Addition to WHC Poetry Panel — C’est Moi; Spring Star*Line Received

Good news!  The (almost — there may still be small adjustments to be made for occasional scheduling glitches) final 2014 World Horror Convention schedule has been unveiled.  So naturally I scrolled down to the poetry panel and it wasn’t there.  Say what?  But a bit more scrolling revealed that it had simply been moved back a few hours, to 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and I’m now listed on it.  I’m still on the early-bat vampire panel (official title: “How to Suck the Best: Writing Vampire Fiction”) on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., too, as well as the Mass Autograph Signing on Friday evening from 6 to 9 p.m. though, recalling that last year they divided the session into two shifts, it may be I’ll actually be there at a table for only a portion of the time.

And one thing more.  Recalling that my short story collection, THE TEARS OF ISIS (obligatory plug), is up for a possible Stoker® so I’m committed to be at the Saturday evening Award Ceremony anyway (with banquet, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.; award-giving only from 7:30 on), I have also been named an official presenter with Mike Arnzen (who’s also on the poetry panel.  Coincidence?  I doubt it) for the best Poetry Collection award.

Then in other news, the Spring STAR*LINE arrived in today’s mail (cf. April 15, et al.).  My polecat at this poetry picnic is a shortie on page 6, “You Can Never Go Back,” really perhaps more an aphorism addressing a real problem some may have when they try to return home.