First up, GUD Magazine is teasing people with the cover art I did for them. It's been a very long time since I'd done a cover for anyone, and I had a blast doing this one. There were no guarantees they'd buy what I did, but the premise of the cover was just too cool to pass up trying, and then they loved it. They're good folks. Go check them out!

I've just finished chapter 4 on my novel. I'd gotten a bit bogged down in research on drug culture, since I want my character to have just exactly the right kind of OD experience, but I've sorted that out now. (If anyone knows how much any street drugs cost in Kansas City circa 1985, please speak up!)

With chapter 4 done, I'm pausing the novel long enough to dig through my obscene backlog of unpolished fiction. It's damn well time to get stuff out there. I've got six nine stories that I could be circulating that I'm not because I haven't revised them.

Once that's done I'm strongly considering a piece for Haunted Legends. To which I'd also just like to say a huge thanks to both ellen_datlow and nihilistic_kid for having an open submission period.

So the novel thing is barreling down the track with no regard to safety or braking.

It's quite clear that I've got a trilogy about hackers. So far though there are only two books. Categorically not a trilogy. So I've been periodically poking the idea to try and get a third novel. As it stands I've got an 8-bit Cyberpunk story and a Post-Petropunk story. I've kicked around a lot of options, but only one of them had a cover image to go along with it. I mooted the idea of setting a story in Rhodes during the time of Hero and his automatons (when the main drag of town was supposedly lined with machines doing all manner of things).

Greekpunk, says I. nihilistic_kid can be on the cover! Wearing a studded black-leather toga!

"You get to blog about that one, dear," says kirizal.

However I don't think that's the third book unless nihilistic_kid really, really wants to be on the cover.

Maybe for shits and giggles the third book will be a cyberpunk high fantasy novel.