It’s been three and a half years since I put anything to print. Too long. A couple of months ago, I decided to change that.

I gathered together the Dr. Celestine’s Carnival of Souls posts that I’d written about Todd. I went over them again, editing out typos and considering whether I should keep or omit the song lyrics. I contacted Gil to pitch my idea to him. No profit coming to me, novella will be at cost, POD through Lulu.com, and your copyright and credit will be there for the setting and the Carnival’s characters. He was so geeked about it, he put together an incredible cover. I refined the document in OpenOffice to include a gutter in the margins, slogged through the cover creation process (three different editing applets to get what I want!), and created a wonderfully melodramatic blurb for the item listing page.

And then I published it.

It’s available now. Right here. Sixty-five pages of dark modern fantasy novella goodness. So, I come to you guys with a conundrum. Sure, I’ll be bringing copies to Penguicon to sell and to sign. I’ll sign any that people bring to me, too. Since it’s material that’s been available on the internet for a while, and it’s non-profit, I’m thinking that a release signing might not be the way to go. Should I just say order your copy now and bring it to me at Penguicon? Should I chuck caution to the wind and hold a release signing? Or should I get my pen back in contact with the page writing the sequel?

If it tickles your fancy, go and buy one! At under US$6.00, you can’t beat it. If you want to read it first, all of the posts are linked to in order here.