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     Manuscript submission totals for May - June 2003:

     Poetry: 152
     Prose: 31

     New Poems: 8 (total of 35 new poems for 2003)
     New Short Stories: 2 (including "Alone in the Cataloochee Valley," "Down Twelvemile Slough")

     May - June Poetry Sales:

  • "epilogue" to Star*Line
  • "New Religion" and "R'lyeh" to Cthulhu Sex
  • "A Forgotten Tome" to the e-anthology Forbidden Texts edited by David Bain
  • "Cleaving the Surf Beneath Boiling Black Sky" to Peter Worthy's The Black Book
  • "The Feeble Hands of Mortal Men" also to The Black Book
  • "Dark Lanes in Late Autumn" to James Cain's Dark Animus
  • "Voyager," "Alien Land," "Explosive Decompression," and "The Kuiper Belt" to the new speculative fiction magazine Jupiter
  • "the hole in the night" and "whet dream" to Lunatic Chameleon
  • "The Antique Store" and "Xenopsylla cheopsis" to Descend
  • "Andrei" to Lullaby Hearse
  • "azure ghost" to the online version of Scifaikuest
  • "odd satellite" to the print version of Scifaikuest
  • "Big Rod" to Sam's Dot Publishing's Unspeakable Limericks anthology

     May - June Short Story Sales:
  • "Temple Beneath the Pines" and "The Terror of Two Owl Creek" to The Black Book
  • "Job Interview," "Leaving It All Behind," "Beriah," and "Virus" to the vampire-themed magazine Night to Dawn
  • "Between Progress and Extinction" to David Lee Summers's Hadrosaur Tales

Comments: I feel much better now. I stepped down from my stressful middle management job. I hadn't been able to concentrate on writing since taking on the responsibility, so I opted to follow the path of the starving artist and take a pay cut. I think the results of my decision are reflected in the number of acceptances I've received in the last two months.

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My work can be found in these recent releases:

  • The short stories "A Churchyard Near Emmett's Cove," "The Vigil," and "Promises" appear in Blood Samples Issue 5, April 2003 - the final issue of this fine magazine
  • The short story "Soulshredder" can be found in Mythic Circle Issue 25
  • The poems "The Tombstone in the Field" and "Like Pagans" appear in Descend Vol. 2, Issue 2, June 2003
  • "Cataloging the Demons" offers a warning to internet occultists in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Vol. 6, Issue 1, Spring 2003
  • "Samsara" is included in the literary journal Wavelength Issue 7, Spring-Summer 2003





     Recent acquisitions include:

  • Burlesques
    The Book of Snobs
    Roundabout Papers
    The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
    W.M. Thackeray
    Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., 1868-69

  • The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
    P.F. Collier & Son, 1927

  • The Divine Comedy
    Dante Alighieri, Illustrated by Gustauve Dore; Pantheon, 1948

  • The Mill on the Floss
    Adam Bede
    Scenes of Clerical Life
    Miscellaneous Essays
    Daniel Deronda
    Middlemarch
    George Eliot
    New York Publishing Company, late 1800s

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (complete three volume set)
    James Boswell
    George Routledge & Sons, late 1800s

  • A History of the Four Georges (complete four volume set)
    Justin McCartny
    Harper & Brothers, 1885

  • Memoirs (complete four volume set)
    Jean Francois Marmontel
    Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805
    Note: This set is almost 200 years old -- and it's in fabulous condition. The typeset uses the old style s that looks like an f. I'm incredibly pleased with this addition to the library.

Additional Note: Living in Florida, I have concluded that in order to best preserve my collection, I have to take steps to alter the atmosphere in my library. Therefore, last month, I picked up a dehumidifier and I've begun actively sucking every drop of moisture out of the air around my books.

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