The future, near and distant

With COLD TO THE TOUCH now shipping people have already started asking me "what's next?"

What's next? It took me six years to get this into print. How about enjoying it for a bit everyone?

That said, I'm working on another short collection and then, if the Fates are willing, that novel everyone is urging me to write. I'm still not convinced I'll ever want to be a novelist, but it seems like it's a wise thing, career-wise, to attempt to write one. There's been a little behind-the-scenes interest in seeing something from me in that regard.