I found a deleted scene from City of Saints & Madmen’s “Dradin, In Love” while cleaning out my electronic file folders…it’s a bit bathotic, to say the least.

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Although in my previous post I said it was unlikely I’d ever write anything YA, children’s fiction is another story. Thus, I share with you a few pages of my long-lost children’s book, Henry and the Frog, originally written for Erin. (I also have a series idea.) If I knew anything about the children’s fiction market, I might actually try to get it published, but, alas, I’m clueless on that subject. One thing’s for sure: my tarded illos would need to be replaced by real art…

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Here’s a short excerpt of my story in the forthcoming Black Clock political issue…

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I’ve had a very productive week thus far, with “The Quickening” appearing out of nowhere fully formed and now nearing the completion of a good working draft of “The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod (some frags of hook below, which may change all unrecognizable before the end…).

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Rough draft of the beginning of a rather odd story called “The Quickening” set in Central Florida in the 1950s in an orange grove/plantation…

Jeff

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UPDATE: See below for the “finished draft” too…This is for the Ecstatic Engines steampunk antho for Solaris, but I’m philosophical about its chances. For one thing, it’s hot off the grill. For another, it’s basically an anti-steampunk story, so it might not fit. Either way, I’m excited to have a new story done. Either the steampunk antho will take it, or someone else will. Thanks to Ann, Cat Rambo, and Matt Staggs for taking a look at it this morning.

So now I’m in second-third revision stages on what was “The Thing from the Sea” and then “Entrapment,” excerpted on this blog earlier. Only it’s called “Fixing Hanover” at this point, and it’s in present tense, because this better supports the story as a whole, including the ending.

Here’re the differences between the first and second draft versions of the beginning. Some aspects of second draft might be flensed back out in third draft. We’ll see.

Jeff

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In picture form! Although the story has changed, this is the crappy graphic I drew to orient myself to begin with. I will not be inflicting it on Dying Earth editors Dozois and Martin…

Excerpt (rough draft) after the break…

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I just scribbled on and sent back the signing sheets, so it must be real! The Situation, coming soon from PS Publishing (March-April). Available for pre-order in two hardcover editions:

Slipcased 200-copy signed limited limited with dustjacket

500-copy signed limited with art on the boards

Here’s some blurbage and an excerpt:

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The very cool new London-based mag Polluto is out the end of this month, including work from Rhys Hughes, Michael Moorcock, and myself. Above find the art for my story, “Finding Sonoria.” I think this is a classy new effort and well worth your attention. Below the break find a Sonoria excerpt.

Jeff

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Every sense heightened, Nikolai moved like a deadly wraith, carrying three guns and with knives in sheaths all over his body. He drifted like a cloud atop a mixture of painkillers and viral hallucinations, his head full of nails and cotton candy. That’s the only way he could have described it to someone, the disconnect between reality and what he saw off and on, as if watching two movies at once and being in both at the same time.

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