Wanted to let everybody know that my new collection, CLOSING TIME AND OTHER STORIES, is now available from Gauntlet Press in  numbered and lettered editions.  The jacket art is by Harry O. Morris and I like it a lot.  This is the first time the stories have been collected in a limited, and here's the contents list....

RETURNS

DAMNED IF YOU DO

STATION TWO

ELUSIVE

PAPA

THE FOUNTAIN

DO YOU LOVE YOUR WIFE?

AT HOME WITH THE VCR

THOSE ROCKPORTS WON'T GET YOU INTO HEAVEN

OLIVIA: A MONOLOGUE

BRAVE GIRL

HONOR SYSTEM

LIGHTEN UP

HOTLINE

MONSTER

CONSENSUAL

SEASCAPE

SNARL, HISS, SPIT, STALK

CLOSING TIME

Visit the Gauntlet Press site for more information.  Meantime, very best to all for '07!  --Ketchum

Teaser: here's the first paragraph from WEED SPECIES. 86 pages, CD Publications....

About an hour after she was sure her parents were asleep upstairs Sherry turned down the television and walked over to the couch and undressed her for Owen's camcorder. Pulled the sweatpants and panties down slowly over her legs and then lifted the Batman teeshirt over her head and unhooked the white training bra and slid it off her shoulders and down her arms. Finally she placed the dishrag soaked in halothane over her sleeping sister's face.

Bigtime Warning: this one's not for the squeamish....Ketchum

Hi folks -- just a note to everybody in the Massachusetts area -- I'll be a guest at Rock 'n Shock in Worcester, Mass. from the 13-15.  They'll be screening THE LOST too, probably on the afternoon of the 14th, but that's not firm yet so you should check with them.  Hope to see you there...!