Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show

Kyle and I attended our 12pm author signing slot at the Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Collectors Show this year.  It was great to see old friends, browse the various vendors, and get some books signed.  

(John Shirley)

(Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven)

In an attempt to scale down the book load in our home, I only picked up a couple of books that caught my eye.  I was able to get Hal Bodner to sign the Gothic collection and Shadows and Verse was already signed by a number of contributing authors.

I helped spiffy up our table by bringing Halloween decor to highlight the Halloween poetry books.  I thought it was a nice, fun touch.

(The Withering and Darkest Days and Haunted Ways)

I had hoped Diary of a Vampyress would have been ready to debut here, but alas, it will have to wait until next year.  

(KA's Halloween Poetry Trilogy)

(Past the Glad and Sunlit Season)

 

(Jackanapes Press)

 

"On a Dreamland's Moon" Recitation by Morgan Scorpion

I was quite surprised yet honored when Julia Morgan asked if she could recite my poem, "On a Dreamland's Moon," for her YouTube channel (Morgan Scorpion).  

Her voice lends an ethereal quality to the story that instantly captivates your attention.  Her channel is brimming with years worth of delectable recitations from weird and horror masters such as Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Allan Poe to beloved contemporaries like Richard Gavin and John Linwood Grant.  I am honored to join these fine storytellers on her channel.       

("On a Dreamland's Moon")

For a deeper look into "On a Dreamland's Moon", author Bobby Derie wrote an analysis of it on his blog, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein: The Undiscovered Mythos.

You can find “On A Dreamland’s Moon” in Black Wings VI: New Tales of Lovecraftian Terror (2017), as well as in my first poetry collection, Diary of a Sorceress.