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WestSide Books published my novel Cracking the Ice in January. For more information, see my Books page.
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“Tiffany Gets Her Boobs” is a Kindle Humor bestseller.
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Pentucket Publishing has published my crime caper novel Bubba Goes for Broke under the pen name David Bawdy. (The pen name is to distinguish it from Cracking the Ice.) It’s available now in all electronic formats with a paper version to come. See my Writing as David Bawdy page for more information.
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The anthology Ghostology has bought my short story “Automobile Graveyard,” a ghost story that came out of the only serious car accident I’ve ever been in. A lunatic driving over a hundred miles an hour swerved into my family’s car and drove us off the road.
This story asked the scary question, “What if?”
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My short story “The Floater” has sold to the anthology Bride of the Golem. I’ll provide more information as it becomes available.
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The anthology Music For Another World includes my story “Blue Note Heaven.” This story puts together Jutta, a woman from the Dark Ages who still loves her Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and a contrarian jazz musician whose idea of Heaven doesn’t match his hosts.
Reviews of the anthology have been strong, including one in SFF Chronicles that said:
“David H. Hendrickson’s ‘Blue Note Heaven’ is one of the anthology’s more original stories.”
In Interzone #231, Andy Hedgecock wrote:
One of the most exciting and original [anthologies] I’ve read in years…. The collection offers a host of absorbing, entertaining and thought provoking stories…. An exceptional anthology. Ten of the nineteen stories are astonishing; eight are simply impressive.
Meredith Wiggins wrote in The Future Fire Reviews:
It is possibly a testament to the interesting mixture of authors that the themes explored in the collection themselves are diverse: loss, obsession, desire, solitude and redemption, among others…. I found in its pages new ways to hear, see, and experience music, and a new appreciation for why it is such a powerful art form.
Author Jaine Fenn wrote:
The unifying theme of music has resulted in a delightfully wide range of styles and genres (slipstream, ghost stories, alternate history, fantasy and science fiction to name but a few), settings (ranging from deep space through gritty suburban streets to the Christian heaven) and emotional effects.
