And now it is June 15th, which is sort of upsetting me a little bit, and that means it's time for my monthly current projects post. This is the regularly scheduled update which provides the only non-hysteria-inducing answer to the question "What are you working on?" It has the extra added bonus of proving that I am able to stop time, since otherwise, even I don't quite understand how the hell I'm getting everything finished in a timely manner. Seriously, I don't think I sleep. This is the June list of current projects, because I am the gift that keeps on giving.

To quote myself, being too harried to say something new: "These posts are labeled with the month and year, in case somebody eventually gets the crazy urge to timeline my work cycles (it'll probably be me). Behold the proof that I don't actually sleep; I just whimper and keep writing."

Please note that the first three Toby books (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night) and the first Newsflesh book (Feed) are off the list because they are now in print. The second Newsflesh book (Deadline) is off the list until The Other Editor tells me otherwise. Discount Armageddon is off the list because it has been turned in to The Agent.

The cut-tag is here to stay, because no matter what I do, it seems like this list just keeps on getting longer. But that's okay, because at least it means I'm never actively bored. I have horror movies and terrible things from the swamp to keep me company.

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We're halfway down the road that runs from Sparrow Hill to the Last Chance Diner; we're halfway between the beginning and the end. And that means it's finally time for me to tell the one story Rose has that's been kept private up until now—the story of the way it all began, and the night that Rose Marshall, high school girl with her whole life ahead of her, became Rose Marshall, hitchhiking ghost.

It's June, and this is the story of the way Rose Marshall died.

Issue 54 of The Edge of Propinquity is live, and with it, the sixth of the Sparrow Hill Road stories is available. "Last Dance With Mary Jane" takes us back in time to 1945, where a teenage girl named Rose is about to lose her way forever. This is the ending that began everything. This is the real story behind the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Diner...the Spirit of Sparrow Hill Road.

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Welcome to the ghostroads.