At Long Last Words About My Long Silence. Part Two: The Good News
Now that I’ve gotten all that off my chest, I can also say that a lot of the clouds that have hung over me have had some silver linings:
-Macabre Maine, the awesome people who published a story of mine in both their Lovecraft ME, and Bite Me, included my “A Visit From the Yule Cat” in their The Spirits of Yuletide: An Anthology of Ghosts and Lore, in which a Providence celebutante with “connections” has a creepy encounter with a beast from Icelandic lore. It Ithaqua be late in the season for a Christmas tale, but there’s always next Christmas.
-January 31st, I recorded an interview with my writing friend Mark Ryan, who has a writing podcast he calls “Mark’s Musings” https://soundcloud.com/wctvpodcasting... . We chatted about the inspiration behind some of my favorite and best stories, and the things that lead me to take up horror writing. You can listen to it on Over here on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/wctvpodcasting... or watch the video version Here on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhBjJ...
-FunDead Publications held their third annual Write Like a Girl event at legend-haunted Salem’s Witch House, benefiting Safe Child Africa http://www.safechildafrica.org/, which offers support and legal assistance to girls and women accused of witchcraft. For the first time, I read my “Handmaid of the Key”, a reworking of “The Dunwich Horror”, from Lavinia Whateley’s viewpoint in which she has a deceptively quiet moment with her weird twins, and which first appeared in Weirdbook #38 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....
-At long last, my “Yellow Labeled VHS Tape” has appeared in Weirdbook’s Annual Special, for this year has the theme of the Cthulhu Mythos. In it, a young grocery clerk with a fondness for vintage technology stumbles across the titular item, linked to an Internet legend of a mysterious cursed play. You can buy it now at on Kindle
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B... and Hardcopy https://www.amazon.com/Weirdbook-Annu... and even on Kobo
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/weir...
-I mentioned in the entry before this one that I had returned to one of my roots, in fantasy fiction, and in particular, the King Arthur legendarium. As such, I’m currently working off and on at a retelling of the Grail mythos from the point of view of a somewhat minor villain, namely Klingsor, the main antagonist in Wagner’s opera, Parsifal, which I saw at the tender age of fifteen when my lit class covered selections from Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and which left a profound impression on my mind. Between the chapters of the novel (in which I trace the anti-hero’s start of darkness), I’ve started drafting a related short story, in which the anything but kindly and not always wise wizard acquires an apprentice that he didn’t ask for, and while this apprentice has some talent, he lacks the discipline to handle it well (as long as the humility to learn that discipline). I’m writing and preparing it for consideration with an anthology that a friend pointed me toward, except my brain has decided to lock up at the least opportune time. I have the beginning written and the end written, but my brain has bogged down on the scenes in between. Prayers, kind thoughts, invocations of all kind that my mind finally unbinds could really help, but please don’t feel obligated.
-And last but not least! I will be at FunDead Publications and Die With Your Boots On's second annual Daughters of Darkness Market on March 23rd, 2019, at the Hawthorne Hotel. This year, they've added an author's room, and I will be vending some of my books and offering a few more literary tricks and treats. There's a $5 door fee, with the proceeds going to support HAWC North Shore. I'd hoped to take part in last year's version, and this year, it's shaping into an awesome night of strange delights for sale, a true bazaar of the bizarre.
-Macabre Maine, the awesome people who published a story of mine in both their Lovecraft ME, and Bite Me, included my “A Visit From the Yule Cat” in their The Spirits of Yuletide: An Anthology of Ghosts and Lore, in which a Providence celebutante with “connections” has a creepy encounter with a beast from Icelandic lore. It Ithaqua be late in the season for a Christmas tale, but there’s always next Christmas.
-January 31st, I recorded an interview with my writing friend Mark Ryan, who has a writing podcast he calls “Mark’s Musings” https://soundcloud.com/wctvpodcasting... . We chatted about the inspiration behind some of my favorite and best stories, and the things that lead me to take up horror writing. You can listen to it on Over here on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/wctvpodcasting... or watch the video version Here on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhBjJ...
-FunDead Publications held their third annual Write Like a Girl event at legend-haunted Salem’s Witch House, benefiting Safe Child Africa http://www.safechildafrica.org/, which offers support and legal assistance to girls and women accused of witchcraft. For the first time, I read my “Handmaid of the Key”, a reworking of “The Dunwich Horror”, from Lavinia Whateley’s viewpoint in which she has a deceptively quiet moment with her weird twins, and which first appeared in Weirdbook #38 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....
-At long last, my “Yellow Labeled VHS Tape” has appeared in Weirdbook’s Annual Special, for this year has the theme of the Cthulhu Mythos. In it, a young grocery clerk with a fondness for vintage technology stumbles across the titular item, linked to an Internet legend of a mysterious cursed play. You can buy it now at on Kindle
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B... and Hardcopy https://www.amazon.com/Weirdbook-Annu... and even on Kobo
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/weir...
-I mentioned in the entry before this one that I had returned to one of my roots, in fantasy fiction, and in particular, the King Arthur legendarium. As such, I’m currently working off and on at a retelling of the Grail mythos from the point of view of a somewhat minor villain, namely Klingsor, the main antagonist in Wagner’s opera, Parsifal, which I saw at the tender age of fifteen when my lit class covered selections from Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and which left a profound impression on my mind. Between the chapters of the novel (in which I trace the anti-hero’s start of darkness), I’ve started drafting a related short story, in which the anything but kindly and not always wise wizard acquires an apprentice that he didn’t ask for, and while this apprentice has some talent, he lacks the discipline to handle it well (as long as the humility to learn that discipline). I’m writing and preparing it for consideration with an anthology that a friend pointed me toward, except my brain has decided to lock up at the least opportune time. I have the beginning written and the end written, but my brain has bogged down on the scenes in between. Prayers, kind thoughts, invocations of all kind that my mind finally unbinds could really help, but please don’t feel obligated.
-And last but not least! I will be at FunDead Publications and Die With Your Boots On's second annual Daughters of Darkness Market on March 23rd, 2019, at the Hawthorne Hotel. This year, they've added an author's room, and I will be vending some of my books and offering a few more literary tricks and treats. There's a $5 door fee, with the proceeds going to support HAWC North Shore. I'd hoped to take part in last year's version, and this year, it's shaping into an awesome night of strange delights for sale, a true bazaar of the bizarre.
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