Autumn—I want you to hit me as hard as you can…

Let me tell you, folks, Fall can not get here soon enough. I’ll be the first to admit that even though I’m a sun/heat person, this summer in my adopted home of Phoenix has been a bear. But there’s other reasons why I want summer to hit the bricks and it's because this coming Autumn is going to be heralding some major changes.

So what’s coming in the Fall, you ask?

Okay, you all know about Crime Factory: The First Shift hitting the shelves. (Oh, speaking of Crime Factroy, have you downloaded issue #7 yet? I shit you not when I say it's the best issue we've put out to date, so get to it if you haven't already.)

You all know about my short story collection The Chaos We Know hitting the virtual shelves from Snubnose Press

Most of you know I’ll be at Bouchercon trying to keep Jimmy Callaway out of jail and Matt Funk and Cam out of bar brawls.

But here’s a bit more good news.

Recently the good folks at ChuckPallahniuk.net (AKA the Cult) put out the call for freelance writers and I figured, what the hell, I’ll try my luck and see what happens.

Well, what happened is that out of 500 applicants, I was one of the seven new freelancers selected to write for the Cult’s new home LitReactor starting in October.

Yeah, needless to say that I’m ecstatic to be writing alongside Cult regulars such as Stephen Graham Jones and Richard Thomas along with all the new kids.

Also, on top of the new writing gig, I’ll be helping out Crime Factory’s fiction editor extraordinaire, Jimmy “Don’t Call Me The Gem” Callaway, with a new venture which he’s heading up starting in September.

So come on Summer, get your ass out of here!

Oh, one last thing before I split out and just to prove summer ain’t all that bad, I figured I’d drop one more piece of news on you.

If you follow me on the Twitters, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been using this hash tag: #DICKED a lot

And typically speaking when I’ve used said hash tag I’ll usually mention something about Greg Bardsley being tortured, or Kieran Shea being a plant for the N.S.A or Jedidiah Ayres being transported to Guantanamo Bay…Well, there’s a reason for all of this, because D*CKED: Dark Fiction Inspired By Dick Chaney, edited by Greg Bardsley, Kieran Shea and Jedidiah Ayres is coming…

Alright, fellas, I outed you, so I’m sure the C.I.A will coming for the three of you sometime this morning.