I have a new short story collection in the works, to be p...

I have a new short story collection in the works, to be put out by an independent press. It will be a real print-on-paper book; and the publisher promises me it will look really good.

It will be stories based on Icelandic sagas. Eddic poetry, folk tales and folklore. I have written a number of these Icelandic fantasies, mostly in recent years. One was published in Tales of the Unanticipated, a local sf magazine, and another was published in Asimov's. The rest have not been published.

The best of these stories are darn fine. I'm happy this is happening.

I should add that this is not the collection I wrote about a few days ago. That project is due out at Wiscon, if all goes well, and is Big Mama stories.

And I just sold a story to Fantasy and Science Fiction. I have to write all this down, because it's getting to be too much to track in my head, especially since my head is full of plots.

Keeping track matters, because all at once, out of nowhere, an email will arrive telling me to do something against a deadline. I need to know what's likely to come zinging at me.

So, two collections, four stories in reprint anthologies, an audio anthology, one new story, and a partridge in a pear tree. Oh, and the essays I'm writing for Strange Horizons.

Oh, and the ongoing projects: the novel and a novelette for an original anthology. The novelette is due in May. I want the novel done this year.

This is almost a job.