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Halloween's becoming a lot like Christmas. It's starts creeping in a month or so early. Give Oktoberfest so breathing room, people. No doubt we'll see Christmas stuff up Nov 1, and Hotcross buns out on Boxing Day. Thus is the cycle of life. Perhaps we need to embrace more religious holidays to fill the rest of the year out with treats and costumes.

But I do love this time of year. I'm currently working as a security officer at a fun park as day (evening) job. They're doing a Halloween thing for a couple weeks, so I'm often standing on a deck watching Silent Hill nurses cavort and convulse in the bloody uniforms and bandaged heads, to terrorise folk as they enter the park. 

It's an agonising job as I stand for hours on feet that aren't built for it (collapsed arches, a heel issue, etc). It's literal torture, motivating me to get as many books out into the world and sell a million copies of each. It's like a reverse cop show/movie trope: after years behind a desk I've been retired to the streets.
I'm in so much pain all the time, please buy all my books when they're out.

Speaking of books, I'm redrafting my Dwarven novel, and have sent a sample to a publisher for their brief annual window. So, wish me luck.

I'm quite proud that I have four horror tales releasing within a single month (more or less) in horror themed anthologies;

'The worst Thing in the Dark' (contemporary horror) featuring in 'Haunt' from Dragon Soul Press
'Dead Man's Crown' (fantasy/horror) featuring in 'Nightmare Fuel 2022' from Cloaked Press
'Black Rabbit' (fantasy/horror) featuring in 'Season of the Witch' from Crimson Pinnacle Press
'Embrace of the Spider Queen (fantasy/horror) featuring in 'Beautiful Darkness 1' from Dragon Soul Press

In other new, I have a fantasy novelette 'Fire and Lightning' to be included in 'Reign of Fire' an anthology from Dragon Soul Press due out in January, and my short story 'Turning a New Leaf' in 'Rogues and Redeemers' from Ardent Dawn/Zasra Press in March.

There should also be several flash fiction pieces in 'Ivy & Sage' from Iron Faerie Publishing due out in December, I believe. 

In the meantime, I'm going to soak my broken feet before another torturous evening of standing on them, just so I can pay the rent while I try to squeeze in the odd bit of writing. I resent the writing time loss, but do enjoy eating and not sleeping in the street in the rain.

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