I published my first short story collection, These Words Are Haunted, back in 2001. It was a hardcover aimed primarily at the collector market, and cost $37.95. I’ve long wished the book could be available as an inexpensive paperback, so those unfamiliar with my writing and therefore unwilling to drop that big a chunk of change on an unknown might be more likely to give me a try.

Come April, that will finally happen, thanks to Ian Randal Strock, who runs Fantastic Books, which also published my science fiction short story collection What We Still Talk About.

Also requiring thanks—Memo Angeles, who created a Zombie Alphabet that won my heart (and brains!), plus Chris Kalb, who used that alphabet to design this awesome cover.

Here’s the press release announcing the book’s upcoming publication.

The paperback of These Words Are Haunted will be 224 pages, cost $13.99, and come out on April 7, 2015. It can’t be ordered yet—I’ll let you know when links go live—but I couldn’t resist teasing you now with that beauty of a cover.