Current mood:

working

A prequel...sort of
So, a while back I might have mentioned how I sat down after knee surgery a few years back and went a little crazy with the writing. I had recently finished HARVEST MOON and I decided to write two pieces to go with it, knowing full well that they would likely never see print. The idea was to do two stories about the Brothers Three from HM, to add to the one existing story about Jack Bathory there would be one about Robert Bathory and one about Patrick Bathory (Winter). Neither is exactly a must have if you read HARVEST MOON and both are meant to be stand alone stories that help foreshadow the events of the novel. One was 8,000 words and the other was 18,000 words and both of them are pretty damned good as far as I can tell. I also wrote 45,000 words of a novel that died a slow and painful death that was much deserved. What can I say? Apparently it's hit or miss when you're riding on pain pills.

Well, Cemetery Dance decided to do a limited print run of BONE HARVEST, one of the two stories I wrote related to the Beldam Woods and HARVEST MOON. Now another publisher will be doing a little something with the 18,000 word novella I wrote that accompanied it.

I can't say who.
I can say that I just saw the cover for the first time and it rocks just like I knew it would.

I'll keep you posted.

So for the completists out there: that's Harvest Gods (coming out in my SLICES collection)
http://earthlingpub.com/jm_slices.htm

Bone Harvest (coming out from Cemetery Dance)
http://www.cemeterydance.com/sh/_chapbk017.html

The unnamed story of Patric Bathory (who calls himself Partric Winter)


and, of course, HARVEST MOON which is currently available from Cemetery Dance Publications.
http://www.cemeterydance.com/sh/moore01.html

And for the completionusts, there's also the story Cody's Pumpkin which has been previously released and is set in the town of Beldam Woods.

Jim