Raffalon before the end of the year

A little bird tells me -- actually, it's Charlie Finlay, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction -- that he expects to run the Raffalon story he has in inventory before the end of the year. When I sold it to him, it was called "Genius." But Charlie, being a good editor, has told me that there are already several other stories in the sf universe with that same title and it's not likely to draw the reader's eye. So the story has been renamed "The Amateur Vindicator," which I'm pretty sure makes it unique.

This will probably be the last Raffalon story to appear in a magazine. My intent is to write a new one and put it with all the others in a self-published collection. I'll have to wait six months for the exclusivity period for "Vindicator" to expire, which means the Raffalon collection will probably be out in the summer of 2017.

Unofficially, I can announce that I've also sold another story to F&SF, but the official announcement mustn't come until I get the contract and check from Gordon Van Gelder.