Hope Halloween found everyone well! I'm delighted to report new Gaunt and Bone stories.
"To the Darkhouse" appears in Tales from the Magician's Skull #8 in the august company of W.J Lewis, James Enge, Sean Crow, Jeremy Pak Nelson, C.L Werner, Daniel J. Ouellette, Alexander James, and Robert Rhodes (and by the way I encourage anyone who loves a mix of great action and beautiful writing to check out Robert Rhodes' story collection Shadow, Light, and Steel.)
"On Magog's Pond" appears in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #367 where it gets to be in the mighty presence of an Angel Azrael story by Peter Darbyshire, "The Angel Azrael and the War Ghosts." The Angel Azrael stories, all of which I believe have appeared in BCS, are what I imagine you'd get if Michael Moorcock's Elric was put in a blender with Stephen King's Gunslinger -- the action is furious, the scenery is bizarre, and the emotions feel true. If that sounds at all up your dusty demon-beset and tumbleweed-haunted alley, check them out!
And in still more Gaunt and Bone news, Black Cat Weekly reprinted the G&B story "A Wizard of the Old School" in their issue #57! It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the August 2007 issue. Many thanks to the SFF editor for Black Cat Weekly, Cynthia Ward, for choosing it. (And speaking of Cynthia Ward, I recently read her very enjoyable steampunk-ish adventure novel The Adventure of the Incognita Countess. This book brings together various characters with links to classic adventure novels -- expect to see nods to Bram Stoker, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells and many more. It's reminiscent of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but with its own distinct style and a nice eye for its early 20th Century setting, namely the doomed voyage of the Titanic. I'm looking forward to reading the sequels.)
Moving on from Gaunt and Bone, I was also over the moon to have a standalone science fantasy story in Clarkesworld #189. "The Odyssey Problem" is an offbeat story for me and somewhat experimental, so I was surprised and thrilled when editor Neil Clarke decided to run it. He also had great suggestions for improving it and clarifying the text.
I also can announce more great news -- Asimov's Science Fiction has just bought my story "The Second Labyrinth!" I'll say more when it's scheduled.
Lastly, I got to contribute to a project that is still under wraps, but I will be excited to share more details when I can.
[Edited to add additional news and reflect that in the title.]
