I haven’t been around the old blog much lately. It was my goal to finish Tombstone Blues and get it off to my first readers before Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving, for my American friends). That didn’t quite happen, but it was close enough for government work as the saying goes. In any case, Book Two of the Thunder Road Trilogy is as done as I can make it without feedback, and it needed to go away for a while before I started dicking around (I believe this is the official term) with it just for the sake of dicking around with it.

If you can’t wait until next fall to read Tombstone Blues (and honestly, too bad, because you’ve got to) I did do this handy-dandy self interview on the book for travelling blog: The Next Big Thing. If you want to know more, it will require bourbon.

Turnstone Press is at Booth 13 (Lucky!) at the Scattered Seeds Craft Sale, and I’ll be signing copies of Thunder Road there today (October 19th, 2012), from 3-5 PM. I’ll be bringing some temporary tattoos if that helps to sweeten the pot.

I’ll also be doing a signing at Chapters Polo Park with my fellow fantasy writing rogue, Karen Dudley, Saturday, October 20th, 2012, from 12-2 PM. Again, there will be tattoos.

Thunder Road is back on the local bestseller list, at number 3! This list will be appearing in the Winnipeg Free Press Books section on Saturday.

Derek Newman-Stille interviewed me recently about Thunder Road, and has put a teaser from that interview up on his Speculating Canada blog. The whole interview will go live on Monday, October 22nd, 2012. Derek asked me some very interesting questions, so I hope you’ll like the final result.

A while back, I received my first invitation to submit a short story for an anthology. That story, “A Taste of the Other Side”, has now been accepted into Jennifer Brozek’s forthcoming anthology from Graveside Tales, The Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls. I’m pretty excited about this. Gears and Growls mashes up lycanthropes and steampunk. Who wouldn’t want to read about steampunk werewolves? Now that I’m officially a steampunk author, I guess I’d better start working on my costuming…