Manuscript submission totals for February 2003:
     Poetry: 0
     Prose: 0
     Acceptances in February 2003:
     Poetry: 7
     Prose: 1
     Lee the Writer has performed below expectations so far this year. I'll be playing catch up for the rest of the year trying to surpass last year's figures. Still, February was a better month than January. Acceptances include:

• The poems "The Nature of Tragedy," "Abortion," "Purification," and "Death by Cyanide Gas" all appeared in January's issue of Opossum Holler Tarot
  
• "The Somme" will be appearing in a future issue of Outer Darkness
  
• Voicings from the High Country will use the poem "Leonids, November 2002"
  
• Aegolius funereus was selected for publication in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
  
• My 9,000 word story "Book of Being" will be published in a future issue of Mausoleum
  

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

  • The Cross on the Drum | Hugh B. Cave
    Published by Doubleday, hardback with dust jacket, 1959; "A young missionary in the Caribbean matches his strength against the power of voodoo;" I'll be taking this along the next time the author does a signing in St. Augustine -- soon, hopefully!
    Paid: $3.00
    
    
  • Eugenie Grandet | Honore De Balzac
    The Heritage Press, New York, 1961
    Paid: $3.00
    
    
  • Tono-Bungay | H.G. Wells
    Illustrated by Lynton Lamb, The Heritage Press, 1960
    Paid: $5.00
    
    
  • The Ambassadors | Henry James
    Illustrations by Leslie Saalburg, The Heritage Press, 1963
    Paid: $6.00
    
    
  • Nostromo | Joseph Conrad
    Illustrated by Lima de Freitas, The Heritage Press, 1961
    Paid: $6.00
    
    
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | Edgar Allan Poe
    Illustrated by Rene Clarke, The Heritage Press, 1930
    Paid: $6.00
    
    
  • The Poems and Dramas of Lord Byron
    Published by Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887. Great condition, gilded page edges, filled with illustrations.
    Paid: $3.99
    
    
  • Ballads | William Makepeace Thackeray
    American News Company, 1887
    
    
  • The History of Pendennis; His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His friends and His Greatest Enemy | William Makepeace Thackeray
    Published by Belford, Clarke & Co. (date of inscription, 1887)
    
         The following magazines also joined the collection during the month of February:
    
    
  • Weird Tales #294, signed by Brian Lumley and Jonathan Carroll
    
  • Weird Tales #295, signed by Brian Lumley and Robert Sheckley
    
  • Weird Tales #299, signed by Jonathan Carroll
    
  • Whispers from the Shattered Forum #2
    
  • Whispers from the Shattered Forum #3
    
  • Whispers from the Shattered Forum #4
    
  • Glyph #1
    
  • Glyph #2
    
  • Glyph #3
    
  • Plainfield Dreams, a chapbook of stories by James Futch & Weston Price
    
  • Shoggoths, a chapbook of poetry by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (read review of this at Project Pulp)
    
  • Macabre #1