Whip it good

Another 1400 words on the new short story this morning, and I’ve mapped out most of the rest of the plot, so I’m hoping to be very close to the end after tomorrow morning’s session. Then it will be time to whip this cumbersome beastie into submission. I figure I have ten days—by the end of the weekend after next I want to get it out the door to NY. I received the manuscript-in-progress for a collaborative effort I’m working on, so I want to get at that one before too long, too. Before I leave for Japan in a little more than three weeks, at least.

I found another nice review of Apex #9 from HorrorScope. “Sufficiently Advanced by Bev Vincent is a riotous and simple story with prose as blunt and to the point as the big guy we all know Bev has written books about. After crash landing on an unknown planet—the only one to escape his ship The Odyssey—Henry comes into contact with what appears to be a primitive race. Appears. The flip-flopping that comes next is nasty and hilarious. A short, sharp piece.”

My first work to be translated into French, an essay called “Stephen King’s Dark Tower,” appears in Le livre des livres de Stephen King. Apparently contributor copies were sent out a few months ago, but my copy hasn’t shown up yet. Other contributors include F. Paul Wilson, Mort Castle, Stephen Jones, Tim Lebbon, Ed Bryant, Michael R. Collings, Steve Tem, Kim Newman, Poppy Z. Brite and Jack Ketchum.

I finished Kellerman’s Obsession last night. Review forthcoming on Onyx Reviews, but in brief it wasn’t one of my favorites. I started Haruki Murakami’s After Dark. Two chapters in and intrigued.