A few years ago, as the vampire craze was just beginning, Jeanne Cavelos asked me and several other writers to write stories about the great vampire hunter Van Helsing. The resulting book was nominated for several awards, including the World Fantasy Award. I believe it won the Stoker Award.

As the craze continues, someone realized that vampire readers might want this and issued it in a lovely mass market edition in September. The book is worth reading, whether you’re a big vampire fan or not. Some excellent work in here.

Two columns this week!  That won’t happen often.  

My second Baen’s Universe  column on “The Future of Reading” has just appeared.  You can look it up here.

I have a new column up for y’all to read.  It’s in the Internet Review of Science Fiction.   

What?  You ask.  I didn’t know you wrote a column for them.   I didn’t until this week.  Aeon Magazine, which was just wonderful, carried my Signals column for 14 columns. Sadly,  Aeon folded last month. 

IROSF picked up the staff from Aeon and my column as well.   So the new column went up this week.  You can find it here.   

I’ll miss Aeon.  But if you’re not reading IROSF, you should be.  It’s a lot of fun.  

Here’s the cover of the Analog with “The Recovery Man’s Bargain” in it. For those of you who are reading the series, this story is set before, during, and after the novel, The Recovery Man.

Of course, if you’re not reading the series, you can still read this story. It does stand alone.

I added a link to the Analog site, so if you can’t find the issue on the stands, you can order it directly through them.

Enjoy.

A few weeks ago, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine sent me extra copies of some of the issues I’ve been in.  It was a fun package to open, and it got me to look through my files.  Not every issue I’ve been in is here (see photo above), including the very first issue (in 1989) and the latest, November 2008.  

 Usually, I don’t pay a lot of attention to what I’ve done, choosing to focus on the current project, but I have to say this one startled me.  A lot.   I guess visual representations work for me–and made me want to write more mystery stories. 

I do love the digest magazines, and I’m proud to be in them.  I’m a little stunned to realize it’s been decades that I’ve done this.   Decades.  (How can that be?  In my head, I’m only 25….)