Steve Niles let me know today that my vampire story FIGHT will appear in BLOODSUCKER TALES Issue No. 2, out from IDW in November. My story's a silly bonus - you'll really want to pick the book up for the horrifying sequentials DEAD BILLY DEAD, by Steve Niles and Kody Chamberlain, and JUAREZ, OR LEX NOVA AND THE CASE OF THE 400 DEAD MEXICAN GIRLS by Matt Fraction and Ben Templesmith.

Niles interviews Fraction here.

I wrapped up SENSUAL PHRASE VOL. 7 this week, but I still need to do the end column before moving on to VOL. 8. This book, by the way, is insane. (Hey, check it out: Greg McE plugs VOL. 5 in Thing To Come.)

Started doing some reading in preparation for a new Viz series last night. Can't talk about it yet, alas.

This weekend I'll work on the third SLAYERS prose novel and an adult magazine piece.

Wee!

Ended up finishing the vampire short story (titled "FIGHT") for BLOODSUCKER TALES laaaate Thursday night and getting it in Friday morning. (Chris Ryall is a peach to work with, by the by. I have some kind of weird good luck where getting affable editors is concerned.)

I'm not sure which issue it's going to be in, but I'll let you know when I know. (You should be buying all of them anyway, since the sequential stories are by two of my favorites.)

Speaking of IDW, did I tell y'all I saw some pages from LURKERS? Well, I did. They're breathtaking. Seriously, Hector Casanova should just quit this 'working for a living' nonsense and come live at our house and make beautiful paintings and drawings for us to fawn after. (I desperately want to own a page from DisGrace one day.)

I'll finish SENSUAL PHRASE Vol. 7 this weekend and start on the third SLAYERS novel on Monday.

(Got my comps of SENSUAL PHRASE Vol. 4 on Friday, by the way. The cover looks great, I'm looking forward to sitting down and reading it. This volume has the first of my SP end-columns, cleverly called "Satanic Verses." My editor, Eric Searleman, gets the credit for that. I don't remember what my title suggestions were, but rest assured they were crap.)

(Descendants of Darkness has an end-column as well. It's called "Dispatches of Darkness." You can blame me for that one.)

Finished and turned in the first part of Kare First Love Vol. 4 today; finishing up as-yet-untitled vampire short story (prose) for BLOODSUCKER TALES tonight.

Need to get the first half of Sensual Phrase Vol. 8 in by Friday, then I'm on to the third (and my last) Slayers text novel.