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Honored to have “Raphael,” my first published horror story, included in Paul Tremblay’s list of five horror stories:

And, if you maybe like his selections, then you might just also like his collection Growing Things, out tomorrow / July 2nd:

So, so, so cool:

Never thought I’d have the chance to slip into these pages with some fiction, since Fango was dead. But then it came back. And now it’s having it’s 40th Anniversary. And I’ve got a story, “Night Tag,” in THAT issue, out as of . . . either now, or July 1st. Either way, they’re already showing up:

Can finally-finally say it without promising whoever I’m telling it to to secrecy, or to somehow post-date this info: sold two horror novels to Joe Monti at Saga! This is the outfit that did Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning. This is the imprint of Simon & Schuster that just moved to the Gallery Publishing Group, which used to be Pocket. This is the editor that, over the past month or so, pushed me to make what WAS Elk Head Woman, a slasher, into the new and im…

Along with an interview about the story:

Two words I don’t usually put together, true. More used to seeing my name plus “Come to the office” or “All you can eat” or, with impolitely unsubdued laughter, “Security deposit?” Nevertheless, this is a real live thing:

Interview in there, updates, how-to, who-to, where-to, all kinds of stuff. Very cool. Who’d have ever thought, right?
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Maybe . . . #1? I’d guess so. Or maybe it’ll be one summerlong interview. Definitely good for that. Or, for more questions like this:

and the world. I got a bit in here:

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I answer a couple questions in here, about getting into anthologies. Or, maybe I answer one question for two questions’ worth? Something like that:

• http://horror.org/private/newsletter/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-March.pdf
• (just search my name, or, better: read it top to bottom, find me in the midst)

One in-hand, one soon to be:

• the Guran (Mapping the Interior): https://www.amazon.com/Years-Best-Dark-Fantasy-Horror-ebook/dp/B07HGBQ33K/
• the Boop (“Stands Twice and the Magpie Man”): https://www.amazon.com/Straight-Outta-Deadwood-David-Boop/dp/148148432X

Too, I keep all these covers, most with links, over on the Anthos page.

And, case you maybe missed them, the two just before this, which is the same thing: one in-(my)hand, one on the way:…