There are a lot of things I’m bad at. I can’t roller-skate, I swim like a cinder block, and there are at least three perfectly normal activities I’m not allowed to engage in without fire-department supervision. Of course, there are also a few things I’m good at, but they aren’t worth mentioning because fitting an entire pancake into your mouth is not a marketable skill.
One of the things I’m positively terrible at, though, is keeping this site updated. Which is why there’s a good chance no one knows about any of the following:
- “The Woman With the Long Black Hair” was published in Fantasy & Science Fiction. You can get the issue online or at Barnes & Noble, though the latter will probably only be displaying it for a few more weeks at the most.
- After nearly five years of being stuck in editorial quicksand, “The Horror at Hatchet Point” has finally clawed its way to the surface and been published in the Lovecraftian fairy-tale anthology Twice Upon an Apocalypse.
- I recently sold to Unidentified Funny Objects 6 a story titled “Tyler the Snot Elemental Scours the Newspaper, Searching For Change.” It’s about exactly what you think it’s about.
(Special thanks to UFO editor Alex Shvartsman for helping turn my hideous rough draft into something publishable. Without your guidance, the world would never know what struggles a snot elemental faces in its daily life.)
And that’s it for now. See you all at the next update!
-Z