Starting today, Keyhole Press is taking pre-orders for my limited edition minibook Wolf Parts.

A dark, fragmentary retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in forty short fictions, this version of Wolf Parts will only be available to people who pre-order the book before its print date of March 21, 2010. The book costs $8 (with free shipping), for which you'll receive the perfect-bound minibook, plus an audiobook version that you'll be able to download immediately upon completion of your order. As an added bonus, you'll also receive an e-coupon for $3 off my full-length collection How They Were Found when it becomes available for pre-order later this year, sometime before its October release.

To give you a taste of what's inside, here's the beginning of the book:

After Red cut her way out of the wolf’s belly—after she wiped the gore off her hood and cape, her dress, her tights—she again found herself standing on the path that wound through the forest toward her grandmother’s house. Along the way, she met with the wolf, with whom she had palavered the first time and every time since. Afterward, she went to her grandmother’s, where she again discovered the wolf devouring the old woman, and where he waited to devour her too, as he had before. Once again she was lost, and once again, she cut herself out of his belly and back onto the stony path. Over and over, she did these things until, desperate to break the cycle, she laid across the stones and, with the knife her mother had given her, gutted herself, quickly, left to right. She cried out in wonder at the bright worlds she found hidden within herself, and with shaky hands she scooped their hot wet flesh into the open air, where with a flick of her wrists she set them each free.

Basically, if you order Wolf Parts during the next three weeks--the only time it will be available for purchase online--you'll receive the audiobook immediately, the print minibook in early April, and, should you later choose to order How They Were Found directly from Keyhole, you'll get that book for just $11 (instead of the usual $14), plus some pre-order bonuses for that book that we're not ready to talk about yet.

That's it for the sales pitch. On a more personal level, I can honestly say that this is one of my own favorite works, and one that I'm incredibly happy to finally put out into the world after keeping it close for the past year or so. I hope you'll consider picking up a copy, and that if you do you'll enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed working on it in all its various incarnations. As always, thanks again in advance for your support and your readership, and for doing whatever you can to spread the word about Wolf Parts.

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