Yes, it’s been almost a year.  And yes, I continue to be bad at updating this site.  In my defense, though, no one could have known the Glor’thok Invasion would be so time consuming.  My soot-smeared war-spatula tells tales of post-apocalyptic battle:  each jagged nick, a memory of foes vanquished; each black stain, a reminder that I can’t cook an omelette.

In the interests of expedience, I won’t spend this post giving very long descriptions of my accomplishments over the past year.  Instead, I’ll provide a brief list of my publications, punctuated by interesting facts about the Glor’thok Wars.

1.  “Three Ways to Leave Hawaii” was published in Unidentified Funny Objects 7 in September of 2018.  To celebrate my fifth appearance in the UFO anthology series (and my first appearance as a name on the cover!), the Glor’thok used their pigeon-mounted ray-guns to evaporate the entire Columbia River and blame it on Oregon, infuriating Washingtonians along the border.  The Civil War of the Pacific Northwest was short-lived and, truth be told, actually rather friendly.
2. I sold a reprint to Tell-Tale Press’s The Starship Logs, Volume 1: Winter Holidays anthology.  “When Friends Come to Call” originally appeared in Kazka Press’s At Year’s End anthology, which is no longer available; I’m glad readers now have another chance to read it, either for free in their browsers or for a buck on Kindle.  (The Glor’thok prefer the Kindle version, because they like to support new publishers when they’re not busy eroding our natural monuments with air-dropped acid-baths.)
3. “The Great Indoors” has appeared in Flame Tree Publishing’s Haunted House Short Stories anthology.  This marks not only my fourth appearance in one of Flame Tree’s objectively gorgeous Gothic Fantasy volumes, but also my first sale of a straight-up horror story.  (The closest I’d come previously was with “Sweet Dreams, Glycerine,” in Flame Tree’s Science Fiction Short Stories–though that was more like dark SF.)  Oh, and while we’re on the subject of horror stories, does anyone remember when the Glor’thok destroyed huge chunks of our brains with skull-burrowing space-ticks?  Of course you don’t.
4. “No Silver Lining,” my first story to ever appear in a physical book, has been reborn in the (digital) pages of another Tell-Tale Press anthology:  The Spell Books, Volume 2:  Creatures.  As with “When Friends Come to Call,” this one can be found on both the Tell-Tale Press website and in a Kindle e-book.  Alternatively, you could read my story within the muted red darkness of the Glor’thok Slaughterhalls (where they keep all their books), but good luck getting past the guards without an unreasonably large supply of hummus. 

And that’s it for today.  See you all next year, after we’ve been bound in shackles and forced to witness a traditional Glor’thokkian coronation ceremony.  (Don’t forget your towel!)

-Z