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Bram Stoker Had Grey Eyes

Grey, gray, grey, grey, definitely. Reading a Stoker biography and turns out he had grey eyes and loved it! So does one of my brothers, though I'm not sure about his feelings on having said grey eyes. Why do I bring it up? No reason.

"Scientist Mad" nominated for Best of the Net

So the good people at decomP nominated my story "Scientist Mad" for Best of the Net 2009. The other nods include:

Stories:

Adam Moorad - "Star-Spangled Enterprise"

Poems:

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - "A SHORT HISTORY OF UNUSUAL FISH"

Kristin Dombrowski - "Bog"

Kira Hesser - "inertia / inner / in her"

Heather Momyer - "Dead Dog"

Iftekhar Sayeed - "the early mangoes"

Buff Whitman-Bradley - "Aerial Intercourse"

Me on LITnIMAGE

So my story "Paternity" (that's right, fatherhood comes natural to me--though it hasn't right yet) is in the Summer 2009 issue of the illustrious LITnIMAGE. Not only does it have a great look as you'd expect considering the name (in this issue check out Leslie Ditto's bizarro cool work) but has also published some killer fiction in the past, including Jenny William's "The Fisherman's Wife", which won the 2008 Million Writers Award.

Why Would You Want to Kill the Author...Unless...

So the first issue of > kill author is up with great pieces from Barry Graham, Brad Green, and J. A. Tyler, among others. The editorial staff of > kill author has chosen to remain anonymous, claiming that the reputation of editors is getting in the way of something, what's that thing called that people don't care about having anymore...integrity?

Though the mag is literary in tone and the title comes from a Roland Barthes quote and though they deny being robots, I can only assume that they are,

Me on Flatmancrooked

So my story "Come, Come Away to Sumerville" is featured at Flatmancrooked. And if you haven't already, you should read their great blog with series like Deena Drewis' on the state of the short story--pretty good in case you're wondering and too lazy to read, which is sad because you are, in fact, reading this very second. Relax, you've stopped now.

Ever Get That Feeling?

You know the one. Where you've come to the end of a book and you were so engrossed in that fictional world that you can't pry your consciousness out of it. So you wander the real world fuzzy headed with a sense of anticipation that is never satisfied but only dissipates. Is this what old age will feel like?

Give the Show a Disembodied Hand

Went to see Evil Dead: The Musical last night, and it has restored my faith in musicals. In my humble opinion, zombies and lots of fake blood would improve any musical. Take The Sound of Music, for instance.

Me in DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2009

That's right, My braggadocio continues. Two in a row. This is old news, but I recently found out that my piece "Sermon on an Anthill" is included in the upcoming DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2009 . Here is a list of all the authors including the other, better ones:

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE (alphabetically):

DAVID AICHENBAUM
C. EDWARD ANABLE
CORBY ANDERSON
BILL BARR
RUSTY BARNES
LAUREN BECKER
ERIC BENNETT
CL BLEDSOE
BEN BROOKS
RANDALL BROWN
CHRISTY CALL (COVER ART)
DAVE CLAPPER
LYDIA COPELAND
SPENCER DEW
ROBER

Me on The Fiction Circus

So I'm back from Ireland just in time for the good times. One of the good times has to do with the job The Fiction Circus has done on the reprint of my story "Biopsy Doppelganger." And they did the works. It has this accompanying illustration by Pyotr Janecek, Madman. That would be more than anyone deserves, but there's more: an audio track of the story read by Goodman Carter and Cordula Nonchalant with a music track by the same Goodman Carter. But wait! There's more! The story will also

My Favorite Place in the Whole Wide World

Okay, maybe not THE favorite, but certainly ONE of the places I could just spend eternity. The other day, we visited Trinity College Library where the main attraction is the Book of Kells, but I feel like the Long Room always trumps it. And this time they had an excellent exhibit on the origins of the detective story called "The Body in the Library." Book heaven.[image error]