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Essay Progress, Next Projects
A little cross-platform blog-style update (to appear in a variety of places)
This is the final week to get the last section of my Meteorite-horror film essay done for Michele’s new book. I’ve a shade over 5,000 words written, and I am in the home stretch! But I am also in the toughest part, were all the theoretical bits come together. It’s been a long essay, but I know it will be amazing.
Projects afterwards:
Reviews for Heathen Harvest (as always)
Book review of The Art of Rube Goldberg for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Possibly a story about the Cats of Ulthar for an upcoming anthology
Prelimary research on an essay about Weird Westerns
And the big big one….
Submit my own book proposal in
My plan for the longest time has been to get 2 essays done for other journals/books before tackling a book myself. The time is coming very close that I need to step up and do that.
Aside from finishing my essay on meteorite-horror films, yesterday Michele, Jule, Adam and I recorded our 10th podcast episode of H.P. Lovecast, this time about C. Hall Thompson’s short story “The Spawn of the Green Abyss.” It was a lively dialog about a story not talked about much, and of course it can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RgiqLt5BI
I’ve submitted a review to Heathen Harvest about an upcoming vinyl about with some spoken word tracks of Lovecraft stories, so that should be published soon.
For personal fun stuff, on Saturday Michele and I went to Phat Con – a comic book convention held at Dave and Buster’s and put on by Phat Collectables. I got a Turok comic signed by Rob Liefeld, so that was awesome.
This upcoming February is going to be a crazy month, as Michele and I will be in a music video, going to some awards, going to the Long Beach Comic Con, along with general writing and other fun stuff. Exciting times!
This is the final week to get the last section of my Meteorite-horror film essay done for Michele’s new book. I’ve a shade over 5,000 words written, and I am in the home stretch! But I am also in the toughest part, were all the theoretical bits come together. It’s been a long essay, but I know it will be amazing.
Projects afterwards:
Reviews for Heathen Harvest (as always)
Book review of The Art of Rube Goldberg for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Possibly a story about the Cats of Ulthar for an upcoming anthology
Prelimary research on an essay about Weird Westerns
And the big big one….
Submit my own book proposal in
My plan for the longest time has been to get 2 essays done for other journals/books before tackling a book myself. The time is coming very close that I need to step up and do that.
Aside from finishing my essay on meteorite-horror films, yesterday Michele, Jule, Adam and I recorded our 10th podcast episode of H.P. Lovecast, this time about C. Hall Thompson’s short story “The Spawn of the Green Abyss.” It was a lively dialog about a story not talked about much, and of course it can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RgiqLt5BI
I’ve submitted a review to Heathen Harvest about an upcoming vinyl about with some spoken word tracks of Lovecraft stories, so that should be published soon.
For personal fun stuff, on Saturday Michele and I went to Phat Con – a comic book convention held at Dave and Buster’s and put on by Phat Collectables. I got a Turok comic signed by Rob Liefeld, so that was awesome.
This upcoming February is going to be a crazy month, as Michele and I will be in a music video, going to some awards, going to the Long Beach Comic Con, along with general writing and other fun stuff. Exciting times!
Blog Catchup - Progress on Projects and other Writings
Good day everyone!
It’s been an incredibly long time since I’ve updated my Goodreads blog. It’s not forgetfulness, business or even laziness (which this post will attest to is quite the opposite), but I simply wanted to keep my Call for Papers for my Neo-Peplum book up as long as possible as my most current post. Since I’ve closed the window for submissions, I feel like I can update this blog again! I have a lot of catchup to do since my last productivity post which was in…. February?!? Cripes!
First things first is that I have ANOTHER Call for papers open! Michele and I are the co-chairs of a brand new academic conference, the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, which is part of StokerCon! Our first conference will be in April 2017, but the window to submit abstracts closes at the end of December. So all you budding horror academics out there, please take a look at our CFP and consider submitting! The link to it is right here:
http://stokercon2017.horror.org/ann-r...
Secondly, I had my very first short story published! I don’t dabble in fiction much, but the opportunity came up, I gave it a shot, got accepted and got published! Very cool! It’s a story called “Nix’s Night About Town” and it appears in the anthology Kill Those Damn Cats: Cats of Ulthar – Lovecraftian Anthology. As many of yall know, I like to consider myself an aspiring Lovecraft scholar, being part of the HP Lovecast Podcast, so being able to write a story to contribute to the Lovecraft canon was a real honour. So please, check out the book and consider giving it a purchase! Here is the Amazon link to it:
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Those-Dam...
In terms of smaller writing projects, I have been productive in terms of writing reviews and articles for both Heathen Harvest and Fanbase Press. I invite you to check out my work at these websites and consider supporting them as well!
For Heathen Harvest:
Interview with the synthwave project Red Marker: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/10/16...
Review of the John Murphy Tribute compilation: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/09/18...
Review of Something to Drink 6 by the cabaret-industrial band Division 6: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/06/25...
Review of The Uncanny Valley by the synthwave project Perturbator: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/06/13...
Review of Grave Needs by the neofolk project Time Moth Eye: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/04/27...
Review of From the Ashes by the Dark Pop group Miel Noir: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/03/26...
Review of René Guénon et la tradition primordiale by the industrial project TSIDMZ: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/02/24...
For Fanbase Press:
Review of Ben-Hur (2016): http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/pre...
Review of Stan Drake and Leonard Starr’s Kelly Green – The Complete Collection: http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/blo...
Review of the Lovecraftian anthology Whispers from the Abyss Vol 2: http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/blo...
In regards to the HP Lovecast Podcast, we been plugging away with more sessions. We had technical issues these past two months, but expect to resume in November. Those can always be found at http://www.hplovecast.com
Currently write now, I am working on the introduction to my neo-peplum book, an essay on the TV show Stranger Things, a few book reviews, and possibly another essay on an old Silly Symphonies cartoon. For novel November, I may take a stab at this – but not for a novel, but a short story. I’ve taste the success of writing one short story, I’d like to do it again.
That is is for this time! Appreciate everyone’s support.
It’s been an incredibly long time since I’ve updated my Goodreads blog. It’s not forgetfulness, business or even laziness (which this post will attest to is quite the opposite), but I simply wanted to keep my Call for Papers for my Neo-Peplum book up as long as possible as my most current post. Since I’ve closed the window for submissions, I feel like I can update this blog again! I have a lot of catchup to do since my last productivity post which was in…. February?!? Cripes!
First things first is that I have ANOTHER Call for papers open! Michele and I are the co-chairs of a brand new academic conference, the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, which is part of StokerCon! Our first conference will be in April 2017, but the window to submit abstracts closes at the end of December. So all you budding horror academics out there, please take a look at our CFP and consider submitting! The link to it is right here:
http://stokercon2017.horror.org/ann-r...
Secondly, I had my very first short story published! I don’t dabble in fiction much, but the opportunity came up, I gave it a shot, got accepted and got published! Very cool! It’s a story called “Nix’s Night About Town” and it appears in the anthology Kill Those Damn Cats: Cats of Ulthar – Lovecraftian Anthology. As many of yall know, I like to consider myself an aspiring Lovecraft scholar, being part of the HP Lovecast Podcast, so being able to write a story to contribute to the Lovecraft canon was a real honour. So please, check out the book and consider giving it a purchase! Here is the Amazon link to it:
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Those-Dam...
In terms of smaller writing projects, I have been productive in terms of writing reviews and articles for both Heathen Harvest and Fanbase Press. I invite you to check out my work at these websites and consider supporting them as well!
For Heathen Harvest:
Interview with the synthwave project Red Marker: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/10/16...
Review of the John Murphy Tribute compilation: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/09/18...
Review of Something to Drink 6 by the cabaret-industrial band Division 6: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/06/25...
Review of The Uncanny Valley by the synthwave project Perturbator: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/06/13...
Review of Grave Needs by the neofolk project Time Moth Eye: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/04/27...
Review of From the Ashes by the Dark Pop group Miel Noir: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/03/26...
Review of René Guénon et la tradition primordiale by the industrial project TSIDMZ: https://heathenharvest.org/2016/02/24...
For Fanbase Press:
Review of Ben-Hur (2016): http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/pre...
Review of Stan Drake and Leonard Starr’s Kelly Green – The Complete Collection: http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/blo...
Review of the Lovecraftian anthology Whispers from the Abyss Vol 2: http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/blo...
In regards to the HP Lovecast Podcast, we been plugging away with more sessions. We had technical issues these past two months, but expect to resume in November. Those can always be found at http://www.hplovecast.com
Currently write now, I am working on the introduction to my neo-peplum book, an essay on the TV show Stranger Things, a few book reviews, and possibly another essay on an old Silly Symphonies cartoon. For novel November, I may take a stab at this – but not for a novel, but a short story. I’ve taste the success of writing one short story, I’d like to do it again.
That is is for this time! Appreciate everyone’s support.
