"It's Going Down for Real..."
So, yet another long stretch of radio silence, in which a lot happened: March proved a highly busy time for me. I was writing and sending out stuff left and right, it felt (I think I sent out a total of seven stories to various venues). The more one sends out, the better one's chance of getting published, and quite a few things stuck, including:
-My first ever professional poem, "My Father's Shade", inspired by the life, death and strange afterlife on earth of my seven times great-grandfather Hugh Jones, an English born blacksmith and farmer who settled in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1650s and whose name turns up in the 'spectral evidence' for two different cases in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The poem is appearing in FunDead Publications's "Entombed in Verse: An Epitaph for Salem, which is now available for pre-order, with a release date slated for this summe.
-"Something Eating At You", inspired by "The Colour out of Space" and some weird-looking vegetables I spotted at the Topsfield Fair, was picked up by The H. P. Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum. Still need to dot the i's and cross the t's on the contract, but watch this space.
-"Curiosity Shop", my first ever published story, featuring a teenaged H.P. Lovecraft and a mysterious Book Shop That Wasn't There Before, got picked up as my first-ever reprint by Digital Publishing Corp, as a soon-to-be released ebook of flash fiction.
-My first ever vampire horror-comedy "Food Substitution" was picked up for Macabre Maine's "Bite ME" anthology of vampire tales, due out at Halloween. In this tale, an older woman has a tangle with a vampire, and she hopes that the change will do her health - and her grocery bill - some good... with mixed results. I've often said we need more horror set in grocery stores (I work in one, Trust me when I say they are *terrifying* places...), and by jove, I've made good on that desire.
-"In the Path of the Trees", in which a man and his daughter encounter an entity guarding the trees in a forest of the White Mountains, is available in Awen 96, from Atlantean Publishing
And last but not least:
-"The Wings at His Window" was picked up by Off the Beaten Path Press as part of a series which I've tentatively titled "The Dreamer of Providence". In this first installment, a very young HPL unsettles his mother with some of his peculiar sketches of a creature he calls a "night gaunt", and there might be more to it than a mere childish scribble. I have more tales to come in this series, so as before, keep an eye out for more information as I can supply it.
Whwooo... If it sounds like a lot, well, it is! It's certainly kept me busy, to say nothing of giving me a rush of emotions: mostly excitement, but also a certain amount of trepidation. It's all getting real, and it's all going down quite intensely and steadily. Wish me luck that it all goes well, and as the tales emerge in print, I hope you all enjoy them!
-My first ever professional poem, "My Father's Shade", inspired by the life, death and strange afterlife on earth of my seven times great-grandfather Hugh Jones, an English born blacksmith and farmer who settled in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1650s and whose name turns up in the 'spectral evidence' for two different cases in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The poem is appearing in FunDead Publications's "Entombed in Verse: An Epitaph for Salem, which is now available for pre-order, with a release date slated for this summe.
-"Something Eating At You", inspired by "The Colour out of Space" and some weird-looking vegetables I spotted at the Topsfield Fair, was picked up by The H. P. Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum. Still need to dot the i's and cross the t's on the contract, but watch this space.
-"Curiosity Shop", my first ever published story, featuring a teenaged H.P. Lovecraft and a mysterious Book Shop That Wasn't There Before, got picked up as my first-ever reprint by Digital Publishing Corp, as a soon-to-be released ebook of flash fiction.
-My first ever vampire horror-comedy "Food Substitution" was picked up for Macabre Maine's "Bite ME" anthology of vampire tales, due out at Halloween. In this tale, an older woman has a tangle with a vampire, and she hopes that the change will do her health - and her grocery bill - some good... with mixed results. I've often said we need more horror set in grocery stores (I work in one, Trust me when I say they are *terrifying* places...), and by jove, I've made good on that desire.
-"In the Path of the Trees", in which a man and his daughter encounter an entity guarding the trees in a forest of the White Mountains, is available in Awen 96, from Atlantean Publishing
And last but not least:
-"The Wings at His Window" was picked up by Off the Beaten Path Press as part of a series which I've tentatively titled "The Dreamer of Providence". In this first installment, a very young HPL unsettles his mother with some of his peculiar sketches of a creature he calls a "night gaunt", and there might be more to it than a mere childish scribble. I have more tales to come in this series, so as before, keep an eye out for more information as I can supply it.
Whwooo... If it sounds like a lot, well, it is! It's certainly kept me busy, to say nothing of giving me a rush of emotions: mostly excitement, but also a certain amount of trepidation. It's all getting real, and it's all going down quite intensely and steadily. Wish me luck that it all goes well, and as the tales emerge in print, I hope you all enjoy them!
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