New story in Nasty Snips…and a Talebones Announcement!

THE BIG NEWS FOR me fiction-wise this winter is having my short story “Mirror Image” appear in the British anthology Nasty Snips, a collection of “short-short” stories which include tales from D.F. Lewis, Gerard Daniel Houarner, Cathy Buburuz, Shikhar Dixit and John Platt, and many others. To order the book, check out the Pendragon Press Publishing website or Amazon.co.uk. Coming in early 2000, I’m proud to be taking over the Talebones “Bug Music” column for…

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I’m now a Fiction Editor at DARK REGIONS!

WELL, SUMMERS ARE traditionally slow times for both acceptances and writing for me. I was recently in San Francisco for 9 days on business and began a new fantasy story there about a woman and the moon. (It’s actually based in part on a conversation I held with a fascinating British lady on the plane going out there.) So what news do I have? I’m currently copy editing a new Joe Lansdale collection for Necro…

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“Pumpkin Head” published in GRUE

SOME GOOD NEWS over the past couple months! In March, the latest issue of Grue Magazine appeared, including my “Pumpkin Head” story as its lead-off tale. And this past week, the April 1999 issue of E-Scape appeared, including my story “Grandma Wanda’s Belly Jelly.” In other “web” news, I signed an agreement a few weeks ago with audiohighway.com to host “spoken word” versions of some of my newspaper Pop Stops music columns. The first batch…

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New Year… New Position at Dark Regions… and a new Blog

WELL, TIME TO CLEAR the decks. I’ve decided to clear the Journal plate of 1997-1998 entries and start anew.  And so we begin… So what’s going on with me? A LOT! I seem to be on a fiction glut of late. At the start of the year, Bobbi Sinha-Morey offered me the chance to help her and her publisher-husband Joe Morey as an Assistant Fiction Editor for Dark Regions magazine. So suddenly, after contributing to…

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