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Dear Live Journal,
How I have missed you! I can't believe I have not posted since Father's Day, but I have been very busy. Also, strange bouts of desperately-needing-to-sleep have been disrupting my schedule. I've been having weird River-Phoenix-in-My-Own-Private-Idaho moments off an on during recent evenings.
Other than the new issue of M-Brane SF coming out the other day, and the release of the Aether Age trailer, my big news this week is that my new short story "The Cairn" will appear in Library of the Living Dead Press' antho Zombiality: A Queer Bent on the Undead. I am very excited about this for a number of reasons: 1) it's a fresh new story and is already going out there; 2) I have been plagued by irrational fear of showing my fiction to editors and didn't do so for a number of years; this year, I have risked it twice and been accepted twice, so that helps my attitude a lot; 3) This particular book was announced a while back and then apparently cancelled for a while, much to many people's disappointment. But then it got back on the calendar, and when it did, I became fairly determined to write something for it; and 4) While I have written and published some horror before, this is my first real attempt to work in the zombie sub-genre, and it was fun.
While I say it's a fresh new story, I have to qualify that by saying that it contains pieces of characters and situations that I mined from my 2009 NaNoWriMo novel Days of the Dust and Diane Rehm Show. I lifted out of that story its two main characters, more or less intact, and then put them in a much more fucked-up situation than what they faced in their previous incarnation. It's the "what if" thing that I guess gets anyone who ever writes anything going. In the older story with these guys, there is a moment early on where the whole thing could have gone down a very different path than it did (especially true during the NaNoWriMo rushed totally-unplanned writing that I was doing). So when I was wondering what I could come up with for a zombie story involving gay characters, I remembered that and decided to take one of those other possible forks in the road.
How I have missed you! I can't believe I have not posted since Father's Day, but I have been very busy. Also, strange bouts of desperately-needing-to-sleep have been disrupting my schedule. I've been having weird River-Phoenix-in-My-Own-Private-Idaho moments off an on during recent evenings.
Other than the new issue of M-Brane SF coming out the other day, and the release of the Aether Age trailer, my big news this week is that my new short story "The Cairn" will appear in Library of the Living Dead Press' antho Zombiality: A Queer Bent on the Undead. I am very excited about this for a number of reasons: 1) it's a fresh new story and is already going out there; 2) I have been plagued by irrational fear of showing my fiction to editors and didn't do so for a number of years; this year, I have risked it twice and been accepted twice, so that helps my attitude a lot; 3) This particular book was announced a while back and then apparently cancelled for a while, much to many people's disappointment. But then it got back on the calendar, and when it did, I became fairly determined to write something for it; and 4) While I have written and published some horror before, this is my first real attempt to work in the zombie sub-genre, and it was fun.
While I say it's a fresh new story, I have to qualify that by saying that it contains pieces of characters and situations that I mined from my 2009 NaNoWriMo novel Days of the Dust and Diane Rehm Show. I lifted out of that story its two main characters, more or less intact, and then put them in a much more fucked-up situation than what they faced in their previous incarnation. It's the "what if" thing that I guess gets anyone who ever writes anything going. In the older story with these guys, there is a moment early on where the whole thing could have gone down a very different path than it did (especially true during the NaNoWriMo rushed totally-unplanned writing that I was doing). So when I was wondering what I could come up with for a zombie story involving gay characters, I remembered that and decided to take one of those other possible forks in the road.
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