New Year and at last, a New Blog Post

Hello again, dear readers! And so I return after a long absence: work kept me very busy from the middle of November till the beginning of this month. Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hannukkah, New Year's Eve/Day are a very busy time in grocery retail, and so my writing more or less went on hold. Not to say that I didn't have some writing-related work alongside working in the store. The final edits for my offering in Transmundane Press's After the Happily Ever After came in and I had to sign off on those, then came the long wait for my contributor copy, which finally arrived today (at a good time, since it made me feel better as I'm currently dealing with an annoying stomach bug). This is the thickest book I have a selection in, and it's smack in the middle of the book. This marks the fourth book with a piece of my work in it that came out in 2016, and the sixth story that I have in print.

Looking ahead to 2017, I recently signed off on a rough draft of an especially exciting project, an anthology of stories inspired by the King Arthur legends, with a framing device in the form of a novella, making it a collection of stories within a story, and also, I have a secret project in the works, which I'll reveal in due time, as it turned into a present for my dad.

And in new works, I have a story in progress, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space", which I'm sending to an anthology of stories inspired by same, My offering came about after seeing some rather odd-looking vegetables in the fruits and vegetables display at the Topsfield Fair, and since there's things in the Lovecraft story involving weird-looking produce, I knew exactly where I was going with this offering.

In the meantime, take care of yourselves, dear readers, and may this new year be full of new books to read!