Watch this space!

I should finally be announcing sooner or later the release of Divine In Essence, my second full-length fiction collection from Whiskey Tit. You might call it a follow-up to I, No Other, my original collection, although it certainly differs in key thematic and stylistic respects, albeit both are unmistakably MINE. I’m not sure exactly when this will be happening, but my guess is Fall/Winter? Honestly, no idea, but I actually went through a proof recently, and there should, I’m told, soon be BOOOOOOKS for me to look at, so IT MUST BE SERIOUS, right?

Concurrent with this release, I also plan to release a second edition of I, No Other, which will fix certain egregious design issues and tighten up the story selection. If you already possess a first edition… well, it’s up to you! Do you want to be a completist? I THINK YOU DO. I will be removing a few minor pieces that only, quite frankly, served as filler and, to my now somewhat more mature literary eye, rather weakened the structural integrity of the whole, so there may be people in the world who also fancy themselves “completists” and wouldn’t wish to see stories removed from a second edition, I get it, but if you already have the first edition, you’re golden, don’t worry about it, here’s a dime, get yourself a little sumpin’, don’t bother me, kid.

Anyway, I’m working on that project as we speak. I just feel myself to have wantonly ignored this website and wanted to pay a visit, kinda pro forma. Look at that Cormac McCarthy post, by the way, wow, I must’ve been in some kind of mood to start blathering about Cormac McCarthy, just shows you how desperate I was for something to put up here. Ha ha!

I sometimes wonder whether I should get myself into a more normal sort of website. I just find all the marketing intimidating whenever I look into it, not to mention the expense. I don’t want anything fancy, I just want exactly what I have, only reliable and safe. It’s always been easier to just let this barebones thing I’ve had for over a decade at this point keep coasting along as it is—it’s easy enough to add a post when I so desire. But the browser tells me this site is “not secure,” meaning they want me to make it https, and I don’t know how to address that unfortunately highly technical issue, and what if I just signed up with some sort of company that handles all those under-the-hood details FOR you? Yeah, what if I did that?… Or maybe I could just buckle down and figure out how to get an SSL certificate and whatever other things it wants?…