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Are there any other upcoming publications or appearances you would like to announce? One of my standing jokes is something George Burns used to say: “I can’t die, I’m booked.” This year’s schedule is like that. Entirely apart from writing I’m going to make a dozen or more convention and renaissance faire appearances, and there is talk of a kind of “monthly mini-tour” where I would spend a week at a time going to different cities for a combination of bookstore signings and theater screenings of the animated Last Unicorn, with Q&A sessions beforehand. On the writing side I’m busy making a transition from my recent focus on short fiction—over seventy new stories in the last five years—back to book-length fiction and nonfiction and movie scripts. To do that I first have to finish another dozen or so short stories and novelettes that I’ve started for different magazines, anthologies, and a set of mini-collections from Conlan Press. The Schmendrick set is one of those, but there’s also going to be a three-story Shakespeare set, and a set of six original unicorn stories set in very different times and places. When those are done I’ve got two novels that need one more polish before they can go out the door, revisions to complete on the re-releases of The Innkeeper’s Song and The Folk of the Air, and then I really do feel like spending most of the next few years on bigger works. There’s also the possibility of some original theater writing, something I haven’t done since college, and of course the pleasure of seeing various things of mine come out in graphic adaptations. IDW’s version of The Last Unicorn premiered at number two on the New York Times Graphic Books bestseller list—that was a kick—and there are half a dozen other comics and illustrated books in the works. I never thought I’d be busier than ever as I snuck up on turning seventy-two, but that’s the case, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. |