The headline is: my wife and co-editor Heather Shaw and I are hoping to revive our ‘zine Flytrap, this time paying professional rates, and are running a Kickstarter to raise money.
We’re 41% funded with 24 days to go, so signs are promising, but we’d really love help spreading the word — and, of course, if you’d like to give, we’d appreciate it (and you get magazines! and other goodies). We loved doing the ‘zine, and published a lot of current and rising stars in our previous incarnation, so please help us do it again, and do it right.
Other things: my gonzo SF cross-dimensional story “The Retgun” sold to Unidentified Funny Objects 2. It was exactly the kind of sale I love: I submitted the story Sunday afternoon; it was accepted 50 minutes later; I signed and returned the contract by e-mail that evening; and got payment within minutes after that. (If we manage to revive Flytrap, I hope to pay on acceptance in the same way. I love markets that do that.)
I’ve had a couple of foreign sales finalized, which is always a treat. Feder & Schwert will be publishing a German edition of The Constantine Affliction at some point, and a Spanish language collection of my stories is coming from Fata Libelli. My slow and idiosyncratic plot for world domination continues.
Sold a couple of reprints to the good people at Podcastle, too — they’ll be doing audio versions of my stories “Right Turns” and “Ill Met in Ulthar.”
Otherwise, life is pretty great, thanks. I mean, the IRS sent a letter saying we owe them many thousands of dollars,which is a trifle stressful (since we don’t even have many hundreds of dollars to spare at the moment), but we’re pretty sure we can straighten that out. (The revenuers seem to have misplaced a very large check, but our bank assures us the feds cashed it, so with luck we can explain that easily and they won’t send agents to snatch our paychecks from our hands and confiscate our shoes.)
