“In the Kung-Fu Grip of the Invisible Hand”

So, my friends, did you notice my new web banner?

Very much like my old web banner, of course. Same basic illustration and color scheme. But I asked Ted Schluenderfritz, who has illustrated the covers of all my books as well as done the illustrations for this site, to put my name in the banner. Part of the rebranding of the site, which I used to call The Comic Muse.

Anyway, let me know what you think about the banner.

And too, let me know if you can guess the identities of the famous writers depicted in the sidebar.

Meanwhile, I’m happy to announce that I finally got my hands on a copy of my short story, “In the King-Fu Grip of the Invisible Hand,” published in the Christmas issue of GILBERT, the magazine of the American Chesterton Society (that’s G.K. Chesterton). It’s a humorous tale about a young man torn between his business interests and his hankering for the virtues of a simpler life.

Ted Schluenderfritz also illustrates for GILBERT and here’s the illustration he did for my story:

And here’s a screen shot of the first page of the story:

The image above is of Adam Smith (1723-1790), theorist of the “invisible hand,” which is reproduced courtesy of the Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.