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Here in southern Arizona’s high desert, as I write this, the summer monsoon season is winding down. Nights are getting longer and cooler, with that snap in the air, come morning, that lets you know that autumn is on the way. Across the country, kids are back in school. Soon enough it’ll be Halloween, then Thanksgiving.

Things seem to settle down this time of year, easing back into a familiar routine. That’s certainly the case here, where I’m hard at work on a new novel, having just turned in CSI: Blood Quantum, which will be on sale in February 2010.

In the meantime, CSI: Brass in Pocket is out now, and 30 Days of Night: Light of Day will be along at the end of September. You can read the first chapter of 30 Days of Night: Light of Day here.

The unusual thing about this year is the number of short stories I have coming out. First up will be a story called "Santos del Infierno", in the anthology Hellbound Hearts, a collection of stories based on Clive Barker’s Hellraiser mythos, also available on September 29. And to make it a trifecta, that day is also the scheduled release date of The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2, a collection of stories about The Ghost Who Walks that contains my story "The Leopard’s Eye". Finally, "Janey In Amber" will be found in The Stories in Between, an anthology celebrating independent bookstore Between Books, to be released in November or December.

There are another couple of stories out there, but farther out past the horizon. I’ll let you know about them when they’re more imminent.

I’ll be making a couple of convention appearances in October, at RinCon ’09 Gaming Convention in Tucson, AZ on Oct. 10-11, and the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, CA, Oct. 29-Nov. 1. If you’re in either of those places, I hope to see you.

Thanks for reading!

--Jeff

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