I am enjoying a bit of a hot streak now that the first draft of Murder in the Cabaret Sauvignon is done.  (There were times when I thought I would never get the damn thing done.  And I don't even want to think about the editing job that lies ahead of me... not when I've got a dissertation to write.)  I've now cranked out three short stories, the ( Read more... )

Now it can be told: my new short story "Blackwork and Flash" will be published/performed by Liars' League HK.  I didn't mention finishing this one because I wanted to keep the judging process anonymous.  I'm actually one of the writing judges for LLHK, which means I'm one of the people who pick out which stories are read/performed each month.  We ( Read more... )

I just finished a new one, "A Garden Fed by Lightning."  It'll be the title story for Collection 3.  Now you may go back to whatever you were doing.


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Being a bit superstitious (you can take the boy out of the South...), I'm always reluctant to comment on future publications until I'm quite certain they're going to happen.  However, I'm also in my 40s now, and less inclined to be dogmatic about my superstitions.  So here we go: I'm announcing what are likely to be my next six books.

1. Never ( Read more... )

A few updates of interest to one or two people, perhaps:

1. I've sold "Fetch" to the anthology Under Alien Skies, edited by Justin Nicholes and forthcoming from Another Sky Press in the US.

2. Xu Xi and I are co-editing an anthology of contemporary Hong Kong fiction.  This is part of a series of World Englishes anthologies that focus on writing from ( Read more... )

I just finished the new one (which I think one other person knew I was writing), and what a relief!  I've been saying for years that I start to worry if I'm not working on one.  Several months went by after I wrapped up the last one, which I think was "Underground" -- in any event, it's been a marathon today and now I'm done.  The new one's a bit ( Read more... )

I've been too busy to update this, although I've been meaning to.  Here are a few highlights:

1. Reviews for The Infernal Republic are tapering off.  Fortunately, they've been excellent overall, although there was one I wasn't too happy about.  As I've read them, one concern has emerged: they mostly seem to focus on how twisted the stories are and ( Read more... )

Here's a link to the page for Il look del diavolo, the Kindle-only e-chapbook comprising the three stories translated into Italian and published by the now-defunct journal Buran.  This is actually a Signal 8 Press title: basically, I wanted it to have a proper ISBN, and it made more sense than using the BookCyclone imprint.  With luck, one or two ( Read more... )

Lambda Literary has published a gratuitously nasty and quite badly written review of Art from Art, the anthology that contains my short story "Flesh, Blood, and Some of the Parts (Le sang du monde)."  Go here for the review and see below for my response:

In this review, Krach has three main arguments against the book: that it fails to achieve unity ( Read more... )

Two bits of good news, where short stories are concerned:

1. Art from Art, the anthology (edited by Steve Soucy), has gotten its first -- and quite favorable -- review.  Even better, my story "Flesh, Blood, and Some of the Parts (Le sang du monde)" is one of the stories singled out for attention.  I can't provide a direct link to the review; if you ( Read more... )