No better way to start the day than with a short story acceptance letter! My tale “Centralia is Still Burning” will appear in Specters in Coal Dust, edited by Michael Knost. I asked Michael at World Horror this year if he had had any submissions featuring the town of Centralia. He hadn’t, but he warned me the book was filling up fast. I started the story a week after I got back from Brighton and finished it about a week later. I was very pleased with the way it turned out. The other authors in this anthology are: Gary A. Braunbeck, Christopher Golden, Tom Piccirilli, Steve Rasnic Tem, Elizabeth Massie, Lee Thomas, Ronald Kelly, William Meikle, Nate Southard, Joshua Reynolds, Barbara Jo Fleming, Brian J. Hatcher and Michael Bracken.To be published this fall. I imagine pre-orders will be accepted soon. Stay tuned!
It appears that the second printing of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion is now available from Barnes and Noble online. For the first time since December 2009, you can now order the book from their website. Though the book has been available in stores, it has not been available to anyone outside the U.S. This new printing means that anyone can order it, no matter where in the world you’re located. The best news of all: B&N’s international shipping rates are very, very reasonable. Much less than it would cost me to ship a copy abroad, that’s for sure.
Working on my Storytellers Unplugged essay today. Should have the first draft of about 1000 words finished by the time I call it quits today. It goes live on Tuesday.
