*Blushes and kicks at the ground*

Some shameless self - promotional news items...

First off - The horror site Choate Road has me up as their Spotlight Scribe for November. They've posted my story from the Triangulation anthology called "Before the Ink is Even Dry". There's also a little bio and a wonderful picture of me in my Elvis shades. Fun!

Also, Abyss & Apex Magazine did a review of another anthology I'm in: Cinema Spec, Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy. They actually take the time to do a mini review of each piece, including mine. And they like it. That's always nice to hear...

Matt Betts, "Something with Subtitles, Maybe," fiction/fantasy/movies as metaphor. Considering the downbeat nature of the described film arc, I found this fun and perhaps even lighthearted. The self-involved drama-queen (king?) planning out each step of his reaction to a breakup as if using storyboard. An adult (so to speak) version of “They’ll miss me when I’m gone!” I liked this a lot.

Finally, I want to thank Anton Cancre. He did a wrap up of the Context conference for the site HorrorNews.net and was kind enough to mention the poetry reading I was a part of on Saturday night...

As much as this will label me a dork among horror lit dorks; I dug the hell out of the poetry panel featuring Matt Betts and Catherine Callaghan. Betts was just plain hilarious (if you don’t think that poetry can be funny, just check out his See No Evil, Say No Evil) and Callaghan is one of those shining lights that never ceases to amaze me.

Always nice to hear when people enjoy my writing. It's not like we all write for praise (money would be nice) but when someone goes out of their way to mention something you worked hard on, it really feels like you've made some kind of connection and spurs you on to try even harder.

Speaking of connections - for no reason at all - here's an image of the car chase from the movie The French Connection. Enjoy!