Manuscript submission totals for January 2003:
     Poetry: 121
     Prose: 14
     Acceptances in January 2003:
     Poetry: 2
     Prose: 1
     This month the rejections far outweighed the acceptances. Among the few exceptions were:

• "caught myself" will be published in an upcoming issue of the literary magazine Free Verse
  
• Umbriate selected the poem "her motives" for publication
  
• My short story "The Abomination of Ialuyghaag" will be appearing in a future issue of Elsewhen

     Following is a list of recent acquisitions for my ever-expanding library:

• The Rainbow Around the Tomb
  Published by John E. Potter, 1864; A collection of poetry and prose on the subject of death and grieving.
  Paid: $5.00
  
  
• Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
  Yet another addition to the Poe shelf. This is a nice Whitman hardback published in 1965, with illustrations by Ati Forberg. Found at a thrift store in good condition.
  Paid: $0.50
  
  
• The Works of Washington Irving
  The Co-Operative Publication Society, undated (early 20th Century); A nice set, if only I had the whole set. I already had a number of volumes from a previous purchase when I ran across ten more in a thrift store. I hoped that by combining the two incomplete sets, I'd create a complete one -- but the book gods were toying with me. Now I have two matching incomplete sets, and I'm no closer to having a complete one!
  
  
• False Dawn; Blood Games; The Palace | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  The first from Doubleday, the others St. Martin's Press; hardcover with dustjacket, good condition.
  
  
• Memnoch the Devil & Taltos | Anne Rice
  Alfred A. Knopf, publishers; Found at a thrift store in Tarpon Springs.
  Paid: $1.00 each
  
  
• Louisa the Poisoner | Tanith Lee
  Wildside Press, illustrated by George Barr; Hardback with dustjacket. Near fine copy, a surprising item to find on the shelves of a paperback bookstore.
  Paid: $7.95
  
  
• The Odyssey | Homer
  Published by Collier as part of the Harvard Classics series, top page edge gilded. Yet another thrift store find.
  Paid: $0.75
  
  
• Henry Esmond | William Makepeace Thackeray
  Published by Belford, Clarke, and Co.; A Caxton Edition, 1890s. Very good condition, great book binding by the publisher.
  
  
• Wuthering Heights & Jane Eyre | Emily Bronte & Charlotte Bronte
  Picked both of these up in the same month -- a "rare and beautiful two book set" (as described by a bookseller on the internet) from 1943. Each volume includes wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Published by Random House. The amazing thing about this set: I found one at an antique show in Pinellas Park; I found the other several days later (mind you, I didn't know it was a set at the time) in a library book store.
  Paid: $18.00 ($15.00 for the first, $3.00 for the second)
  
       The following magazines also joined the collection during the month of January:
  
  
• Weird Tales #290
  
• Weird Tales #296
  
• Weird Tales #303
  
• Weird Tales #308
  
• Wicked Hollow #5
  
• Flesh & Blood #11
  
• Electric Velocipede #1
  
• Electric Velocipede #2
  
• Electric Velocipede #3
  
• Black Petals #22 (contributor copy)
  
• Little Blue World #4 (contributor copy)
  
• Opossum Holler Tarot (contributor copy)