I've been quiet because I've been working on Colonial Gothic: Popham. That is sort of how it is when I write. Not much more to report.

I also have become the calendar coordinator of the HWA. With the help of Angel McCoy, webmistress of awesome, we now have a working HWA calendar of events.

Finally, we have snow. Beautiful, cold, wet snow.

As promised on twitter, here is the cover art to BEAUTY HAS HER WAY (pre-order clicky link). The artist, fast becoming one of my favorite cover artists, is Alina Pete of Weregeek (a webcomic about gamer geeks you all should be reading).



This cover is a direct homage to the Luis Royo cover of Heavy Metal 140--one of my favorite Royo covers ever. Alina did a great job of capturing what I wanted in this cover.

With this cover art and the anthology author list, I couldn't be happier

amandapillar, my co-editor on the award winning Grants Pass anthology finally received the statue and plaque for the Australian Shadows Award. They are really pretty. I am letting Amanda keep the statue but I'm hoping to pry the plaque out of her hands in September when we meet for the first time face-to-face at AussieCon4. The statue is going to be one heck of a collector's item as this the last year the AU Shadows Awards is doing statues but, call me vain, I want the thing with my name on it.



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Look! My name! It's real!


Isn't she pretty?

This is the most amazing "comic book treatment" of Grants Pass. It really is.



Click here to learn more about it and the artist behind this most awesome homage to my anthology.