I've sold another novelette to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It's called "The Prognosticant" and carries on the life and times of my new serial character, Baldemar, a young wizard's henchman. It's my thirtieth sale to F&SF.

And I've turned in "Thunderstone," a space-opera/science-fantasy mix to Nick Gevers, who is editing an invitation-only antho I was invited to submit to on a last-minute basis when somebody else didn't deliver a story. It features Erm Kaslo, a far-future Sam Spade. I'm hoping Nick takes it.

I invented Kaslo some years ago for a story called "And Then Some," that ran in Asimov's and then again in Lightspeed Magazine, where it became the beginning of a serialized novel called The Kaslo Chronicles. After it ran, I tidied up the narrative and sold it to PS Publishing, which will bring it out in limited editions and ebook format in the next few weeks, retitled as A Wizard's Henchman.

I'm telling you all this because I see I have set things up for possible confusion. Erm Kaslo is a hard-boiled, Sam-Spade-type private eye who becomes a wizard's henchman when the universe switches from science to magic, and we make the transition from a Jack Vancean Gaean Reach kind of civilization to the decadence of The Dying Earth.

Baldemar is a wizard's henchman on an Old Earth that is already well into the Dying Earth era. They have nothing in common except the henchman thing.