Novella excerpt (Patreon)

I think I'm going to use this space as something of a writing journal occasionally, posting snippets from drafts and discussing my works in progress.

My current work in progress is a novella called The Barrow Will Send What It May, the sequel to The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion. (The Lamb will be out in August this year from Tor.com).

It's my punk paranormal investigator series. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the sequel right now (finishing up chapter 3 out of 8) and I'm absolutely in the middle of deadline crunch. If I write 2500-3000 words a day, I'll finish it on time.

here's one of my favorite snippets, from chapter 3. Our protagonist is visiting someone, Isola, who is rumored to have died and come back to life.

Isola didn’t look like a zombie.

She looked, instead, like, well, one of us: she wore a slip dress that showed off her full figure, her hair was tied up in a loose bun, revealing tattoos across her neck even though she probably wasn’t a day over twenty-two. She had a claw hammer in her hand. No, wait. Both hands. She had a claw hammer in each hand, it’s just that only one of the two was raised.

Instant friend-crush.