{"id":4550,"date":"2011-10-24T17:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/october-24-2011-short-story\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:22:32","slug":"october-24-2011-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4550","title":{"rendered":"October 24, 2011: Short story!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t checked out Shock Totem<\/a> yet, you really should do so. They’re really a very good addition to the weird\/horror fiction market.<\/p>\n

The bad news is, their fifth issue is delayed until next July. The good news is that, when it comes out, it will include a story written by the very author whose words you are now reading. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

"In Deepest Silence" is one of my forays into semi-Lovecraftian territory, but I’ve done something that I like to think includes a new (or at least not uncommon) addition to that particular sub-genre. I’m indebted to the folks at Shock Totem, and delighted they enjoyed the story as much as they did.<\/p>\n

I should also say that "In Deepest Silence is a minor milestone for me. It’s not my first published short story by any means–but it is<\/em> my first published short story to go through a traditional submission\/slush pile scenario. All my others to date have been either assigned to me (such as with RPG-related stories) or appeared in anthologies to which I was invited.<\/p>\n

Yes, it seems like a stretch to call that a "milestone," but I think other writers will understand why that feels like a big deal. (Or not. Maybe I’m just that crazy.)<\/p>\n

Also, while I can’t say what it is yet, you folks might be interested in knowing that I’m currently in the midst of working on another tie-in novel–and it’s not<\/em> for any of the properties I’ve ever worked on before. Stay tuned for more annoyingly cryptic announcements soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t checked out Shock Totem yet, you really should do so. They’re really a very good addition to the weird\/horror fiction market. The bad news is, their fifth issue is delayed until next July. The good news is that, when it comes out, it will include a story written by the very author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}