My newest book, Pirate Radio , co-written with the late Rex Miller, is a few weeks away from publication by Borderlands Press. It's a thriller with horror overtones. (To order, go to borderlandspress.com- I told you this was going to be shameless self-promotion!)
But I thought you might also be interested in how this book came to be. So here's my Foreword:

My first contact with Rex Miller was in 1991, when J. N. Williamson included a story of his in Masques IV , of which I was the publisher. Then in 1994, I included a story of his in Voices from the Night , which I edited and published. And in 1995, I published Rex's novel St. Louis Blues. By that time, we were great friends, not just author and publisher.

Then, in that same 1995, Rex sent me a first-draft typescript of this present novel, Pirate Radio. He said that while he liked it, he thought it needed work, and he felt too close to it to proceed. So would I, as a writer, not just a publisher, myself, want to take it on as a "novel doctor" and co-author?

Of course I would! Because this was Rex Miller, a giant of a man, physically, in his warmth, and in his boundless creativity, and it would be my honor to work with him.

So I set to work. The first thing the novel needed was to be put onto computer, since Rex had used a typewriter and even that wasn't scannable. But as I began the "chore" of keying the whole thing in, I immediately saw that this was a blessing in disguise. Because I found his story line, his outlook, and his prose so congenial that I was easily able to "doctor," and to amplify, line by line.

The result is a novel that's about two-thirds Rex's story line, scenes, and writing, and about one-third mine. But as I read it over when I was done, I concluded that our very congeniality had made it seamless. And I'll never forget the phone call, after Rex had read it too, in which he concluded the same, and told me what a great job I'd done.

As writing and publishing go, however, we didn't sell Pirate Radio at that time. But even after Rex died in 2004, I didn't stop trying. So it's been left, blessedly, to Tom and Elizabeth Monteleone of Borderlands Press to finally bring Rex Miller's last novel, with my modest contribution to it, to you.

So let's raise a glass to Rex Miller, the legendary creator of that horror icon, "Chaingang" Bunkowski. But also, as I think this book and others of his prove, an equal master of more subtle characterizations.
A big man. A huge talent. Rex, where you are now, I hope you're raising a glass, too.