My short story “Things That Never Happened” will soon appear in Postscripts #30/31 from PS Publishing. The issue, which carries not just a number, but also the title Memoryville Blues, will be out once the signature sheets pass through the hands of all the contributors and make their way back to the publisher.

I’m not sure how long that whole process will take, but while we wait, check out the cover below (which might not be the final design).

Here’s the complete Table of Contents:

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Next Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, which means that if you wander into a comics shop on May 4, 2013, you might just walk out with a comic book written … by me!

But how is that possible? I haven’t written any comics in decades. How could I possibly have anything in a comic handed out on Free Comic Book Day?

Blame Thanos!

Bill Hall of The Daily Kirby let me know today (beating out Marvel Comics, who’s yet to alert me) that my back-up story from Logan’s Run #6, which starred Thanos and Drax the Destroyer, will be reprinted in Infinity, Marvel’s giveaway for Free Comic Book Day. All because Thanos is now a big deal due to his appearance at the end of The Avengers movie.

The freebie is described as follows: (more…)

I told you earlier this week about the Authors Gala that SFWA will be hosting at Mad City Coffee in Columbia, Maryland tomorrow night from 7:00-9:00 p.m.—but just in case that didn’t convince you to attend, here’s an updated flier with even more photos of the authors who’ll be taking part.

Now that you know what we all look like, I’m sure you’ll try real hard to be there. You wouldn’t want to be the one responsible for making those faces sad, would you?

Last weekend, if you wanted to hang with me, you’d have had to travel to Dearborn, Michigan for Immortal ConFusion. But this weekend, buying a book and getting an autograph will be a bit easier. Well, at least for those in the Maryland/Virginia/Washington D.C. area.

Mad City Coffee in Columbia, Maryland will host a gathering of SFWA authors Saturday from 7:00-9:00 p.m. … and if you’re not interested in writers’ writing, why, you can always ignore us all and just listen to a writer singing, because Catherine Asaro will be performing with her band.

Check out the complete details below.

Copies of two of my short story collections—What Will Come After and What We Still Talk About—will be available for purchase. And autographing, too. Though whether that will make the books more valuable or less has yet to be determined …

Hope to see you there!

If you’d like to begin reading a quartet of undead tales right now, then why not check out the new ebook A Clutch of Zombies, assembled by Stephen Jones from stories previously reprinted in his Best New Horror anthologies?

And, oh, will you look at that? One of those stories is mine!

If you’re not already familiar with “What Will Come After” from its first appearance in my collection of the same name, now’s your chance to catch it in the company of zombie stories by Joe R. Lansdale, Albert E. Cowdrey, and Karina Sumner-Smith.

A Clutch of Zombies seems to be available everywhere, including iTunes and kobo, so … what are you waiting for?

I wish I could have shared the following videos while Chicon7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, was still ongoing, as that would have hewed to Edelman’s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting. But alas, I was far too busy. (Future posts will show you just how busy.)

First up, on Thursday, August 30, Adam-Troy Castro read his short story “My Wife Hates Time Travel,” recently published in Lightspeed. Since you weren’t there, you don’t get any of the chocolate chip cookies he was handing out in support of his new novel Gustav Gloom and the People Taker—which should teach you to show up in person next time.

And then, on Monday, September 3, I read “A Most Extraordinary Man,” a sequel of sorts to Saki’s “The Open Window,” which will be published in the anthology The Monkey’s Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead from NonStop Press. (more…)

My short story, “A Test of Faith for a Couple of True Believers,” has just been published in the Spring 2012 issue of Space and Time.

And I see I my first appearance in Space and Time was back in 1982. Gulp!

As for what’s next—expect to see “The Trembling Living Wire” at Electric Velocipede, “Thing That Never Happened” in an upcoming issue of PostScripts, and “An Extraordinary Man” in the anthology The Monkey’s Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead.

And that’s it for my pipeline of unsold and unpublished stories … so I’d better get writing!

Over at the Night Land Journal, my short story “What Will Come After” was praised as the result of its recent reprinting in Stephen Jones’ latest best horror of the year anthology:

One of the most unusual zombie stories I’ve ever read is Scott Edelman’s “What Will Come After,” which I just read as the lead story in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #22 …

“What Will Come After” got under my skin and into my blood faster than any zombie virus ever could. It’s a live human and undead zombie story all mixed together. Actually, it’s more of a meditation on inevitability than anything else. I found it both frail and strong at the same time—all very affective and certainly unforgettable.

If you can’t find a copy of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #22, you can always catch up with the story in my all-zombie collection of the same name, either in a print edition or as an ebook.

The review is credited only to “DC5,” so I don’t know quite whom to thank, so whoever you are, all I can say is—you’ve got … BRAINZ!

Looks like there’ll be a few further examples of my ancient comics career excavated and put on display during the coming months. So if you’re interested in checking out some of my Bronze Age Marvel back-up features, but don’t want to go through the hassle of tracking down the original comics, here’s where you’ll be able to find them.

First out, on February 22, is Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 8, which will apparently reprint my solo Angel story that originally appeared back in 1980 in Marvel Treasury Edition #27.

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Back in 1990, I was one of the first people interviewed by Fast Forward. (I was interviewed again in 2010, which you can watch by checking out the archives here, but since that’s only last year, stepping into the time machine won’t be quite as interesting as what’s below.)

The show is currently run by Mike Zipser and Kathi Overton (who recently dug out the video you’re about to see). John Pomeranz conducted the 21-year-old interview. How has time changed us? Well, here’s what John and I looked like together 17 years later at the 2007 Worldcon in Japan.

What did I learn when looking back at the episode (during which I share the stage with writer Judith Eckerson)?

First, that I sure said the phrase “and so forth” a heck of a lot! Sure glad I broke myself of that habit. (more…)