Ambergris Novel and Story Collection Sales

I'm happy to report that, through my agent, I have sold my novel Finch to editor Victoria Blake at Underland Press in a very, very sweet deal. Other authors to be published by Blake's new venture (she's a former editor at Dark Horse) include Brian Evenson. I have also sold Finding Sonoria & Other Stories to Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications. We love Tachyon, and I feel this is a very good match.Finch will be completed by September and published in spring 2009. Finding Sonoria & Other Stories has yet to be scheduled, but will include some previously unpublished work as well as the best of my published fiction since 2004.Here's a brief description of Finch:A crime noir set in the fantastical failed state of Ambergris. The gray caps, mysterious underground inhabitants, have re-conquered the city and put the human inhabitants in camps, controlling them with strange addictive drugs. Remnants of the Resistance are scattered, martial law in place. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, his wife dead, must solve an impossible double murder while trying to make contact with the rebels and sussing out the real agenda of his mysterious girl friend, Sintra. Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever.The cat is becoming something else.The lizard watches intently from the windowsill.Something is about to happen.And they both want to know: who is Finch, really?