Good news! A Glamour of Toads has been optioned by Water Dragon Publishing, for their mid-year anthology, Dragon Gems. Look for it around summer, or end-of-summer -- which is winter or early spring down under, of course. "Toads" is a mediaeval fantasy, juuuust a little bit on the dark side, about magic and mortal fear, and a lot more. (The artwork here wasn't actually done for the story, but I'm about to post an announcement to my writing blog, and I thought, "Hey, that almost fits it to a tee, I just need to do a bit of repainting...!") I'll let you know when the anthology is published ...
Also, Collateral Damage is in the March issue of ANALOG Science Fiction. If it isn't on the magazine racks now, it soon will be. That's another story set on Mars, in the same world-building project as The Way Back, which was in the February ANALOG last year, and Happy Hour, which was in Mythic #17. This is wonderful for me ... it gives me some real inspiration to write more in this universe. I've done a couple of others -- Welcome to Mars, (which is archived here), Home Soil (which is waiting for a home), Dust Gets in Your Eyes (likewise), and so forth. There's enough to get me thinking about an anthology...
Lastly, the fantasy, The Gates of Petheris, has been available from Four Star Stories for some time -- this came out in my hiatus, when I vanished off social media for about four months and didn't post anywhere, about anything. I'll be archiving it very soon, with a new suite of art.
