UPDATE: The article was viewed a couple of thousand times in the two days since it’s been up, so I guess there’s some interest in the subject.

Book Madam has just posted an article about self-publishing on Kindle and the future of the publishing industry. Please is one of the featured books. It’s getting a lot of hits, so go check it out.

Back when The Warhol Gang first came out, I gave away copies of a new story, “We continue to pray for something to end our prayers,” to people who reviewed the book favourably. It was my way of saying thank you for taking the time to engage with the book. Now This magazine has been kind enough to publish the story, after a bit of sharp editing by Stuart Ross. And it has fresh art! Check it out here.

With a short story!

I’ve written a couple of supernatural western stories — it’s a genre fetish of mine — and I’ve been itching to write another one. It must be some sort of infection. Anyway, the idea came to me yesterday morning — it’s High Plains Drifter meets… well, I’m not going to tell you quite yet.

I couldn’t put off writing it. I knew I’d be able to jump back into The Apocalypse Corpse with no problem, but I worried if I left this new idea too long I’d forget about it, or work it out too much in my mind and get bored with it. So I figured I’d put the novel aside for a few days and write the story. But I managed to write the whole thing in one feverish sitting, accompanied with much maniacal cackling — that was my son playing downstairs. I write in silence. Seven thousand words later, I had a decent first draft at midnight.

I’ll let it sit for a while, because I always let stories settle for a bit before I return to them. In the meantime, I went back into The Apocalypse Corpse today and got in another seven pages. I don’t think the novel even knows I cheated on it.

Now what the hell am I going to do with a supernatural western…?