The main purpose for attending a con is to meet people and we sure met a lot of them. Between the two of us John and I covered a lot of ground. Some people John had met at last year’s conference, most were new to me. I can’t possibly write about them all but I…

I nearly had a major freakout last night when I was looking over the printed pages of what we had completed so far for Everybody Scream! and realized the type was way too small. Changing the typeface would not only add plenty of pages to the book costing us a lot more money but the…

Another Chicago area reading and this one’s a doosie! February 13 • 8 PM Eckhard Gerdes reading along with Ralph Berry, Adam Jones, Steve Katz, Lance Olsen, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Lidia Yuknavich Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 2320 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

ABOUT THE NOVELLA Bottling His Ghosts is a Victorian gothic novella that follows twenty-five-year-old Henrietta “Netta” Ward after she returns to her family’s country estate, Daunderhead Hall, to mourn her husband’s death. Further grief awaits when she discovers Thorn, her cousin raised as a brother, has also come home in shame, having been stripped of his…

I’m just a sucker for anything with a Malfi in it: