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LO THESE MANY YEARS

I’ve started posting old fiction of mine on my Patreon. I’ve already been posting works in progress—novel chapters, verse, and the like, and I had been kicking around the idea of putting up this old trunk novel I had from the first time I tried to sell a book. I will probably still do that, but I’ve got an out-of-print short story collection that I love, and even some of my stories that are hosted online have disappeared without my realizing it. That happens in a career as long as mine….

Alex JenningsANovember 25, 2024short fiction, SFF, Dark Fantasy, Time, Aging, memory, publishing, milestoneComment

GETTING CLOSER: A cover and a soundtrack for THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES

Some brief thoughts on the cover launch for my novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Red Hook, June, 2022)

Alex JenningsAOctober 7, 2021books, publishing, novel, afrofatasy, urban fantasy, summer reading, music, soundtrack, fiction Comments

HEYYYYYYYY!

“The perceived transgression that created him was against white sexual purity,” I said, “so in order for the character to work, Candyman has to be sexually magnetic. I love Tony Todd, and I hope he shows up somehow, but he’s done his time playing the monster.”