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I knew I’d feel the itch again at some point. Losing my shot at Angry Robot books with Hash reminded me that life is a game of constant production, and really, I’ve always envisioned Hash as one of a (loose) trilogy. With great pleasure, I announce the start of work on Pulp, the second in this series of books.

True to the title, Pulp will be tilted toward noir-style storytelling and aesthetic but still within the world and timeline that housed Hash‘s City of the Future. Where did it start? It started with my fascination with the unsung hero of the noir world: the Hotel Detective (link, only mildly related).

And just to kick things off, I present a few notes that I’d taken over the last day or two about some of the twists and turns:

• “Hotels” are actually ██████: the detectives themselves reside in ██████, as ███ but hold a single ████
• Tommy and Marissa, after ██████, stumble into this world in the ███████
• The big reveal: The world has actually been ███████
• “Andy” is a mysterious ██████.
• Andy is thought by Tommy and Marissa to be ████, but then discover he’s ████████ by ███████ in Hash.

As you can see, there’s a lot to ████ and I’m incredibly ██████ to ████ as soon as possible. Stay tuned, and of course, I’ll be working out other angles for Hash to see the light of day.