News

Disaster strikes (it always does eventually, doesn’t it?) I was due to attend World Fantasy in Saratoga Springs, NY, this month. Was going to have dinner with my new editor at HarperCollins. Was booked to do a half-hour reading at the con. Had everything prepared. And then I got struck down with this flu bug that’s been going around, and was too sick to make the flight. Ah well, it gives me an excuse to visit New York next spring, I suppose. And by the time I go to next year’s WFC, in Calgary, ‘Dark Raine’ will be on the shelves.

Writer, publisher, editor, critic and man-about-genre John Pelan has just delivered a 1,000 word introduction to my forthcoming collection ‘Passport to Purgatory’. And it’s wonderful. Many thanks, John!

The paperback collection of four of my novellas — ‘No-Man and Other Tales’ — is going to be launched by Pendragon Press at the BFS Xmas Open. I’ll be there (obviously) as will editor Chris Teague and numerous other luminaries from the dark fantasy world. See British Fantasy Society on my Links page for details.

Not much to report, I’m afraid. When I’m working on a novel, as I am at the moment, then everything else sort of goes to the wall. I’m not bothering much with short stories at the moment, in other words, though I still have a good handful due out during the next few months, in Black Static, Weird Tales, Scheherazade, and a couple of good anthologies.