Friday Quick Notes

Here's a little book sale some of you might be interested in. Lethe Press is selling Spicy Slipstream Stories, which I edited with Jay Lake, for ten bucks! Down from fifteen! Includes stories by Carrie Vaughn, Ekaterina Sedia, and more. Also, all royalties go to Jay's family, as I signed them over to the estate after his passing last year.

Pretty psyched to have sold a Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder story to an anthology. More information to come in a week or so. It was an interesting thing to try, as Hodgson's originals are a bit weird and not widely read these days. Though my story veers from the Carnacki formula of his friends listening to him describe a recent case of exploring a possibly supernatural event, I tried to keep to the tone typical of the stories. Other things I've been working on lately have been going in very different directions. I occasionally end up some list or other of "Weird fiction" writers, though I never really overly associated myself with that scene despite all the Lovecraftian work I've done. I find digging into some old set of stories and trying to create something like it a formal challenge, but don't feel the sort of visceral connection a lot of contemporary writers working in the weird mode do to these old cats. I just like formal exercises and mimickry.

Forthcoming very soon from my day job is a new hard SF novel called Gene Mapper. If you're a book reviewer (a real one), drop me a line!