Instead of paying me to manage his website or even chill with me at Crackle to watch monster movies, Geoff has been busy with several different writing projects.

In the short story department, Geoff’s been working on a horror story called “Where the Whiffle Ball Went” that should be ready for submission by the end of the week. He’s also re-writing “She Paddles the Impossible Canoe” after some helpful comments from friends and lovers. Over the August long weekend, Geoff wrote a historical fantasy short story about logging in North Vancouver, and in the next week he plans to get a draft of that up and running and ready for review by some of the same aforementioned friends and lovers. Okay, there’s only one lover, and she’s married to him, but damn it does sound good.

On the longer-work front, Geoff is completing the third draft (or fourth? He’s lost track) of a novella called “Archaeology in Reverse”, a splendid little tale if he does say so himself. He has one small chapter left and then a coda to re-write, then he needs to do some quilt work to bring it all together. He hopes to be shopping it around by the end of September.

Geoff is also putting together the course material for his Literature of the Imagination course. You can sign up online if you’re interested.

To top it all off, Geoff received the edits back on his piece “Abattoir Blues” which will appear in the Blackness Within anthology from Apex, coming out next year.

So as you can see, he’s busy. If you see him, please let him know my last cheque bounced.