Man, I've been busy lately! Here's some of what I'm doing:

 - finishing up a book called "Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks from Chicago History"

 - Doing more podcasts - we did a new one for Chicago Unbelievable the other night, tromping around the abandoned graveyard once used by the old asylum (and where one of the jerks in the "jerks book" was dumped. It was really spooky! I'm now engaged in a new "Ghosts of Chicago" book (publisher TBA very soon), so I've been kicking up my ghost-busting schedule a notch. I never seem to FIND much on a ghost hunt, but I'm enough of a skeptic that I don't really expect to. I don't want to write about places I haven't been, though!  This old graveyard extended clear out to the grocery store parking lot nearby, and is estimated to be home to about 38k bodies, most of which are probably still there. Here's a pic from our trip there - they yellow streak is just a falling snowflake, but this is one creepy snowflake pic. 
In somewhat related news, there's a new Chicago Unbelievable ebook about "The Curse of HH Holmes." Rumors have gone around for years that everyone involved in the trial of Holmes (the "Devil in the White City" guy), died or came into misfortune after the trial. I thought that was probably just something pulp writers made up years later, but it really was a big story in papers in the years after the execution; papers identified about 30 victims (in addition to the guy who ratted him out, who was later shot to death in Chicago and buried in - you guessed it - the old asylum graveyard pictured above!) The mini ebook is only a buck. My next Holmes project is going to be reconstructing his 1895 trial (I'm about halfway done; it'll be a full-length legal thriller) and speaking at an event with his great great grandson at the end of the month.  I'm of the opinion that stories about the guy are greatly exaggerated (his estimated number of victims goes up by another hundred or two every Halloween), but researching him is one heck of a rabbit hole. 

Oh! And there's fiction news! My attempt to write all this ghosty-business into a funny middle grade book has finally resulted in a full manuscript, which my agent will be sending out soon. I also have a YA book about a rock and roll banshee out on submit at the moment that I hope someone really lets me have fun with - I want to make videos of the band and pretend it's a real thing and see if we fool anybody.

So, I'm keeping busy. I have 3-4 more books that I NEED to write this year, and I'm doing 4-5 ghost tours a week (and having a blast on them)