Busy, busy
I haven't updated the news page for a while, mainly because I've been inundated with work. So here's what's been happening:
I've sold three new episodes of The Kaslo Chronicles, the serialized novel that's running in Lightspeed Magazine. This is the story of Erm Kaslo, a hardboiled far-future "confidential operative" who hires on with a would-be wizard just as the universe's fundamental operating principle is about to switch from rational cause-and-effect to "sympathetic association" -- i.e., magic.
The third episode of the Kaslo saga, "His Elbow, Unkissed," is now running in the January issue of Lightspeed. If you want to read it right now, you can buy the ebook version of the whole issue. Or you can wait until January 14, when it will be posted on the online version of the magazine.
Amazon Audible has produced audio-book versions of my 2005 short story collection, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, as well as the first two Hapthorn novels, Majestrum and The Spiral Labyrinth. Amazon bought the audio rights from Skyhorse Books, which acquired them when it bought the original publisher, Nightshade Books. The rights to the third volume, Hespira, reverted to me. My agent will be talking to Amazon about getting something done. And I really ought to get Hespira out as a POD paperback, because the only dead-tree edition was the original Nightshade hardcover.
I've written another Raffalon novelette, "Prisoner of Pandarius," and sent it off to Gordon Van Gelder at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I hope he buys it, because I get a real kick out of appearing in the magazine Stephen King called, "the gold standard of American short fiction."
I've written two drafts of a screenplay of Transplant, a medical thriller by my friend, John A Elefteriades, MD, one of the world's foremost heart surgeons. Fingers crossed that the project strikes a chord in L.A.
I've edited a new edition of The Shards of Excalibur: Song of the Sword, a YA fantasy by the excellent Edward Willett, which will be out from Coteau Books in the spring. Ed combines Arthurian lore with contemporary urban fantasy to produce a gripping tale.
Next up: I have to proof the galleys of Old Growth, a myster featuring my alter ego, Sid Rafferty. It's the long-delayed sequel to Downshift (1997) and is set against the background of British Columbhia's "The War in the Woods" when environmentalists and the forest industry went toe to toe on Vancouver Island. It will be published on March 1 by Five Rivers Publishing, (which reprinted Downshift in 2012.
I've sold three new episodes of The Kaslo Chronicles, the serialized novel that's running in Lightspeed Magazine. This is the story of Erm Kaslo, a hardboiled far-future "confidential operative" who hires on with a would-be wizard just as the universe's fundamental operating principle is about to switch from rational cause-and-effect to "sympathetic association" -- i.e., magic.
The third episode of the Kaslo saga, "His Elbow, Unkissed," is now running in the January issue of Lightspeed. If you want to read it right now, you can buy the ebook version of the whole issue. Or you can wait until January 14, when it will be posted on the online version of the magazine.
Amazon Audible has produced audio-book versions of my 2005 short story collection, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, as well as the first two Hapthorn novels, Majestrum and The Spiral Labyrinth. Amazon bought the audio rights from Skyhorse Books, which acquired them when it bought the original publisher, Nightshade Books. The rights to the third volume, Hespira, reverted to me. My agent will be talking to Amazon about getting something done. And I really ought to get Hespira out as a POD paperback, because the only dead-tree edition was the original Nightshade hardcover.
I've written another Raffalon novelette, "Prisoner of Pandarius," and sent it off to Gordon Van Gelder at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I hope he buys it, because I get a real kick out of appearing in the magazine Stephen King called, "the gold standard of American short fiction."
I've written two drafts of a screenplay of Transplant, a medical thriller by my friend, John A Elefteriades, MD, one of the world's foremost heart surgeons. Fingers crossed that the project strikes a chord in L.A.
I've edited a new edition of The Shards of Excalibur: Song of the Sword, a YA fantasy by the excellent Edward Willett, which will be out from Coteau Books in the spring. Ed combines Arthurian lore with contemporary urban fantasy to produce a gripping tale.
Next up: I have to proof the galleys of Old Growth, a myster featuring my alter ego, Sid Rafferty. It's the long-delayed sequel to Downshift (1997) and is set against the background of British Columbhia's "The War in the Woods" when environmentalists and the forest industry went toe to toe on Vancouver Island. It will be published on March 1 by Five Rivers Publishing, (which reprinted Downshift in 2012.
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