2nd Alien Buddha Corrections Sent Back; Partial Blog Update on Vamps

From November 6: Yesterday’s email’s subject stood out: THE ALIEN BUDDHA’S BEST OF 2024 Preview. Hmmmm.

So, biting, I opened it. The message: Here is a first preview of our Best of 2024 anthology.

I understand that there being no TOC yet might make it hard to find your respective chapter. Everything is in order on how your names are listed on the back cover. But if you cannot find your section using that, I will be posting an updated draft with a table of contents sometime soon.

So moving along, just yesterday (well, the day before given my having to post these at the library), December 3: Here is the final preview of our best of 2024. And there had been changes since proof number 1, in my case especially an all new entry under my name. Where the November version included my AVOID SEEING A MOUSE story, “Good Taste” (cf., again, November 6), this one also included a poem, “Night People,” from VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE). And no mistakes that I saw in the pieces themselves, except that the now-included contents list itself pointed to the poem alone! Had the story, then, been bounced?

It was confusing — the contents were by author name only and, yes, the new poem was on the page listed for my name. A substitution?

Well, mystery solved quickly enough (I’ve gained sophistication in matters like this) by doing a word search on my name: the story was there, cleverly hiding in front of the since added poem. So back the proof went with my suggestion, just change the page number a few pages forward to where “Good Taste” began, and then all would follow.

Changing gears now, one more correction, on this blog itself, but not wholly completed. In the center column, down past the fiction collections and chapbooks, is the picture for VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE), which now can be clicked to the Amazon entry for the new ALIEN BUDDHA edition. The incomplete part, though: WordPress has changed some of its rules, it would seem, and until I can figure out how to change it too (or possibly never, whichever comes first) the picture will remain that of the old, defunct edition.