Hanzai Japan
One of the great joys of writing, for me, is selling a short story. I can’t explain it: You can’t live on the money you make, you often get very little notice for it, and yet I’m privately incredibly excited whenever I manage to convince someone that some chunk of words is worth paying me for.
My short story “Three Cups of Tea” will be included in the forthcoming Hanzai Japan from Haikasoru, which naturally makes it your priority. “Tea” is a Philip K. Marks story; this is the fourth story I’ve sold starring Mr. Marks, who’s a sort of run-down paranormal detective with huge chunks of his life missing from his memory (but not from some unpublished stories). For some reason when I think of Marks I tend to get some really awesome ideas.
I have some stiff competition in this anthology, though. Here’s the complete TOC:
Genevieve Valentine “(.dis)”
Yusuke Miyauchi “Sky Spider”
Libby Cudmore “Rough Night in Little Toke”
Ray Banks “Outside the Circle”
Yumeaki Hirayama “Monologue of a Universal Transverse Mercator Map”
Brian Evenson “Best Interest”
Jyouji Hayashi “Vampiric Crime Investigative Unit: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department”
Naomi Hirahara “Jigoku”
Carrie Vaughn “The Girl Who Loved Shonen Knife”
Kaori Fujino “Run!”
S. J. Rozan “Hanami”
Violet LeVoit “The Electric Palace”
Setsuko Shinoda “The Long-Rumored Food Crisis”
Jeff Somers “Three Cups of Tea”
Chet Williamson “Out of Balance”
Hiroshi Sakurazaka “The Saitama Chain Saw Massacre”
Get excited and pre-order this one today! And while you’re at it, buy Haikasoru’s other anthologies: The Future is Japanese and Phantasm Japan.