It's Thursday and aside from the interviewing, transcribing and general witchcraft associated with Burn that has been going on, I've finished up three short stories - and I'm feeling a bit pleased with myself. My plan with the shorts is to write three a month. One I'll give away for free right here, one will be pitched to be published in a short story magazine and the other will be published through an online magazine/site.

If my maths are worth anything at all, this means that by the end of the year, there will be 18 shorts in circulation which is a good start at collecting collateral on my reputation as a writer. The stories are split into two genres, possibly three. Each month there will be an Inspector Kang story, the other will be in the 'weird tales' vein. I say maybe three because there's every chance they might cross over. It's not really important. The important thing is to get this stuff out there. I should also point out that this will be an end of the month arrangement! That will at least give me time to hit the small presses up and see what happens.

Hey - it's a plan - and I don't do plans.

Along with Too Hot For Dogs steaming along and Almost Human firing on all cylinders, I'd say I was back in the arena of pleasure!

A while back I made a post called what the hell is this? Well, I've found another and it looks like this:
OK, it's not as far out there as my first "what the hell is this" but it still doesn't look right. It's not doctored or photoshopped - in fact, unlike the first one - which I really don't have any clue about and probably never will - I think this is a shoebill. In fact, I'm pretty sure it is. I may have to write a story about it. The damn thing looks like it came out of the Henson creature shop. Maybe I'll do some kind of play on that old story about Gef the Talking Mongoose. Laugh away ye heathens. Gef is the real deal - see the link here.

More "what the hell is this" soon. I'm becoming addicted...