The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now #318 -- Upcoming Books for 2015

What new books do you have coming out this 

year readers should be looking forward to?

Oh yeah. There are lots of collections and novellas coming out this year, in addition some major comic book work that I hope to be able to reveal soon. Among all the upcoming published projects are:

Reel Dark: Twisted Fantasies Projected on the Flickering Page, "As So She Asked Again," Blackwyrm Publishing, 2015

"Spy Candy: The Dead Man Wore Stockings," Pro Se Productions Single Shot/Signature Series, 2015

Capes and Clockwork II, "No So These City Beasts," Dark Oak Press, 2015

The Ruby Files Volume 2, "A Tree Falls in a Forest," Airship 27 Productions, 2015

The New Deal: Masks and Mutants, "Gatsby," Pro Se Productions, 2015

Asian Pulp, "The Face of the Yuan Gui," Pro Se Productions, 2015

Black Pulp II, "The Hubris of Gods," Pro Se Productions, 2015

Hookerpunk, "The Truth Shall Set You Free," Dark Oak Press, 2015

The Danger People, "Daughter of Isis," New Babel Books, 2015

Armless O'Neill: Cognac Is My Mistress, Pulp Obscura (Pro Se Productions), 2015

Senorita Scorpion: When Weeps the Wailing Woman, Pulp Obscura (Pro Se Productions), 2015

Swingin' Superheroes, "The Robot Roundtable," Mechanoid Press, 2015

The Many Worlds of Ulysses King Vol. 2, "Trial and Tribulations," Pro Se Productions 2015

And a few more I can't announce yet...

The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now (#262) -- Rattling the Cages of Your Memories

What's the most horrific thing you've discovered while you kicked the dust and rattled the cages of your own memories -- which you've gone on to use in writing?

One thing I regularly learn more about myself when I write (and reinforce the knowledge of when I write) is the depth of my own depravity. Seriously, no saint could dream up some of the crazy stuff I think up. Hookerpunk? I don't think so. Total Fubar (my newest comic pitch that has been picked up, more to come as it develops)? Not on your life. I'd be drummed out of the local church and probably my family too for some of this stuff.

On a deeper level though, I think the thing I tend to learn more about me as I write is just how much growing up the child of divorce affected me. I remember when I wrote the story "Erosion" (originally published in O' Georgia, currently collected in Gomer and Other Early Works), I surprised even myself when the last line spilled out onto the computer screen: "He was a much smaller man that I had realized." It was almost cathartic. I hadn't realized myself the depth of loss I had been feeling having grown up without a regular father around (I had a few step-fathers, but not a steady ongoing dad, until I was 15). I think, in many ways, writing that story helped me deal with my feelings about that loss (regardless of blame), and move on to actually begin being able to have a real relationship with both my dads (my step-dad of more than half my life now and my natural father who sired me). I'm luckier by far because of that, but dealing with it within the confines of that story wasn't easy or fun.