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The inestimable Charles Jane Anders released her new title this week, a techno-magical-apocalyptic-love-and-doom novel (try saying that five times in a row!). It’s called All The Birds In The Sky. Not surprisingly, Sky is stacking up positive reviews for being thoughtful yet fast-paced and unique. Check it out!!!
Team Carlson had a killer set of holidays. Hope you did, too. Now that the madness is settling down, I’m back at work, which means almost-healthy-breakfasts of WAAAAAAAAAY too much coffee, yogurt, bananas… and cinnamon toast…
Sometimes it’s tough to focus on the real world when your brain is inside Europa.
THANK YOU to everyone who’s emailed to say “Where the heck is the third FROZEN SKY novel?” I love it. No question this book is woefully behind schedule.
I finally updated my official bio on this site and here’s the short explanation:
“Early in 2015, Jeff was badly injured while muscling a 400 pound rock across his back yard, which is a boring and stupid way to get hurt. (For what it’s worth, the rock is infused with the fossilized remains of 12 million year old mollusks; it’s an extraordinarily cool rock.) Doctors, X-rays, pills and physical therapy were painful and expensive. Worst of all, the injury was time consuming.”
The other factor is since FS2 was more of a novella than a full-fledged novel, and since FS3 will be the capstone of the trilogy, I want to go out with a bang, so FS3 has turned into a godzilla. When I’m done, FS3 may be almost as long as INTERRUPT, which is an epic novel indeed. That’s the good news. It’s gonna be a big crazy adventure. But it’s taken extra long to write!
Originally I’d planned to have FS3 out before Christmas. Now I’m shooting for Valentine’s Day? Maybe sooner? The first 475 pages of the book are complete and out to my beta readers, but I still have to pen the big finale.
This is what those 475 pages look like if you’re a tree-killing maniac.
(Yes, I always edit hard copy because I spend all day in front of a computer and print-outs help me see the story with new eyes.)
I’m excited to see the Not Your Average Monster anthology, which includes my darkest-of-all story “Monsters.” And I say that as the guy who wrote Plague Year and Interrupt. Aha ha ha. “Monsters” is a bleak, sick story only for the strongest of heart!!!! 😉
Our good editor Pete Kahle has assembled quite the collection of twisted horror stories. Check it out!
NO VAMPIRES… NO WEREWOLVES… NO ZOMBIES… BEEN THERE. DONE THAT.
You’ve heard their stories before and you’re screaming for a different breed of horror.
Those monsters have had their moments in the moonlight and now it’s time for us to bury them in their graves. Let’s lock them in their coffins, pierce their hearts with wooden stakes and shoot them between their rotting eyes with silver bullets from an AK-47.
You wanted some new monsters. You got ‘em.
Say “hello” to the ones that are still hidden by the shadows. The ones that peer from behind the gravestones with multi-faceted eyes and crawl from the sewers on slime-covered tentacles. The ones that stain the pages within this tome with the blood of their victims.
NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONSTER: A BESTIARY OF HORRORS
22 new monstrosities unleashed upon the world from the deviant minds of:
Kya Aliana, D. Morgan Ballmer, Rose Blackthorn, John Bruni, The Behrg, Jeff Carlson, Mark Carroll, Adrian Chamberlin, Adrian Cole, Richard Dansky, Jeremy Hepler, Beau Johnson, Pete Kahle, Rob Lammle, Esther M. Leiper-Estabrooks, Marc Lyth, Christine Morgan, Billie Sue Mosiman, Megan Neumann, Jason Parent, Joshua Rex, Seth Skorkowsky
THIS AIN’T YOUR DADDY’S NIGHTMARE!