Saturday, July 25, 2020

Another Publisher Falls

It is with great sadness that I see Gehenna and Hinnom Books close their doors.  It showed great promise and churned out 2 beautifully published books and a few magazine issues, one of which I had the privilege of being a part of.  C. P. Dunphey was great to work with.  But it just takes one life crisis to throw everything out of whack and even worse when more just pile on until you are drowning.  Gehenna and Hinnom should be the last thing on his mind and I believe he made a good decision in closing it at this time.  Family and health should, of course, come first.  I wish him and his family the absolute best and hope to see Gehenna and Hinnom Books open its doors once more in the future.  Here is his closing announcement.

With that being said, The Withering was released of its contract and will not be published with Gehenna and Hinnom Books.  To be honest, with the lack of communication from the publisher for so long, I was afraid this would happen and sent off The Withering to another publisher months ago.  I still await their judgment.       

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Residents of Innsmouth


My copy of Residents of Innsmouth edited by Russell Smeaton has finally arrived from across the pond.  Residents of Innsmouth was a Kickstarter project created by Russell Smeaton to give life to the residents of H. P. Lovecraft's infamous town of Innsmouth.


Each art piece Russell has created represents a character and a writer creates and develops the character through a story in prose or poetry.  I have three characters with three respective poems, Her Hair is Sunlight, Her Hair is Moonlight, and For Charms, a Crown.




Phil Breach
Scott Couturier
Ashley Dioses
John Paul Fitch
Jill Hand
Shayne Keen
John Linwood Grant
KA Opperman
Alan Sessler
William Tea
Sarah Walker




 

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Spaceports & Spidersilk June 2020 by Hiraeth Publishing


My poem reprint, Night Play, appears in the June issue of Spacesports and Spidersilk by Hiraeth Publishing.



Table of Contents

Stories
Flicker by Emmes Duihar
A Boy and His Dragonfly by Tyree Campbell
Jessica Doubt by Anne E. Johnson
Beach Reads by Hugh J. O'Donnell
Space Ballerina by Jason E. Maddux
The Mermaid's Tea Party by Tom Howard
Chasing Snoutfires in the Nantiry Nebula by Jeremy Vance
Salt and Sorcery by Pamela Love

Poetry
Tanka by Lisa Timpf
Off We Go by Lauren McBride
Out to the Sea by Brian Gene Olson
The Fairy Kitten Prowls by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
Dancing with the Stars by T. R. Jones
What is the Meaning of Life? by William Shaw
Night Play by Ashley Dioses

Illustrations
A Boy and His Dragonfly by Laura Givens
Fairy on Fairytale Books by Vonnie Winslow Crist

Features
Who?


Mr. Miyagi's Soggy Cereal by Hybrid Sequence Media


My poems, Pulse and Twitch, appear in Mr. Miyagi's Soggy Cereal by Hybrid Sequence Media.  Pulse and Twitch will appear in Darkest Days and Haunted Ways.


"In a likely fashion of what Hybrid Sequence Media's mission statement says: we take all forms of writing and bring it together in this tribute anthology to honor a friend [Jordan Krall]. This book is far from a soggy breakfast, it's everything mom told you would rot your teeth out, something to cry about, have a few laughs, or maybe even ponder over the words and see the bigger picture in itself."



Table of Contents



The Fifth Di... by Hiraeth Publishing


My reprint poem, Ligeia, appears in the June issue of The Fifth Di... by Hiraeth Publishing. 



Table of Contents

Features
The First Word from the Editor
Interview with Lauren McBride
Who's Who?

Short Stories
A Horse and Her Boy by Vonnie Winslow Crist
JJ by Gregory L. Norris
Sister, Fly or Die by Simone Kern
The Grief Counselor by Debby Feo
Clio's New User by Jason Lairamore
The Contenders by Tyree Campbell

Poetry
Astrology by Holly Day
First Contact by John Grey
Fairy Wine by M. X. Kelly
From Your Friends in Advertising by John Grey
Crying Baby by Peter MacQuarrie
Ligeia by Ashley Dioses