Good Day, GHOULJAW

After checking in on the marketing and sales report, there’s been a modest purchase-bump for my freshman collection, Ghouljaw and Other Stories, released by Hippocampus Press in 2014, with a humbling Introduction from S.T. Joshi and cover art by Jared Boggess.  (One sales site claims only five copies remaining in stock.)  

And since it’s been nearly eight years since its publication, I’ll supply a memento from the gifted Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of The Last Policeman:  “These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked.”

Publish Service Announcement: THE SKELETON MELODIES by Clint Smith (Hippocampus Press, 2020)

Closing in on a year since I received the initial cover-art drafts from the inimitable Dan Sauer, along with the final galleys from Hippocampus Press. I’m pondering the process this morning, dwelling on (in an otherwise pitiful year of 2020) my mystifying stroke of luck to cross paths with artists (particularly ones who endorsed the project) saturated in various creative crafts. If time and interest allow, check out my sophomore collection of short stories, The Skeleton Melodies.