Writing Update 7/26/2013

Okay, so this week’s writing update is a couple of days later, but compared to the usual abandonment issues this website suffers, it’s pretty mild.

My sneak preview of this week’s productivity was “I’m not going to be able to write much of anything this week,” and I lived up to that mighty promise. I wrote a 1000-word synopsis of I Have A Bad Feeling About This for the Sourcebooks marketing team and half of the introduction for the anthology Wicked Seasons and that’s it.

However, while I was at Necon (exciting recap coming soon), a certain publisher that I have worked with in the past said that he’d be resurrecting a certain chapbook line and asked if I’d write something for him. So expect another high-end chapbook at some point in the near, or perhaps distant, future. (I’m not sure that the secrecy is necessary, but it’s better to be safe than to have him/her scream “You fool! You’ve ruined everything!!!”)

Meanwhile, my story “Stumps” was officially accepted for the upcoming anthology Fear the Reaper. It was written at the editor’s request, so it’s not like I was drenched in perspiration every time I checked my e-mail…but getting a personal invite doesn’t always mean they’re gonna take the story!