I am delighted to announce that the lovely people at Manifold Press / manifold_press  have agreed to publish two new titles of mine.

If our current plans come to fruition, The Valley of the Shadow of Death will be published in November 2011 – though perhaps not under exactly that title, as it is felt to be a trifle long. This is a modern-day tale of a cop, Joshua Delaney, and a mobster, Angelo Trezini, set in Chicago. It once made a brief foray into print, courtesy of Homosapien Books, but hasn’t been available since.

And for anyone brave enough to cope with a little more of Albert, a volume of stories titled Future Bright, Past Imperfect will be available in February 2012. Those of you who already felt that The Definitive Albert J Sterne was plenty long enough will be either horrified or relieved to know that I drafted far more prose than actually ended up in the novel. This ‘companion’ title presents some of that material in eleven stories that (hopefully!) provide a little more insight into Albert, Fletch and Garrett.

I am unutterably proud that Manifold Press has such faith in my work! I hope those of you who give any of my novels a try will enjoy what you find.