The Wolf Dude Presents...

BLOODY OCTOBER

Or, in font other than webdings:

BLOODY OCTOBER

A collection of chilling tales for the haunted season.

Which for the uninitiated contains my story 'Dead Parachutes' - the one with the zombie Dolly Parton impersonators, a retired superhero, a psychotic gnome, and a shopping cart named Fred. It is available at all good book stores. Actually, it isn't - but I've always wanted to say that. It is up on Amazon though. Which in its own way is a very good book store.

Anyhow, this fabulous book also contains a story by the wonderful and talented Aaron A. Polson - if you haven't read anything of his yet, then I recommend (again!) Reciprocity, which was published in The Battered Suitcase. Plus, there's a wee something from our esteem Editor Christopher Allan Death, and also tales from Christopher Fulbright, Rob Rosen, Lawrence Dagstine, Tom Johnstone, Karen L Newman, Sam Leng, and Kris Ashton.

Tumbleweed and Dead Dolly

Courteous rejection today from the Robots Beyond anthology. And today's lesson - the plural for tumbleweed is tumbleweeds. Dunce. Who did I discover this from? The editor of the RB anthology, who also happens to hail from Texas - double dunce. Some good comments - worthy effort, some very nice surreal moments - so it wasn't all bad.

Now onto more of the surreal. The short story I'm working on - DEAD PARACHUTES - which I was hoping to submit to the Harvest Hill Anthology is getting sillier and sillier and... What's up with me? I used to write dark ficition, and here I am with an anthology that would be very interested in a story with a southern gothic feel and I've gone bonkers... We have garden gnomes, an ex super-heroine, evil plastic surgeons and zombie Dolly Parton's. I may have to blow them all up and start again. I really like two of my characters, so I'll perhaps pick them up and terrorize them in another part of town.

Maybe I'm going through some sort of breakdown. Please send chocolate.