"And I'm doing this, and I'm signing that..."

Again, a long radio silence, and with good reason: I've had a busy summer behind me, between the day job, another bout of illness (I'm genuinely starting to worry about my immune system) and a fair amount of writing. Not quite as much actual writing as I would like, but one can't always be hitting the notebooks. Sometimes you need to take a break and let the field sit fallow while you fertilize it with reading books/stories/oracular scribbles on walls and experiencing life experiences and listening to music and watching movies and things.

Mostly I've been busy with the business end of writing, to wit, going over edits (and there is one editor whom I owe a set of edits, which I've had some set-backs on, including the above-mentioned illness as well as a file conflict that required some technological tap-dancing) and reading/signing contracts. A fair number of them, while I'm at it,

Most importantly! Shadows in Salem: Wicked Tales from the Witch City, which features my short story "The Thing in the Graveyard" is now available for pre-order with a street date of September 6th, 2016 (Next Tuesday, as I write this on the Thursday before Labor Day), and I've also kit-bashed together an Author Page on Amazon, something which I hacked at for over an hour. Once I had it done and it had gone live, I caught myself sitting there staring at it in sheer disbelief. All these years I've admired the Amazon pages of authors I've liked and admired, and here's a page with my name and bemused face on it, alongside of so many other authors. The metaphoric ship has come in for me, it would seem!