Speaking of Witches: Bio etc. Requested for Flying

The email came today, short and direct: We are going into production of the anthology NATURAL INSTINCTS, and contracts are being drawn up. What we require from you at this point is the following:

1) Up to date bio and author photo. Please keep bio’s short.
2) Physical mailing address and legal name.

To give it its full title, the book in question is NATURAL INSTINCTS TALES OF WITCHES AND WARLOCKS from Zombie Works Publications (cf. September 5), with my story in it “Flying.” And it was a quick acceptance too, coming back just two days after I’d sent the story. It has to do with a woman in eighteenth century Spain, in the court of Philip V, who under the pressures of palace intrigue is driven to witchcraft. And in NATURAL INSTINCTS, as I understand from the guidelines, it was one of only thirteen acceptances, though (the guidelines also specifying stories between 2000 and 3000 words, which would make for a rather short collection) there may be others solicited or accepted before, perhaps from an earlier call.

Be that as it may, this is one I’m really looking forward to seeing when it comes out, witches being interesting in themselves but also because this particular story is an earlier favorite of mine, and one I’ll be glad to have in print again. To be sure, I’ve already sent the requested items back, as it looks like they’re trying to get it out fast and I don’t want to delay them.