Well, it has been a couple of years, hasn’t it? I haven’t put up a post here since the publication of Turn Over the Moon (purchase here). There are many reasons for this long stretch of silence, main among them some long post-pandemic recovery. Maybe I’ll address all this at some point once I figure out what different direction I want to take this website.

The reason I’ve come back is to announce that I’m writing the introduction to an upcoming collection of the stories of Clark Ashton Smith, one of my favorite authors. The introduction is for a Brazilian publisher, Editora Clock Tower, which specializes in collections of Portuguese translations of classic weird tale writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Algernon Blackwood. The publishers approached me several months ago to see if I was interested in writing the intro to Os Habitantes do Abismo (The Dwellers in the Gulf, based on the CAS story title “The Dweller in the Gulf”), which collects Smith’s Martian stories along with two other science-fiction works. I was happy to say “yes,” and a few weeks ago the editor informed me that the collection had met and exceeded its crowdsourcing goals. I’m working on writing the introduction now; I’ll post updates on when the collection will be available.

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