Just a quick bit of news before I’ve got to run off to work:
My hard-boiled detective novelette Until the Bone Shows Through is being serialized by Crimson Streets. The first part is out now, available to read for free on their website. I’m not sure exactly what the publication schedule will be for parts two and three, but as the segments are published, I’ll keep you all up-to-date.
It’s a story about female detective working in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and about an unusual robbery she's hired to solve. It’s got good creole cooking and cheap booze and vodou and a whole lotta the blues in it. It’s got gunfights and bodies in rugs and a sex scene in the cutting shadows of venetian blinds. I’m pretty happy with it, and immensely proud of it.
Here’s the art, by Jihane Mossalim:
Give it a read: I think it’s a good little October story. I’d love to know what all of you think.
(Rats. I’m late for work.)
—m.