Hope autumn is treating you well. It's still summer here in the Southwest! Just a couple updates for you.

First, I finished writing Green Rider #6: Firebrand in earlyish August. It has since been with my editor, but there is no telling when she'll get to it, and I know nothing of a possible release date. (The author is always the last to know.) Here is hoping I have more to tell you sooner rather than later.

Second, I have a short story called "Mr. Island" coming out in an anthology called Unbound edited by Shawn Speakman. It is chock full of terrific writers, from Terry Brooks to Seanen McGuire. Here is the website, with ordering information.

What is "Mr. Island" about? It's rather hard to describe. It is not a Green Rider story, but the tale of an unusual mariner who washes upon the shore of 1878 Maine, and the changes his presence wreaks. It is part SF, part fantasy, part romance, all with a whiff of historical.

Cover art by Todd Lockwood