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So I've managed to clear a few big things from my schedule in the past few weeks, and being pathologically incapable of coping with leisure time, I decided to add something back onto the schedule immediately. This:

How awesome is this cover? I know I'm biased, but I think it's the best Static Movement cover to date. So yes! I'm editing an anthology of Zombie Versus... stories for Static Movement. Guidelines are here and I'm open to submissions now. This one is wide open - I'll consider any genre and any reasonable length as long as there's some hardcore zombie smackdown involved. Anyone who writes me a zombie versus shark story gets a prize, okay?

So send me some zombie goodness! Do it now.

Current Mood: chipper

At Pill Hill Press. It's not up on Amazon yet by the looks of it, but it should be in the next few days. So huzzahs!

And here's the table of contents - it's a really varied collection, if I do say so myself. Lots of interesting takes on the witchcraft theme.

The Witch of Snowdonia - Richard I Prescott
Mercy Hathaway is a Witch - Ken Goldman
The Demon and the Pentagram Witch - Yolanda Sfetsos
The Black Room - Jason D Brawn
A Grand Race - Brianna Stoddard
Mist and Shadows - Harriet Holmes
The Lyin' Witch and the Wardrobe Malfunction - John H Dromey
Fourteen Ounces of Vinegar - Mark Anthony Crittenden
Second Hand Faith - Emma Kathryn
Ragnar Firebringer - Robert William Shmigelsky
When the Day Ends - Gary McKenzie
The Story Wife - Sarah Diemer
the Purifying Process - Krista Krueger
So Mote It Be - Livia Finucci
The Cupcake Witch - Sharon Galligar Chance
The Devil and the Details - Edward McKeown
Dark Temptations - Danielle Rose
Saving Serenity - Brianna Stoddard

Current Mood: busy

I keep telling myself I'm going to stop writing stuff for Static Movement so I can focus on bigger projects, but then I have an idea that's perfect for their anthologies, and away I go. Just heard that In From The Cold has been accepted into their Winter Chills anthology, so yay! It's about a man who was a wolf, or a wolf who is a man, depending how you want to look at it.

Current Mood: chipper

By my calculations, Serve in Heaven, Reign in Hell is at 61k. I'm not going to put a deadline on it, but I want people to know that we're at the minimum word count needed for publication. Three people have told me they're working on or about to submit stories, and there's definitely still room for them - I'm shooting for 70k +. So if you're still planning to submit something, let me know!

My other anthology, Wicked Witchery, is at 47k, so plenty of room left there.

Once one (presumably Serve in Heaven...) is full, I'd love to get another one on the go. I'm really enjoying the editing gig; it's been nice to do something writing-related but different, and I've seen a couple of stories that make me think the writers have very bright futures ahead, and it's nice to think I might have given them their first publication credit.

I've got two ideas I'm pretty keen on: Zombies Versus... which would be pretty much what it said on the tin: stories of zombies fighting things! Other zombies, sharks, werewolves, hobos, whatever. I think that could be a lot of fun. The other idea is a YA school-based horror anthology (because I'm currently obsessing over Point Horror's Nightmare Hall series and wishing I hadn't donated them all to charity ten years ago). Basically, as long as time allows and people have ideas, I'd love to keep this up.

Current Mood: busy

So despite this week ... not being all it could be, what with fractured metacarpals and various other things, I'm actually feeling quite chipper tonight. Partly because Kyle is cooking something spectacular involving feta cheese and chorizo and olives, but also because I had two short story acceptances this week.

Happy Ending is going to be in Beyond the Grave. I'm probably more excited about this than is really warranted because it's an Ash story, and he's my favourite. My favourite everything. He's badass and a necromancer and drinks too much and runs a gothy night club and is just basically awesome, and this is the story of why he digs up his father's grave.

Pumpkin Soup will be in Fall Shudders. I wrote this yesterday when I was feeling particularly jaded, and it's actually pretty sad, but really beautiful, if I do say so myself. I don't often make such claims about my own writing, but I do really like this piece, so that's good too.

Also good is that WILD (now with caps!) is fully-formatted and ready to change the world of paranormal-urban-fantasy-YA-with-romantic-elements-and-drugs. Huzzahs! I am going to do a line-edit over the weekend in case I missed anything vital or obvious, but I have high hopes it will be ready to upload next week. OMG. Hold me, you guys. I'm scared.

Luckily, I have Mansions of Madness to distract me. I had no idea there were so many HP Lovecraft-inspired board games out there, but there are definitely three in my house right now, which makes me a happy Nome. Kyle and I are going to attempt to play it after dinner. If you don't hear from me again, I went mad and was incarcerated in an insane asylum, okay?

Current Mood: chipper

So a few years ago I wrote a short story called Painless, which was published in Midnight Times ezine, which is now defunct, I think. It's about a professional thief who can't feel pain as a result of a childhood incident. I really loved the character, Theo Kane, and the world I touched on, and for years I thought about making it into a novel. Never got round to it though.

Then recently I submitted Painless to a Static Movement anthology, Weird City, which should be available soon (and apparently Caitlin Kittredge is going to be reviewing it, which makes me a bit giddy and fangirly). And there's going to be a Weird City 2, so it seems clear to me that I should write a sequel to Painless. I left Theo's story pretty unfinished, and since I don't think a novel will ever materialise, I've decided on a different tactic. I'm going to write a bunch of short stories set in Theo's world, about her and her cohorts, and then publish them as a collection.

I'm not planning to do them all at once; Halflife and Blood and Bones are still my priorities, but obviously short stories aren't as time-consuming as novels or novellas, so I see no reason why I can't aim to have a good collection out later in the year. They should make for nice side projects. Huzzahs!

Current Mood: scheming

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