Just a few days ago I heard that Gunpowder made the shortlist for this year’s British Fantasy Awards, while Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft wound up on the final ballot for best comic/graphic novel. If you’re looking for something good to read, you’ll find a lot of material worthy of your attention over on the full ballot; check it out. My thanks to everyone in the BFS for the support.

I’ve been a lazyass about posting on the blog, but only because I haven’t been a lazyass about work – I’ve been putting in pretty full, satisfying days at the computer, and when I’m done I’m not much in the mood to wax all eloquent here on the website. A bit of harmless twittering is usually about the best I can manage. Buuut, if you really feel like you can’t get through the week without a big slice of my gab, I did an interview with Graphic Novel Reporter the other day.

Finally, people have been wondering when the next book is out. I was keeping my mouth shut on the subject for a very good reason: I didn’t know. Now I do – February.

Because all your questions are about to be answered. Or at least most of them. Or at least the ones I felt like getting to before I ran out of time and wandered off to read comix.

No apologies for the length of this post. You asked ‘em.

Q: In what order, from least to most, let’s say, do you enjoy writing the following: blog entries, Twitter posts, short fiction, novels, and comics?

But it doesn’t break down like that. First, the act of make-believe is a hell of a lot of fun, so anytime I’m working on a new story, I’m probably enjoying myself, regardless of form. Sometimes, though, there are bad days, days when I discover an idea or a character or a scene isn’t playing out like I hoped, and then the job is more like real work.

Twitter is generally more fun than the blog.

Q: where do you get your ideas?

Schenectady. They have them on a shelf in a Mom & Pop on Route 147.

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