentary/convention reports. Tentatively titled HIGHWAY 62 REVISITED, but I might go with FULLY BLED instead. I expect that to be out in the next couple of weeks as well.

Now if any of you fine folks wants to talk to me about publishing these works, I’m all ears.

Right. I thought not.

 

2013 update

Like anyone actually reads this…

So yeah, new year. New stuff going. No central warehouse to put it in.

If you’re following my various work and have missed something, here’s where it all goes.

 

http://highway62.tumblr.com – Tumblr blog, about half original content and half reblogs of intriguing detritus.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxwellm – Flickr site where photos are posted on occasion.

 

http://theroswellincident.bandcamp.com – Bandcamp home of The Roswell Incident, where you can listen to the latest release from the band, entitled HIGH ORBITAL

 

http://tinyurl.com/mattmaxwellauthor – Which takes you to my Amazon page, where I can talk up the books I’ve got my name signed to (which don’t sell as well as the ones I’ve worked on but don’t have my name signed to them.

 

http://twitter.com/highway_62 – Twitter, where I spend too much time and energy. @highway_62 to follow.

I’m on Facebook, but trailing that down. Email really works better. So does Twitter.

 

Current projects

The One I Can’t Talk About – Don’t ask. Not my personal work anyways.

BLUE HIGHWAY – Revision of the 1991 manuscript. Science fiction. Got a lot of predictions right, many very, very wrong. Wasn’t necessarily trying to prefigure the world anyways, and the things I got right I’m wishing I hadn’t. Anyways, should be out in the next few months on Kindle. Will update

The Roswell Incident is working on a couple of compilation tracks and trying to figure out how to afford one of the new Moog keyboards once they come out this year.

For Halloween, 2012

This will be here for a little while. Not a traditional Halloween story, but hopefully in the spirit of the day.

EDIT – The whole of this story will be available in a future collection of short stories. Once the third one gets written and the second gets re-written. Might be by the end of the year, but don’t hold your breath.

 

MOONFLOWER

By Matt Maxwell

 

Oh yeah you bet this got nuked. It’s going into the DUSTBEARER collection, so no, I’m not giving it away anymore.