They're going to steal this anyway so I might as well keep this one public but seriously, what is all this post theft going to do and prove? Anyway -- just completed my first newspaper interview, got an email from the local paper recently but they said they tried to call; though the phone number was changed. They wanted to do a thing about authors and anthologies, it is a good bit of mometum going into my signing coming September. Now I have to worry about the periodical submissions now, they are coming in by the day. At least three or four submissions a day, then that is before I start getting the Class of 1994 submissions. I am going to be running my ass dry with both of them seriously. This is one of the reasons I am going to be finally glad to get the Quakes and Storms anthology done that would give me more time to work on the other ones. I also will be looking forward to The Tajmahal Review anthology that is soon to get here from India (they've done some good work with Insights they do their cover as a trade paperback then do one better by applying a dustjacket to it (I need to be careful when taking this one out because of the way it is bound. They're done a little differently than they are in the states. I have to pay for the shipping overseas though but seeing what they did with their last book it is worth the price.) Also there is a plan to write the sequel of House of Spiders but this time co-write it with Quakes and Storms author Barbara Marjanovic (author PAWN: A NOVEL.) I was reading her short story collection as well as her submissions on this project and will say this can work. She already is outlining her parts on the story's sequel. There weren't really any visible fatalities in House of Spiders or its prequel, but this one makes up for it and it will be written by far a lot longer than what I wrote with House of Spiders. It is my third colaboration, but this time it would be interesting to see what happens when Canadian style horror is mixed with old fashioned Midwest Horror. I am excited about working with her because this is the first author I think I could do well working with, and the idea I have in mind this will be longer than both the other stories. This will be a debuting in my magazine when it is done or if Barbara has a magazine in mind, she could send it there too.
          Now this is addressing SamYoung05, why are you going around stealing my posts from my deviantart.com page is it enough that you have to make my life a living hell on xanga and other places? Just leave me to do my writing and no I am not a fanfiction writer as some of you rejects claim me to be. I guess that comes from the rumors that Peter_Barnes and "cousin" started. I am starting to think those two are one in the same. Yes they can slander me all they want but I don't really believe they got any novels out and as far as the one who calls himself what ever he is -- congrats on getting published on the anthologies you got published in but don't go expecting me to be buying any of the books you appear in. I have respect for the authors you appear with but I will get other books with their work in there, just not the one you appeared in because of the way you treated my project. I suggest that you treat me with a little more respect because you might never tell we would end up in a TOC together down the line. As much as you've hate my guts and got used to pissing on my name. I am trying to remain as professional as possible. I am not mentioning your name but you know who you are. Especially since Peter Barnes actually encouraged a bit of e-piracy on the part of my book, saying he would rather see it stolen than me making some sales from it. All the authors involved busted their ass on it.

One of the authors I will say right now will be in Class of 1994 will be the real Serena Carrington (since she and myself go way back -- I am trying to get a few friends involved from my past too because one of them is becoming a writer, and working on his first book as I speak.) The story she is writing for this will be a horror debut. My story in there will either be a Science Fiction or Pulp Adventure. Pending on the word counts of the submssions I will take three up to four stories per genre and they will be grouped in by their genre with a true story spread out wide spread in there. I might actually expande that one story I wrote for the Classmates Magazine -- seems like it will be rejected on grounds it is a family magazine and my jokes I cracked in there are a little off color (and a little too gruesome in parts.) I am opening submissions up to Urban Fantasy as well, and the reason I told Ralan.com not to open submissions up now is because I want to wait until Quakes and Storms is done and out of the way.

The progress on the upcoming short story, Norwood's Discovery is currently on page seven on an 8pt Courier New, 1.5 spaced. I wrote the guidelines out for the Class of 1994 anthology and the way it will be set up as an anthology when it is done will be that font and the formatting will be that too. I find the courier font in that format really readable. The story right now is currently 3,553, not quite the length of The Ferryman's Wheelchair but I am looking to make it longer than Lake Fossil. The only author to see this story in its progress form is Terry Vinson and some members from the second TABLOID PURPOSES. I am looking to write this one for a semi-professional Science Fiction magazine but I have this notion it won't fit because it is too litearry. Sometimes the case when I get rejection letters -- "Too Literary to be Horror, or too horric to be literary." So in that sense of light I have a harder time getting known, but I like being able to get audiences horror writers don't normally get. This is why I am working on this kind of story. The feel I want with this is more of a classic Science Fiction story or Golden Age Science Fiction. This story though will also have a slight Lovecraftian element, though it won't be as overpowering as the last story I did. I can tell right now this story is going to be special for me, as special as LAKE FOSSIL II or LAKE FOSSIL was when I wrote them.

Well since some wise asses were trying to do pictures of my so called "desktop" the mystery of what is on my desktop will be solved here and now. Just click on the cut tag.

( my desktop, almost used the picture that Tillemans had on his journal -- you know the deformed infant )

Authors Introduction: This is an essay I wrote for classmates.com magazine, I am not sure if this would get in or not but I thought, "fuck it." This might be too bizarre for them because of some of the humor I use. This is very laced with a lot of black humor, so if there is somone I offended with this -- it isn't intentional. I ( wrote this for Classmates.com, hope it isn't too bizarre. )

With Brigit closing the doors, I thought of bringing together an anthology project that will run quarterly. The first issue will be stories from the history of the House of Pain, from 1998 to 2004 -- two stories from each issue starting back from. The darkest and most frightening from The House of Pain. I am going to run the idea past Brigit to see if she is game about the idea first before I go on with it, but if you've been on the House of Pain and trashed my past projects -- you will not be in this, consider yourselves blacklisted if you trashed any of the anthologies I helmed. Payment for this anthology will be in a pdf contributer copy and a print copy if I can get them so if you want to be part of this project drop me an email at the email address I used with the story Gruesome Cargo. I am doing this because I feel guilty about the authors who never had the chance to get their stories featured on there; and hoping we can give this to Brigit as a thank you for all that she's done to get our names out there. Authors can pass this anthology around as they wish as a momento of their time on The House of Pain -- hell even have it as a conversation piece. If only I can get the House of Pain artists involved. Since many of us got discovered because of our stories on The House of Pain. I am doing an email to a few of the allumni to run it past them -- so far Peggy (Brutal Dreamer) is game about the idea. I am trying to see what solo story she has on The House of Pain. This can get very interesting.