For the anthology you can send your submission to nickolauspacione@aim.com too because the account isn't congested. I will have an easier time downloading the submissions from there as a .doc attachment or you can give me your screen name so you can submit the story as an instant message transfer on AIM. I do submit anthologies that way and I can talk with the author in real time about their submission. I am not sure how many submissions are done this way these days but it is the way to go if you want to submit to publications. If you want to do the old school method by snail mail I will have an address at P.O. Box 431, Joliet, Illinois, 60434. If you want the guidelines you can follow them here, and I have posted them on facebook but right now I had a bug on my account so I am restricted for a few days if you want to chat with me use AIM but I have to add you first because of all the assholes who harassed me in 2002.
      What gets you rejected is if the story is either a male/male romance, female/female romance, male/trans romance, or male pregnancy stories. I find those things disgusting and will not read them. Meaning I will reject the story the moment it is sent and you will be blacklisted from the publications I put together. I mean this meaning please honor my wishes, I welcome Christian entries with open arms as long they can keep up with the subject matter. Something that gives it the hope in the dark light that it's casting with the shadows as seen within the submission call.
      I am not sure who reads this blog or watches the videos, but I am looking to bring the guidelines to twitter.com too. I have a picture in the gallery that is the submission call for the magazine and what I look for with the general magazine. This anthology is replacing Issue 14 so if you were part of Issue 14 I am turning that one into Issue 16. Issue 15 is the local issue and that will be taking submissions now for it so if you're from Chicago or Joliet, get your submissions ready for this.

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I learned that one of the entries got retweeted on Twitter and that was pretty damn cool by an actress connected to the movie Paranormal Activity 3. I think Codexed will almost get the recognition that the earlier journal got -- this replaced Nightmares and Dreams, but it took a darker turn too so it has traits of the anthologies. As you watch the video I will mention some about this one -- I keep it short though. It is cool to have this one recognized for what I am capable of doing. I am going to link another entry up too while I am at it here -- the one that was the previous entry that was posted called A Haunted Soul. That one came from all the research I did and got the strange, fucked up dreams that followed from all that reading. The video talks some about being retweeted by an actress which is one of the coolest things I started to see happen with my tweets on twitter.
      I figured if I get the freebies up there, they would want to check out the print exclusives in the magazine or in the anthology. This journal so far is well received, and just waiting for the submissions to the anthology I am working on as I speak. The challenge being I want the writers to actually write out their nightmares for this one, and they must have a coherent storyline too. I want them to use my journal on codexed for the model for what I am looking for here. Once I figure out the touch pad on the laptop I would go to focus on updating Writings From The Grave -- I tried to post on Shocklines but some asshole decided it was funny to hijack the fucking thread and not let people read the anthology I worked quite hard to get back up and running after the David Boyer fiasco. The whole thing with Boyer gave me a low blow because of all the work I had to do to get the anthology up and running again, two days ago was the anniversary of the re-release of the anthology.

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Okay this is done and ready for the masses, I worked on this for a good part of the day because I had a lot to do around the house with the dog. I am using this as sample for magazines who read my work before submission for their publications. I send them to codexed.com first to show them a sample of my work as a writer-- the blogs aren't exactly a good example for all writers but I don't understand why they like to use wordpress.com for their blog, being it might be user friendly yes but it is not something a serious author would consider for their free stuff unless it is a pdf file. I have the real website for that and will be updating that next when I get my files from the other computer on disk and moved over to this one. I have to open the html page up in notepad and add in the coding then upload the thing to the website after it is corrected with the links.
     There is another I am going to link up on the entry here in the blog, and that one is Unnerved Sleeping. This one is another that I wrote on the laptop but did the coding offline and saved it to a disk then took it to the library. I am hoping everyone can spread the word about these entries via facebook, wordpress, and yes if they are cool with me -- livejournal.com on the old goth community I use to run. I might be promoting this one on Shadow of Darkness when I try to get the membership up on that bad boy. Because of something I said I alienated a bloodline cousin with a joke I made about one of pictures if she is reading this, I guess I am saying I apologize if it came out like an asshole comment. One thing with facebook.com if you have someone who uses video for the status, play the video so you can get the voice behind the text. It makes it a little more interactive.
      I had been getting a shitload of calls from Casper Phoenix -- I want him to slow down on the phone calls because when he calls I am just going to bed or been busy writing. One thing when I am writing I don't like to be bothered when I am in the chain of thought. When I do a blog it is more being casual with the entries and interacting with everyone who visits. The reason I became the maintainer of the Goth community in 2002 was that the original curator liked that I provided actual written content to the community journal. I wasn't afraid to introduce heavy metal and horror fiction into the mix. The Goth community seems to be exclusive to the horror community, I think they should be inclusive. I mean without the horror genre there wouldn't be a Goth community right? But with that said, my codexed journal is quite Gothic in nature in the way it is expressed and does have a horror tinge behind it. That was the thing that made the community distinct when I ran it. I wanted to add a scary element instead of people looking spooky, as in actually scaring people in the process. When I got the job as the maintainer I was going to originally leave LiveJournal on my own accord and be more focused with the journal at diary-x because that was the one which was going to get me published.
     Hard to really believe I've had a blog of some kind for 12 years. I was a critic of the blog in the beginning, and still a critic of the blog because it seems to cheapen the effect of a writer with their main field when it comes time to write a full length book. I use a blog on Goodreads.com but not to the extent that I blog on tumblr. That is the day to day mixed media blog. On facebook I use the video feature often when I do status updates. With the one memory card it doesn't do video well with the Vivitar camera so I am looking to upgrade the camera now for Windows 8. I am falling in love with the operating system here, but it does take a bit of getting used to though. It is easy to fuck up and hit the wrong button to take you to the app screen.

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This is the submission call I am looking for in terms of the submission – I am looking for everyone’s darkest nightmares that have a storyline behind them. If you get stuck with this, you can read the journal I have on Codexed.com for a strong idea. The word counts are very important with this so you don’t go under or over the word count limits – the word count starts at 2200 words with this but maxes out at 5600 words. The ideal is 3300-4400 words here with it.
      The feel I want with this are those which will give A Nightmare On Elm Street a run for their money in the print form—this is designated as The Ethereal Gazette Presents: Shadow of the Nightmare. I want them as dark as possible here but be able to have them coherent because nightmares aren’t always this way.
      The submission address is np1976@excite.com as a .doc attachment, I do accept .docx but send them as the .doc attachment or the .rtf if possible –single space the paragraphs and indent them using the ruler on your word processor, this is the first anthology I am editing using a laptop so bare with me as I get this going. I will accept submissions via facebook file transfer if you don’t feel comfortable using your e-mail, Include your third person bio and picture too for the bio page.
      ( Behind the cut taq will be more details about the deadline and when it will be published. Click here to keep reading. )

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Those of you who read Hello and Good Night might wonder where it originated from, well it came from its brother Among Shadows. Since both stories came from dreams, and some ways the one was part two of the dream -- I figured I would share that with the readers here as they go and read about Reverend Beast's own health problems. The other one was written in 2002 upon coming back from New Orleans. The entries were written relatively from the same dream but there was more details that came out in the written journal, if you want to read Hello And Good Night this will take you to the link.      I want to introduce another entry that was written within the week that I got the laptop computer and written it offline too, that one is titled Dreams As Going Under. There are some weird dreams that I wrote about there and linked the one to Reverend Beast's blog as a comment as he wrote about his health problems in July of 2012. I have some new entries posted on tumblr with details about the entries posted via video on the blog there. I have been playing around with the video camera lately and trying to see what I can do with getting them going. I added a guestbook for those who can comment via Writings From The Grave on the journal and the comments are blocked on blogspot.com -- I need to get the HTML files moved to the computer here so I can update the site with the new guestbooks.
      I have a short story started and looking to submit the stories I wrote most of last year that I did. I have new pictures up on Goodreads.com in the blog with the anthology that is in the museum. I got some fool on twitter saying that the pictures on tumblr that are from Richmond were doctored -- I guess he insulted the curator who took them because they came from his camera. The photographs I took here go with the entries that I wrote on Codexed.com as they were taken in bed when I got the laptop, man it was weird writing from bed for the first time and now I am doing this from the kitchen -- there are other pictures coming soon too but the free reads are posted in the archive and if you want to comment you can by signing the guestbook. Just don't comment on every entry when it is posted because this isn't a blog comment system.
       I have noticed it is the two year anniversary of the reboot of the namesake anthology that I had to remove two writers from. IT would been two years since I worked with Ray Faraday Nelson and I am taking submissions for the magazine's 14th Issue because I am starting new -- those who submitted previously send me a new story for the magazine because this is a new computer and got some new programs to play with. I have Movie maker which means things got easier for making video blogs now but the one memory card is a bitch to save video to, but I can take a lot of pictures for the thing. I hope to have the new story written soon so I can submit it out, I have other stories done and on disk but trying to decide where I can send those in terms of a magazine that would have the balls to run them. The one thing is getting that magazine, and hard part is keeping it a secret until the damn thing goes to print -- I did what I could to keep Witherin Birth Issue a secret but some jackhole decided to narc on me for doing More Frightening Than Fiction, I am doing another anthology too with writers who have something in mind like what I do with Codexed.com.

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