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“Null and Void” – an episode in The Problems of Vernon Tevis – appears in The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories (Mango Publishing 2022), edited by Maxim Jakubowski

My 2018 story “A Girl, Ablaze with Life” appears in both Italian and French translations in 2022.

• In Italian as Una Ragazza che brucia di vita (Moscabianca Edizioni), translated by Emanuele Bero, with illustrations by Davide Bart. Salvemini
• In French as « Une Fille, enflammée de vie » in Solaris #222, in a translation by Pascal Raud, with an illustration by Sagana Squale

My 2006 story “This Is the Ice Age” is now available as “Buzul Çağı” in the Turkish anthology Kiyamet Alametleri (Omens of Doom), edited by Ünver Alibey from Istanbul-based publisher Bulut

1988’s THE JAM: SUPER COOL COLOR-INJECTED TURBO ADVENTURE FROM HELL by the genius cartoonist Bernie Mireault is my all-time fave single comics issue, so it was a tremendous honour for me when Bernie asked me to both contribute to and edit THE JAM: SUPER COOL COLOR-INJECTED TURBO ADVENTURE FROM HELL #2 (About Comics 2022). Ordering info (and more) in the link. The new SUPER COOL is packed with new and rare material, including a new collaboration between me & Bernie, “Avatars of Adventure: The Adept of Arcana,” and an expanded comics version of the very first prose JAM story (the original prose version originally appeared in Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen, which I co-edited with Mark Shainblum).

Two recent Three-Lobed Burning Eye anthologies reprint stories of mine that originally appeared in the online mag: “At the World Tree Hotel” (a Venera Dream) is reprinted in vol VII and “Prelude to Byzantium” (a Chronicle of the Second Global War) is reprinted in vol VIII. Both volumes are gorgeously illustrated and designed by editor Andrew Fuller.

Rock and a Hard Place #6 features “Viktoria’s Loyalty” (set in one of my favourite cities, Budapest) — a new episode in my noir series The Problems of Vernon Tevis

My Parisian horror tale “Marc and His Maman” is up at The Dread Machine

With the release of Spie della Seconda Guerra Globale, the entire seven-episode cycle of Chronicles of the Second Global War (Chronache della Seconda Guerra Globale) has now appeared in Italian, as translated by Chiara Beltrami, in four ebooks from Delos Digital, each volume with a kick-ass cover by the awesome Franco Brambilla. This fourth and final volume includes “Preludio a Bisanzio” (“Prelude to Byzantium,” which appeared at Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine in English), “Il Golem dai mille volti” (“The Golem with a Thousand Faces,” which was written for A.D. Lobel & Mark Shainblum’s Other Covenants anthology, a project orphaned by the CZP implosion, so this is this episode’s first appearance in any language), and the concluding episode, “Brandelli di una spia distrutta” (“Fragments of a Shattered Spy” – which makes its debut here in any language)

Episode 550 of Fantascientificast features a recording of myself, Anders Fager, and Andrea Vaccaro in conversation at Stranimondi 2019 in Milan

Recent and forthcoming episodes in The Problems of Vernon Tevis:

• “Falling and Catching” (Rock and a Hard Place #5, winter/spring 2021): Vernon Tevis confronts someone from his secret past
• “Null and Void” (Femmes Fatales, Mango 2022, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; forthcoming): Vernon Tevis pursues an AWOL prostitute from Ottawa to a Toronto house party
• “Viktoria’s Loyalty” (Rock and a Hard Place, forthcoming): During an investigation in Budapest, Vernon Tevis runs afoul of the Hungarian government