Scalin’s SKULL A DAY

Here's a fantastic image from Noah Scalin's five-year running SKULL-A-DAY blog, book, and other diverse creative projects. Lots of great art and ideas on his site, which has just been a great, sustained mill of morbid creativity with such a sustained commitment to the project. My favorite, I think, is the image (pictured above) of a "Skull of Brains" that Scalin made by arranging actual brain slices encased in acrylic at the wonderful Mutter Museum. See his blog entry on the project for a behind-the-scenes video of its construction and more shots of this big, brainy skull. I think a…

Photos from Frostburg Small / Regional Press Fair 2011

Had fun in Frostburg this weekend for the 2011 Western Maryland Small and Regional Press Festival. The fun folks I got to hang with are in the photos: my co-editor for Many Genres, Heidi Ruby Miller and I sat on a panel with Courtney Ruffner (editor, Florida English) on "Publishing Basics"; authors Jason Jack Miller, Jessica McHugh and Post Mortem Press editor Eric Beebe and I all sat on a panel about science fiction, fantasy and horror; and two of my publishers were on hand -- Jennifer Barnes and John Edward Lawson from Raw Dog Screaming Press, and Cynthia McCloud…