Ever since Sheree invited me to do this work during a breakfast phone call on our final day at Under the Volcano, the development has felt surreal and unexpected. Now that my first column is in, at a whopping 1,500 words, I still feel that way. I still don’t consider myself particularly qualified to give writing or career advice but looking around at the changed circumstances of my life, I can’t help thinking how many of the good things happening for me are the result of a baseline refusal to stop writing and submitting.
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This week, Redhook, the sibling imprint to Orbit Books announced my novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves for winter of 2022. I’ve been working toward publishing this novel for the better part of ten years now. It’s part of a three-book deal with the second and third titles TBD. Those other books might be related to Ballad, but then again, they might not.
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