New Sales News


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So please check back often.

Although every author hopes that everything he/she writes will sell, that is not the reality for most of us.  Perhaps eventually every story sells, but stories don't necessarily sell to the first or even tenth market tried.  The competition is fierce and so every sale should be celebrated.

Between celebrations, writers don't just stand by waiting . . . they write.  But me hunched over a computer isn't much of a picture.

For publisher information on the sales listed below, check out the publications page under the appropriate genre.

Please Watch For These Titles
In Humor:
"The Goth Girl Next Door" is the story of a vampire who's just trying to make a living as a coffin model when a monster hunter moves in next door.  Find it in Esther Friesner's upcoming anthology "Fangs for the Mammories" to be published by Baen Books in 2010.

Read "I Married an Alien" in the anthology "Things Aren't What They Seem" to be published by From the Asylum Books, hopefully soon. The story was inspired by the events of 1998 in Garland, Texas involving  the Taiwanese, Chen Tao cult.

In Horror:
"In Extremis Veritas" just sold to an upcoming anthology to be called "Through the Eyes of the Undead." My story is set in a time when anyone could find they possess the right gene to reanimate after death and become a zombie. In my tale, the zombie protagonist is a coroner who ends up trying to help a newly risen zombie (a cop) solve his own murder case.

And in Fantasy:
"The Silver Branch" will appear in The Phantom Queen Awakes, an anthology of stories set in ancient Ireland, dealing with the Tri-Part goddess known as The Morrigan, aka the Phantom Queen.  My story deals with a clan leader who makes a deal with the Morrigan to rid his people of their enemies. Expect this anthology in February 2010 from Morrigan Books.

"The Journey of White Sorrow" probably won't be in print until late 2010 or 2011.  I sold it to Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel, an anthology from Fantasist Enterprises that'll contain original Oriental tales of fantasy.  My story borrows from Japanese and Chinese myth and folklore, as the setting is 1177, near the end of the Heian era.  It combines Shinto magic with Buddhism.  The heroine, who must stop demons from getting out of the volcano, is a court poetess and so much more.