Bloodsaints, Happy Head Update Announced

Sometimes we need just a little reminder. Thus today’s email contained this notice: Hello, Bloodsaints! I am sorry for the lack of news, I have posted some on Facebook, but not everyone follows me there. The anthology will be finishing up soon. I am editing the stories and finishing up a couple of mine. I had a few people back out on me, a writer and a friend who agreed to help in editing. Not to mention I have been dealing with a pandemic as I work in direct care for those with disabilities. Shit has been crazy to say the least on many fronts, but the anthology is still on track to finishing up.

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And so it continues, I want to thank all of you for your contributions and your patience! When I do this again, I will see about finding a team to split up the work so that way the process can move quicker. I know none of us was ready for 2020 to be so crazy, but it is what it is, and us writers must carry on!

The book in question is to be called BLOODSAINTS ANTHOLOGY (see July 2) and with, yes, a reprint from me originally published in WICKED MYSTIC for Spring 1996. It’s also to be a charity anthology with profits to go to COVID-19 relief with UNICEF, a worthy cause or so it seems to me, with stories to contain elements of either: Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk, Grindhouse, bizarro, or extreme dark psychological thriller. Or in other words, who could resist?

So my puck in the pack is a 2700-word opus called “Mr. Happy Head,” about a man who seems to find true happiness in others’ pain (when he was little he’d aspired to become a dentist’s hygienist, but ended up having to settle for being a serial killer) and, oh yes, he’s dead. Of which more will appear here as it becomes known.