microcosm twitterzine

Check out editor Stephen M. Wilson's new twitterzine for poetry, called microcosms. I have a poem in the latest "issue" ("twissue"?) released today and more to come soon. If you don't know what a "twitterzine" is, then read this article.

scrawling

I've added a new area to the gorelets.com gallery, called "scrawl", to share visual texts and art work that doesn't quite fit anywhere. Drop on by.

2009 Stoker Award Winning Books

The 2009 Bram Stoker Award winners were announced by the Horror Writer's Association at World Horror Convention in Brighton, England, last weekend. I read almost all of these titles and I can vouch that they are superlative reads. (In fact, I lauded Lucy Snyder's poetry-winning book here in The Goreletter). See the HWA's announcement for a complete list...congratulations to all the winners! I contributed work to two of the books (though the editors, not me, rightfully get the awards!). These are pretty amazing books to be a part of, so I want to celebrate them here (and share some breaking…

Cool April Fool

Dark Regions Press pulled a cool April Fool prank yesterday when their newsletter announced the Crypt Keeper would now be their spokesman, after reading my book, Proverbs for Monsters... My own April Fool's scare was pretty lame. But you can still see it on my twitter profile. Visit Dark Regions Press for all sorts of great books that ARE worthy of the Crypt Keeper's time. I suspect their collection, Nostradumus' Fate, will be out in the months ahead. Keep you're eyes on this press....they're doing great things. In fact, if you subscribe to their newsletter you not only get funky…

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." - C.S. Lewis (died 1963)

Ignorance Is Bliss (For The Mole People)