The Whitechapel Project

Cover of "Close Encounters of the Urban Kind"

Long story short: an anthology I’ve been published in is open for pre-orders. Buying a copy would be awesome.

Details: Pre-ordering opened today for Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, the fiction anthology by Apex Book Company. This anthology features my short story, “Gloomy Sunday.” It’s about a washed-up private detective, his government-employed ex-girlfriend, and a song that kills people. While the story isn’t directly tied to any events in Whitechapel, it does share elements with it (most notably the Lacuna organization, a first-person narration style, and a tendency for me to be really horrible to my protagonists).

The special pre-order price is $15.95, and the book will be available for sale in April 2010. If you’ve been a fan of Whitechapel so far, picking up a copy of this book would be a great way to support me.

The link to the pre-order page is here:

http://www.apexbookstore.com/collections/frontpage/products/close-encounters-of-the-urban-kind-edited-by-jennifer-brozek

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Previously on Whitechapel

Mister Rich, Six’s mysterious benefactor, was shot and fell unconscious in a gunfight, before Six himself was stunned with a taser shotgun shell. Three days later, Six awoke in a hotel room under the name “M. John Druitt,” which turned out to be the name of one of the suspects for the notorious Jack the Ripper back in 1888. As Six struggled to cope with the revelation that he’s somehow connected to the serial killer, a strange woman mutely informs him that he’s once again being looked for, and beckons for him to follow her. He goes with her to her rental car, when he hears the engine on a black van start in the hotel parking lot.

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Not to be outdone, Super Agent of Whitechapel Matt Timm has also started a Whitechapel translation project — this time, into Spanish! If you’ve been looking for your favorite amnesiac psychic killer en espanol, add this baby to your RSS feed:

http://proyectowhitechapel.blogspot.com/

“The Cell” is also already translated and posted:

http://proyectowhitechapel.blogspot.com/2010/01/episodio-01-la-celda.html

Between last night (when I wrote my post-mortem) and this morning, this interview about Whitechapel at Ergofiction magazine went live:

http://www.ergofiction.com/2010/01/cafe-wednesday-eddy-webb/

Go check it out!

Before I start, a few pieces of news.

First off, as you’ve no doubt noticed by now, this is nearly a week late, and episode twelve will be similarly behind. I go into some detail over at my personal blog, but the long and the short of it is that my grandmother-in-law passed away very suddenly, and I had to drop everything to deal with that. If all goes well, I should be able to get episode twelve written and up by next Wednesday. Between illness and personal tragedy, 2010 is not off to a great start.

Secondly, I now have a regular Thursday evening obligation, so I’ll be moving these post-mortems back to Wednesday. Since the voting will still be going on, I’m going to drop that segment unless it’s relevant to the episode I’m discussing.

Finally, in a bit of good news, the cover for the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind has been revealed. I’ve sold a story to this (“Gloomy Sunday”), and I’ll pass along the pre-order information once I have it.

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Previously on Whitechapel

After Six escaped from the Whitechapel Project, his mysterious comrade-in-arms, Mister Rich, was shot and fell unconscious. In trying to escape from two unknown men in a black van, Six ended up outside an emergency room before facing down two police officers and being stunned with a taser shotgun shell. After lying unconscious for three days, he awoke in a hotel room under an assumed name – M. John Druitt. A quick Internet search combined with the events of recent days pointed him to a startling conclusion: he is the most notorious serial killer in history, Jack the Ripper. He starts to leave the hotel in a panic when he notices someone watching him.

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I hate to do this again, but I’ve been sick the past few days. I have a draft of episode eleven done, but the past couple of days I just haven’t had the energy or cohesion to focus on an edit pass, nor am I in any good condition to record. So I’m going to try to get it edited, recorded, and up on Friday or Saturday, which will leave a shorter voting period (but since it seems many of the votes come in on the last few days anyhow, I don’t think this’ll be a big blow).

I know this is the second episode in a row that’s been delayed. I don’t anticipate this becoming a habit — it’s just a weird set of circumstances that’s been hitting me a bit hard recently.

Because of a big plot development in episode ten, I’m putting the entire post-mortem behind a cut. Normally I assume you’ve already read or listened to the episode before you read the post-mortem, but in this case you definitely should if you want to avoid spoilers.

You have been warned.

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Agent of Whitechapel Alex Cochrane — who I mercilessly murdered in Episode 7 — has started translating all of the Whitechapel episodes in French! I’ll post links to each French version at the bottom of the English episodes, but you can follow along at the blog here:

Projet: Whitechapel

Épisode 01 – La cellule

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Previously on Whitechapel

Six escaped from the Whitechapel Project, thanks to the help of the mysterious Mister Rich. Although Six got some clues to the nature of his past, he had more questions than answers when Mister Rich was shot by a man masquerading as a police officer. A high-speed chase with real police officers and a van with two unknown men led to a showdown at a hospital, during which Six was knocked unconscious. He awoke in an expensive hotel room with a note from someone named “Elizabeth” and a wake-up call from the front desk that referred to him by an unfamiliar name.

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