The List

I forgot how to breathe earlier today...

I saw a link to Ellen Datlow's Full Honorable Mention list (ie the long list) and first I noticed that Aaron Polson was on the list and then I noticed that I was on the list...

Well not me exactly--my story 'The Hollow Framework for the Cotton Man' which was in Postscripts 22/23.

Oh my freaking god.

I can't deny that if I had a list of things to achieve, then a mention from Ellen would be on that list.

However, I may have to tippex my computer screen so that I can remove Jacob Garbe from between me and Neil Gaiman. Other folk on the list include Simon Bestwick, Lee Thompson, Lavie Tidhar, E Catherine Tobler, Jason Fischer, Patty Jansen, DeAnna Knippling, Alison J Littlewood, Felicity Dowker, Kurt Newton, Gary McMahon (who got 11 nominations - show off :D) and others.

P.S. Don't forget, there's still time to enter my competition to win Space & Time magazine and an Amazon Gift Card.

SHOCKtober & Scary Mary

October at last - the month for all things ghoulish.

Over at the Verla Kay forum it's the beginning of SHOCKtober, where a bunch of writers log in with their word count each day as an incentive to fast draft. I don't quite qualify for fast drafting today (though I have done some work on The Poisoned Apple) as over at Writers' Dock a new Horror Forum was launched this morning, and I had to be in on the party. Wrote a wee flash story for the Forum, 'The Last Motel Room'.

And now for something really scary - check out this spooky trailer for Mary Poppins (yes you read that right - Poppins and Mary = Scary) on You Tube.