Dingo will be published in hardcover in the spring of 2008 as part of a five year anniversary celebration for Firebird Books.

Yellow Dog
Subterranean Press, May 2008
Subterrananean Press is doing another one of my Triskell Press chapbooks. This a story which takes place in the American Southwest. Yellow Dog will be printed in two colors throughout, with a cover and several interior illustrations by me.

Yellow Dog will be available as a chapbook or a hardcover. You can get more information here.

What the Mouse Found
Subterranean Press, 2008
A collection of obscure and unpublished children's stories, most of which were based on soft sculptures and dolls made by MaryAnn, and were written for the kids who received the art. Included in the book are photos of the pieces that inspired the stories, with a cover featuring my niece Kmoré as the model, illustrating the introduction, "Kissing Frogs."

What the Mouse Found is a hardcover. You can get more information here.

New Books for 2007
Little (Grrl) Lost
Viking, September 2007
Little (Grrl) Lost germinated from the short story of the same title that first appeared in Firebirds Rising, but you don't need to go track that book down since the story appears as the first chapter in the novel.

There are two entwined plotlines in the novel. One answers Elizabeth's question of what to do when you've got a lot of attitude, but you're a Little in a big world, standing only six inches tall. But being a Big, as Elizabeth's full-sized friend T.J. is, doesn't mean that everything in your life is automatically going to go any smoother.

Especially when your Little is lost.

Little (Grrl) Lost is a hardcover.

Promises to Keep
Subterranean Press, September 2007
After Widdershins, I thought I wouldn't write at length about Jilly again. I'd promised one more short story about her for Bill at Subterranean Press, but that would be it.

Having left her in a good place at the end of Widdershins, I didn't want to complicate her life yet again, so I planned to set the story earlier in her life, during her first year as a student at Butler University.

Except the story grew. I was having too much fun visiting with this younger Jilly, so I asked Bill if I could expand it and swap it for the "Newford retrospective" collection that he'd contracted with me. He agreed, and that's how Promises to Keep came to be.

The book takes place in 1972 and begins with Jilly getting a surprise visit from an old friend—her only friend—from her runaway days. Interspersed with the main story that leads off from that meeting are flashbacks to pivotal moments in her life: time spent in the Home for Wayward Girls, her life on the street, meeting and working with the Grasso Street Angel, the first time she meets various familiar faces (Geordie, Sophie, etc.). You'll find out how the messed-up street kid she was grew a social conscience, and became the cheerful character we know from later stories.

Promises to Keep is a hardcover. You can get more information here.