This. Not to Mention That.

The first weekend of May I’ll be in Jacksonville, Fla., where I’m a guest at the Sci-Fi Weekend being held at the Museum of Science and History.  Looking at the schedule, I see they’re charging folks $10 to come to my programming event.  Guess I’ll find out who my real fans are.

They haven’t thrown an SF convention before, which kind of shows, but it’ll be fun anyway, because it’ll be full of the sort of people I like to hang out with.  And I’ll be available all weekend to meet anyone who doesn’t want to pay the extra ten bucks.

Elsewhere in the news, I’ve signed a deal with Baen Books to make my self-published ebooks available on their site.  This is potentially a brand-new audience for me, so Yay.  The books will be showing up fairly soon, so I’ll let y’all know when it happens.

And of course I’m always asked when I’ll have something new appear, and I can rarely answer, because though I’m writing and selling all the time, it’s not like they tell me when things are going to appear.  But now I can report that I’ve sold a story to Dead Man’s Hand, a Weird West anthology edited by John Joseph Adams.

Which will be out in May 2014.   So there’s one definite date for you.

I’ve never written a Weird Western before, and probably never will again, but I will report that the story was immense fun, and that I’ve been reading it here and there and people tend to laugh when I do it.  With me, I trust, not at me.

The story is called “The Golden Age,” and features the superheroes of the California Gold Rush.  Ky-yeee!