Shooting Fish Proof Copy Read, Returned; Appointment Contract Renewed

Two quickies today for the “writing life” in an otherwise fairly dead, still-pandemic mid-month May. But then that’s how it goes: the feast, then the famine — not that it’s not that way sometimes even without COVID-19.

The first comes from ASININE ASSASSINS Editor Weldon Burge: I’ve attached an edited, formatted proof of your story. Please look it over and make sure you agree with any changes that have been made. If this draft meets your approval, please let me know and we’ll move on to the next production phase. The work will next go to a proofreader/copy editor, so other minor changes are likely to be made before the book goes to print. The story in question, “Shooting Fish” (see March 3, below), a saga of alien would-be invasion originally published in the UK in FORGOTTEN WORLDS, Autumn 2006.

Then the second, a trip to a slightly more distant past regarding CURIOSITIES/CURIOUS GALLERY and “Appointment in Time” (cf. May 4 and 1, 2019), this for a podcast as well as print and e-publication of a New Year’s Eve story of clockpunk horror. Thus delays plague us all, in this case requiring a contract extension for, hopefully, the appearance soon of another reprint, this one from Untreed Reads’ 2012 anthology, YEARS END: 14 TALES OF HOLIDAY HORROR.