Writing Updates

I'm still waiting on the Introduction and possibly a few more blurbs for The Withering.  The artwork by Mutartis Boswell is coming along amazingly.  The cover is pretty much done, the back has been worked on, and a few interior illustrations have been played with.  This should be a beautifully dark book for all your black little hearts.  And sorry, can't show you yet.

While that is being tinkered with, I have been working on my next collection, Diary of a Vampyress.  As of today, there are currently 50 poems in it.  My goal is to have around 80.  So I'm getting there.  I'm trying to cover a vast range of various Gothic tropes and creatures and atmospheres.  We'll see how I do.

Ten Weird Writers to Save Us All in 2019 by Silent Motorist Media

I'm not sure how this happened, but I've made it onto this list of Ten Weird Writers to Save Us All in 2019 by Silent Motorist Media.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate this.  I hope that those reading this list will consider checking out poetry as well as the prose mentioned therein.  Poetry has just as much a place in the world of weird and horror as prose does.  

Farah Rose Smith

Sarah Walker

Ashley Dioses

Charles Austin Muir

Leo X. Robertson

Brooke Warra

Gwendolyn Kiste

Kristine Ong Muslim

S. E. Casey

Rebecca Gransden

Summer Solstice 2019 Issue by Eternal Haunted Summer

My poem, Like a Fixed Star, is now live on Eternal Haunted Summer for the Summer Solstice issue.  Like a Fixed Star will appear in The Withering.

Here is the ToC:

Poetry
16 Psyche — Ode to an Asteroid by Marianne Gambaro
Algol’s Lamp by Scott J. Couturier
Apotheosis by Nicole LeBeouf
Aurvandil’s Toe by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Fair Astraea by Avra Margariti
Fallen Star by Clay F. Johnson
Flame-Mistress of the Morning Star by K.A. Opperman
Ganymede by Andrea Gustafson
Goddess by Kim Malinowski
How to Honor Sirius by Mary Soon Lee
Inanna-Sig, Evening Star Inanna by Hayley Arrington
Like a Fixed Star by Ashley Dioses
Love of the Gods by Kim Whysall-Hammond
A Mask of Ice by Deborah L. Davitt
The Trickster by Denise Dumars

Fiction
Ad Astra by Chris Wheatley
The Helmet of Pluto by Maxwell Gold
If You Were by Gerri Leen

Special Feature
Du’s Voyage by Lorna Smithers

Interviews
Daniel Cureton, editor of Enheduanna
Galina Krasskova, author of Living Runes and A Modern Guide to Heathenry
Erin Lale, author of Asatru for Beginners
Dagulf Loptson, author of Playing with Fire

Reviews
Candle, Thread and Flute by Kathryn Hinds [reviewed by Hayley Arrington]
City of Crows by Clara Clouson [reviewed by Rebecca Buchanan]
Plant and Fungus Totems: Connect with Spirits of Field, Forest, and Garden by Lupa [reviewed by Tahni Nikitins]
The Seed of Yggdrasil: Deciphering the Hidden Messages in Old Norse Myths  by Maria Kvilhaug [reviewed by Erin Lale]
Spells, Salt, and Steel: Season One by Gail Z. Martin and Larry N. Martin [reviewed by Rebecca Buchanan]
The Study of Witchcraft by Deborah Lipp [reviewed by Tahni Nikitins]

Poem Acceptance

My poem, Strung by a Noose, will appear in the final Test Patterns anthology, Weird Westerns, by Planet X Publications.  Here is the full ToC:

Ashley Dioses – Strung by a Noose
S. L. Edwards – The Older Laws of John Armitage
Scott Couturier – Buzzard-man
John Ghost – The Terror at Cleopatra Hill
Thomas Joyce – No God’s Country, No Man’s Land
Jill Hand – The Burning Women of Glory
Christopher Slatsky – Justo’s Mummy Magic Capac Cuna Medicine Company
GD Dearborn – Daltrey Returns
Dustin Chisam – Into the Emerald Frontier
Sarah Walker – The Foreigner
John Paul Fitch – Gut Shot
Erica Ruppert – Oh, Bury Me Not
Sean M. Thompson – Dark Sky Above
Max Stanton – The Transported Man
Alan Sessler – The Ogre West
Can Wiggins – Sweet Betsey from P.I.K.E.
Zoltan Komor – Planted Bullets and Coffin Whores
K. A. Opperman – The Sheriff and the Succubus
Duane Pesice – In the Name

Strung by a Noose will also appear in The Withering.