Teetering seventy stories or so above the ground

I never share book-contract news until I have a signed contract in hand. But, yesterday, as I was fighting the urge to crow about my new deal, I realized it would be okay, this time, to speak before the contract came back because the news was already announced by Publisher's Weekly (thanks to the always-awesome efforts of the Tor PR department). So, yeah, I'm writing two more Weenie books. And I have a killer title for the next one. All I need, now, is a killer title story.

I'll admit that it is a bit daunting to contemplate writing sixty or seventy more stories. Actually, Ill probably be writing eighty or ninety, since not every story is a keeper. But there are people who come up with a new comic strip every day, or write a humor column several times a week. While I have a deadline for each manuscript, I don't have deadlines for any specific story. That makes things easier. I suppose the thing that makes it easiest of all is that I love writing short stories. They've always been my format of choice. I'm feeling incredibly fortunate that I can make a good portion of my living writing what I love.

Okay, that's enough love talk for one month. I'm not traveling this coming week, so maybe I can think up some fiendishly clever ways to promote Attack of the Vampire Weenies in this very space.