So, Homecoming and The Wave and Other Stories are going out of print. This means a few things worth mentioning.
One, if you ever had any burning desire to own either of them, now would be the optimal time to get on that.
Two, it means I can do whatever I wish with them–the rights revert back into my own hot little hands. What I wish will probably look something like this: hide Homecoming until such date I rewrite it as a screenplay, which is really what I’ve wanted to do with it for a few years now; release some stories from The Wave as Creative Commons right here* for your enjoyment and perusal; rewrite two stories from The Wave that never came out exactly how I wanted them to the first time ‘round and either reprint them someplace or release them as Creative Commons as well.
It wasn’t too long ago that I was musing over the state of those books and wondering how they would fit into my “career” (frenetic air quotes) going forward. Funny how life gives you an answer–when you ask the question, that is**.
Update on the whole finding-my-process debacle: none or some, depending on how you squint at it (remember Oblique Strategies? “A Line has two sides.”). I have written notes for three new stories (that are interesting ideas but, as of yet, seem to go nowhere), but no keyboard typey-typey has happened. I’ve revised one story written at Clarion West ( and sent it off), tried to revise a second (and managed to muck it up further), and began revising a third (with the intention of sending that off somewhere this week). So, yeah. Still approaching step three.

*I’d do that now, except here’s a fun fact: two computers ago, a nasty little virus thingie munched the fuck out of my hard drive, erasing both entire manuscripts from soft copy existence. Which means, I will have to retype these suckers all by myself, unless someone has a magical typing elf they’d like to lend me for the duration.

**Oh, I understand that things go in and out of print, that this is the business, and all that kind of stuff, but I have to admit that it’s left me with a sense of ambivalence I wasn’t expecting. Relief v. discouragement, possibility v. hand-wringing. Interesting,