Professional Liar RETURNS! BWA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAA!

Hey, I sold another short story. The good folks at AHOY Comics have purchased my li'l white lie "Bullets From The Copperhead Detective," and it will appear as a pulp prose piece in a future issue from the AHOY Comics line of superstars.

This is the ninth story I've sold to AHOY. My first was "Guitars Vs. Rayguns" in 2019, though the first one to see print was my Western "The Last Ride Of The Copperhead Kid," also sold in 2019. The reaction to the Copperhead Kid led me to write (and sell) some stories about the Kid's descendants, which have included a masked vigilante in the 1930s ("The Copperhead Strikes!"), a secret agent in the '60s ("The Copperhead Affair"), a bass-playin', ass-kickin' punk chick in the '80s ("Chaos At The Copperhead Club"), a present-day costumed heroine who decides to leave adventure behind her ("Flight Of The Copperhead"), and now going back to the 1920s for "Bullets From The Copperhead Detective," the tale of a Harlem-based private gumshoe whose latest case takes him to a confrontation in Tibet. There will be bullets.

(Incidentally, I've had this "Bullets From..." title in my head for a very, very long time. When I was a square-peg teen in the early to mid 1970s, I envisioned a sequel to the 1944 Captain America movie serial, and I called my never-in-a-million-years serial sequel Bullets From Captain America. Yeah, a '70s kid imagining a new 1940s movie serial. As I've said before and will say again: No, YOU get a life.)

One cool thing about the new story is that it was written very fast. I'd composed its opening paragraphs months ago, but earlier this year I took out my spiral notebook and started scribbling, continuing the story from memory of where it left off. I finished it that morning while sitting on my couch.

I will eventually collect all of the Copperhead Kid family of short stories together as a de facto novel, and I've been working on another entry called "The Copperhead Kid's New York Adventure," set in the early years of the 20th century. That novel is waaaaay down on my current to-do list, but I'm going to continue working on new chapters, and continue giving AHOY first right of refusal.

Meanwhile, watch this space for an announcement of when and where "Bullets From The Copperhead Detective" will hit comic book shop nationwide. The professional liar is back with a bullet.

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