Ghosts Revenge Takes on ���Little Willie���; Bubba Claus Bought by Museum Anthology
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:17 PM, James Ward Kirk wrote:�� ���Thank you for the poem, James.�� I loved it.�� I even chuckled aloud, something I can’t recall doing over a poem in a long time.�� I’ll be sending out the first batch of acceptances on Saturday.����� I thought it best to follow the publisher���s schedule on announcing the acceptance, which actually came latish Sunday evening along with a contract to print out and return today.
The poem in question is called ���Tit for Tat,��� one of a type sometimes known as ���Little Willies,��� about a naughty boy who either causes or comes to grief, resulting in the poet reacting with either glee, 
indifference, or sometimes drawing from it a tragically inappropriate moral.�� For more on Little Willies one can see below, February 6 2012.�� And what it was for is an anthology on vengeful spirits called GHOSTS REVENGE which, should Little Willie become a ghost, might be just the thing he���d try to get.
To be published by JWK Publications, GHOSTS REVENGE is still accepting submissions, both poetry and fiction to 4000 words (it will also have a section for flash up to 1000 words), but will be closing as soon as it���s filled, so speed may be called for.�� Guidelines can be found here.
And as for Little Willie, Publisher Kirk sent a follow-up email:�� ���Even though I chuckled, I admire the work.�� It’s perfect.���
Then even later Sunday night I got an acceptance from Joanne Merriam of UPPER RUBBER BOOT BOOKS for another fiction and poetry anthology to be published in 2016, again for a comedy piece although this time a story.�� As I introduced it in my cover letter last October, ���I hope you don’t mind a humorous, possibly crude in a few places, would-be swashbuckling SF submission for THE MUSEUM OF ALL THINGS AWESOME AND THAT GO BOOM — and with a chainsaw roar instead of a boom because the shotgun had the wrong shells — the attached ���Bubba Claus Conquers the Martians.����� It was originally published in HOUSTON, WE’VE GOT BUBBAS (Yard Dog Press, 2007) and also, one might note, offers a sideways tip of the hat to the holiday classic and perennial ���10 all-time worst movies��� listee SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS.�� Also zombies.���
So here���s the reply:�� ���Hi, James.�� Thanks so much for your submission.�� I’m accepting Bubba Claus Conquers the Martians for THE MUSEUM OF ALL THINGS AWESOME AND THAT GO BOOM, which will be published in 2016.�� I won’t announce the table of contents until I’ve received back all of the contracts, but you may feel free to announce your inclusion in the meantime.
���I’ll send along a contract in the next several days.”
This one, however, closed early last month.
