Congratulations to Mike Arnzen and Darren Speegle, both of their collections have made it on to the preliminary ballot for Best Fiction Collection of 2004. Here’s the ballot http://www.horror.org/stokerballots.htm Also, congrats to steve_vernon whose collection Nightmare Dreams and a story from it are on the ballot. Usually it’s the novel categories that have the toughest…

The filming of Party Girl (based on the short story from Lowlife Underdogs) is coming along. There are loads of cool pics from the set up on the MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/eggfilm but this is my favorite.

Sponsor an Author, Feed the Dream We’ve started a fund to sponsor an author to attend our Bourbon Ridge Writing Retreat. Give someone who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend a chance for a writing breakthrough. Writers need to be nurtured, good writing takes time and effort and a kind word here or a good…

Is it sad when the only birthday wishes you get are from automated web sites and forums? I don’t even remember signing up to half of them. I hope when I get home there are cards waiting for me from my realtor, mortgage company and car dealership!

This is a scary time to have a small business. A really scary time. Our plan had been to concentrate on library sales next year because libraries don’t return books and retailers do. I think this is still a good idea but I know that local governments are cutting their budgets everywhere and I’m sure…