“James, Mouse here—it’s what they call me. Been following you. Noticed kind of late you have a lot of fiction, but nothing really recent. Reverent Chandler was baaaaadass, bro. Like the weirdly brutal edge you have. Don’t tell me you stopped fiction? Of course not—you’re like addicted to writing. Right, am I right? James, you use soundtracks to your writing. Explains a lot, not all, a lot. Very fascinated in Beyond the Pale. When will you write the rest? You just have a prologue. What’s the sound track? Do you muse to your sound tracks when not writing? What’s coming next for the fiction readers?

-Mouse

Mouse, thanks for the kind words. You are the third reader to ask me about the fiction. My answers are below, and the soundtrack below that.

No.

Yes.

2017

Om—below.

Yes.

Finishing He—ASAP.

Finishing Seven Moons Deep in July. It will be much of what I write this month, so I will probably lose about 1,000 readers.