Lots of author readings over the next week plus lots of humor, new releases, reviews and prank calls... Spotted several really cool happenings in the paper today: Nalo Hopkinson will discuss her novels such as Gaylactic Spectrum and The Salt Roads , Tuesday, July 14th at 7:00 p.m. at the University Bookstore in Seattle. Caitlin Kittredge and Kevin Radthorne will discuss their novels Street...

  Ellen Datlow has just divulged the table of contents for her anthology, Digital Domains , over at her lj http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/200782.html   The book is a compilation of select stories from the three different on-line spec. fic. magazines she was fiction editor for -- Event Horizon , Omni On-line , and SciFiction .  The anthology will be published by Prime...

She lives and breathes! Since I last updated: 1) A new US president was elected. And the world rejoiced.

I have been remiss. The lovely and effulgent ellen_datlow sent me a copy of " A Whisper of Blood " awhile back, and I promised to read it and blog about it. It's a short story collection about vampires, which I would normally be all over, because, well, this is me. And I started it. And then I got distracted. And then I read a few more and got distracted again. It's a huge book. At this...

Ellen Datlow has released the table of contents for Best Horror of the Year and it includes a story by Adam Golaski from Worse Than Myself which we published last year. It's a very disconcerting story titled The Man From the Peak . Golaski has some other upcoming publications including a story in Exotic Gothic 2 and Strange Tales III (which I noticed is still accepting submissions).

A little bit ago ellen_datlow posted the final TOC. Looks like I'm in good company, with upstart_crow and imago1 and others I don't know personally but sure admire (William Browning Spencer, Joe R. Lansdale, Margo Lanagan among them). I'm honored, humbled, all that jazz.

--that line editing and trimming the flab off prose to improve it is genuine work. Of course, if I was really in doubt, I could have phoned ellen_datlow , who would have confirmed it for me.:) Actually, this is a part of writing that for me has its own special pleasure. ellen_datlow taught me how to do that right, how to look at what I've said and make it into what I really want it...

Here are a few worthwhile posts I recently read: Jeff VanderMeer has a terrific piece on Thoreau's Where I Lived and What I Lived For @ Ecstatic Days http://snurl.com/i9mqm    from Zen Comics http://snurl.com/i9noh   And Ellen Datlow http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/186011.html  and Neil Gaiman http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/stemcellresearch...

New musicals! Links to interesting articles galore - everything from dwarf galaxies to metal bands performing songs in Klingon. People joining Twitter like mad! Contests! Drawings! Books coming out! Oh, just go beneath the cuts... Fabulous (and local) writer Donna Barr wrote the libretto for a new musical: Trippin' the Light Fantastic . On Twitter? Considering it? Well the Pacific Science Center...

I just got word from ellen_datlow that my poem "The Thirteenth Hell" from The Journey to Kailash (dedicated to imago1 and written as damn near a direct epilogue to his incredible novella "Procession of the Black Sloth") has been accepted for Best Horror of the Year 1 . I will smile my widest smile and dance to call blood down from the skies.... And once I'm properly...