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Yeah, I got nothing.

Seriously, I have nothing to report.

Why? Well, once again real life got in the way.

No, really. Chris is still wrapping up the school year and, on top of other commitments, I’ve had some kind of cold that has traveled into my chest to form some ancient Lovecraftian cabal of mucus powered shoggoths intent on changing reality into a non-euclidian hell worthy of the Great Old Ones.

No, really, every time I blew my nose I had to roll a saving throw to keep from losing sanity points.

So, yeah, nothing to report, butI did manage to get my writing space pseudo-organized, so it’s not a total loss.

One of the reasons I setup TexasNoir.com was as a kind of public shaming accountability.  I mean, by leveraging the Facebook fans, the Twitter followers, and the random direct web-hit folks,  I theoretically have people other than just Chris keeping me on task.

Therefore I pledge a weekly (at a minimum) Texas Noir update, be it some long diatribe about how me and Chris plan on working together or just a cop out word count. Course, it would also help if said co-author, over the summer, dropped me some essays, stories,  or rants for that other site I ride herd on.

This leads me to the State of the Project. »Read More

Howdy. This is the first post on the Texas Noir Project homepage.

The Texas Noir Project is a set of stories set in a shared underworld created by Christopher A. Helton and P.A. “Pat” Humphreys.  Working together, they have created a shared world of drugs, crime, guns, dark cults, psychopaths, and people simply pushed to far. The first fruits of the project, The Brotherhood of the Hand and Once Upon a Time in Texas: An Anthology of Texas Noir are currently in draft and planning stages with publication planned for late 2010 early 2011. In the mean time, texasnoir.com will be the place to find info and status reports for this project.

As part of the greater baD kARmA INk family, The Texas Noir Project Webpage should cross post to the main bkI site.