The Ghostwriter in the Machine, LLM Author Psychosis, and Other Saturday Sundries

This is going to be a more scattered post than usual as I’ve spent recent weeks in the novel mines finishing up my forthcoming haunted houses (yes plural) novel Haunted Hills. I plan to write more about that soon. For now, some other things: Two Anthologies To Look Out ForDespite being deep in the novel mines for the last few months, I did manage to emerge and finish two short stories that are coming out in two very different yet equally cool anthologies. The first anthology is Thirty Cabins edited by , which is organized around an old 1918 cabin catalog called Sunset’s Cabin Plan Book. Each author was asked to write a flash fiction piece based on one of the cabin plans and other chapters (my story is based on the “cabin miscellany” decoration section). I love a playful Oulipian constraint like this, and the anthology has a great line-up of writers, many of whom are here on Substack such as , , and . The zine should be out later this summer. There is also a Substack newsletter for the…