Excuse the blatant A3 reference. Since finishing Three Parts Dead and starting the query process, I’ve felt a bit disconnected from the world. Fortunately, I’ve taken an old friend’s advice and decided to view the space between novels as a great opportunity for short story writing.

I just finished a 16,000 word not-so-short that I’ll be desperately cutting and polishing over the next couple weeks for Writers of the Future, one of the few markets for such beefy compositions. It’s got romance, dimensional travel, biplane duels with insect dragons, and a general overtone of bitterness and regret — everything you want this holiday season!

This story started off as a dream, but is also an elaboration on a comic project I’m really excited to be working on with Mel, Captain Brushpen over on Blogspot. She does awesome work and has two great illustrations of my work on her site right now, both from the first chapter of Three Parts Dead:

Ms. Kevarian was driving
Tara is Skeptical

Rock on.