Burn, Baby, Burn

The Batman: Inferno cover, at last.





The book itself is due out on Halloween, which seems timely given the various costumes. If anyone out there is a fan of both Batman and Blaise Cendrars, this book will be particularly chock-full of goodies; also featured are the Joker, Arkham Asylum, and a new villain whose name I am loath to disclose.

Buzz

As you might have seen by now over at John Klima's EV Zine Blog, I'm going to have a story in the Klima-edited anthology Logorrhea, coming from Bantam in May or June of 2007. The list of contributors is pretty good company:

Daniel Abraham
Paolo Bacigalupi
Jay Caselberg
Clare Dudman
Hal Duncan
Theodora Goss
Liz Hand
Alex Irvine
Jay Lake
Kelly Link
Michael Moorcock
Tim Pratt
David Prill
Michelle Richmond
Lucius Shepard
Anna Tambour
Jeff VanderMeer
Leslie What
Liz Williams
Neil Williamson
Marly Youmans

Look for it next year in time for the Bee itself...

More on Riley

Over at the Green Man Review, The Life of Riley is characterized as " elliptical, graphic, edgy but not at all flashy, topical, sharp and very, very sophisticated." Read the rest...

Three Weeks Later...

I stumble back to this blog with not much to report but a disturbing desire to, well, blog. Went to Europe for the first time over spring break, which is vaguely writing-related because while there I met Luc Carissimo, who has just finished translating A Scattering of Jades into French. The translation is due out in the fall. There are already Spanish and Czech editions, and there's supposed to be a Polish one soon.

Bats and Fish

I just finished a new story, "Clownfish," that will be the original in my upcoming Night Shade collection, Pictures from an Expedition.

Also, I've seen the cover art for BATMAN: INFERNO, and it looks great. I'll post it here as soon as I can.

Coming soon: news from the comics front...oh, and there's a well-thought-out and incisive review of The Narrows in the current Realms of Fantasy, by Paul Witcover (who has written some interesting stuff himself). Check it out.

Two-Fisted Cover

Here's the cover of Retro Pulp Tales:


I dig it.

Giant Land of Pulp

Now that Jeff Ford's "Giant Land" is getting the recognition it so richly deserves, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the second issue of Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives contains--in addition to "Giant Land"--fine fiction from Scott Edelman, Lori Selke, Gavin J. Grant, James L. Cambias, Peter Hagelslag, Davin Ireland, Jetse de Vries, Jay Lake, Paul Finch, and Tim Pratt.

There aren't a million left, so get 'em while you can.

A Couple More Upcoming Stories

"This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine," in Pete Crowther's anthology Forbidden Planets, due out from DAW this summer.

"Wizard's Six," forthcoming in F&SF.

A Gaggle of Reviews

Some of the more recent reviews of The Narrows, all in one place for your delectation:

Emerald City
Relocated Fictions
Bookgasm's 8 Great Sci-Fi Books of 2005
Amazon's Top 10 SF/Fantasy Books of 2005
Green Man Review
The Capital Times
Bangor Daily News
Cleveland Plain Dealer

2006 So Far, and Looking Ahead

Two stories already out in the world: "Shambhala," in the March F&SF and "Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven" in the Lou Anders-edited anthology FutureShocks.

This summer, Night Shade Books will publish a collection of my short stories, called Pictures from an Expedition. There will be a new story in the book, as well as a dozen reprints from the past two years or so. Also I'll have a story, "New Game in Town," in the Joe Lansdale-edited anthology Retro Pulp Stories, from Subterranean.

Looking a little farther ahead, I just finished revisions on Batman: Inferno, a novel about Batman's early career. Look for it in December from Del Rey.

And before that, the Francophones among you can check out the French edition of A Scattering of Jades, currently scheduled for October from Fleuve Noir.