What Now?

So, I've been afraid of changes because I've built my life around…

Well, shit. A lot of stuff. I put years of my life into being an author of Bizarro Fiction, which brought me to where and who I am today. I branched out from there, survived the shakeups but have still been there waiting, watching and helping. In the past few years, my career, my personality, my sexuality, the contents of my brain have all been in flux. I lost my shit with the rest of the country, then took steps to get it back.

Now, like the CW's Arrow, I am something else. We're seeing a lot of flux in everything, so I want to welcome my fellow friends and artists with me into a Summer of something else. I'm writing and editing new books, trying out this new platform and getting on more airplanes than I did for the first 30 years of my life. I am helping to resurrect a convention that shaped and guided me. I am in a state of constant excitement and horror.

I have been to Stokercon, the first of three conventions this Summer, had an amazing time and met such luminaries as Nick Cutter and Alma Katsu, hung out with and got fantastic news from the great Brian Keene and a lot of encouragement and opportunities from Christoph Paul at CLASH. I cannot enumerate all the people that made Stokercon awesome but John Edward Lawson and the HWA put on a good enough convention that I decided that the time has come for me to apply for membership.

New work looms ahead, as do upcoming trips to both Necon in Massachusetts and Killercon in Texas. where I will see if I won a Splatterpunk award. The future is bright and weird and full of promise, welcome to the new shit with me.