Thank you to everyone who purchased “Pickman’s Exhibition” or boosted the signal on it. I greatly appreciate it.

I’m going to be releasing more fiction over the next few weeks and into 2022. I participated in NaNoWriMo this year. I was behind most of the month until the last few days. I finished with a final word count of 50,006. Instead of a novel, I decided to try to write as much short fiction from scratch as I could. By that I mean everything had to be started during NaNoWriMo. Nothing I had worked on previously. It all had to be fresh. That was the goal I set for myself. I had hoped to have ten pieces of short fiction completed by the end of November. I finished with nine completed stories and six in various states of completion, ranging from a few pages to Oh-Lord-this-isn’t-short-fiction-it’s-a-longer-work.

I’m calling that a  win. The genre varied somewhat, although not as much as last year. That means I didn’t write any detective or crime fiction. I did write a few Christmas ghost stories, though. I’ll be trying to put them up over the next few weeks. I’m still figuring out what I’m doing with self-publishing, so I’m not making any promises about how many I’ll actually get up.

In the meantime, John Bullard is working on some M. R. James posts. The first will go live tomorrow.

And I haven’t forgotten I still need to do a post for Leigh Brackett.