A letter to John from Drew Morse, Ph.D. Chair, 2007 Rhysling Poetry Awards: Congratulations. Your poem “Demands of the Voluptuous Virginal Sacrifice” has been nominated for a 2007 Rhysling Poetry Award (in the short form category). The Rhysling Awards recognize the very best speculative and fantastic poetry published during the previous calendar year. This is…

Issue 29 of The Dream People is now online! You’ll find weird fiction from Cameron Pierce, Kevin Sweeney, kek-w & Brandi Wells plus novel excerpts from Kevin Donihe’s House of Houses and Tom Bradley’s Lemur. There’s also reviews for two RDSP titles: Vacation & Discouraging at Best, not to mention a really twisted review of…

We’ll be releasing a hard cover edition of The Fall of Never this December with a cool new cover, discussion questions and a foreward that will reveal all of brotherrabbit‘s secrets. You can pre-order it at Shocklines.

WHC is shaping up to be pretty cool this year. It will definitely be cool to hang out with Michael, Jen and Oliver from Cthulhu Sex again. But we’ll also get to meet wretlind and he’s promised to give us a one-of-a-kind, home-brewed, leather bound chapbook of his work that’s been trimmed with a hacksaw….

The Women of Persephone mass signing was great. Each of the women had a lot to say about writing, horror and life in general. Barbara Ferrenz kept the discussion going with lots of thought-provoking topics. I was particularly interested in Tina Jens’ comments about how horror helps us cope with life, deal with fear and…