Thursday, February 28, 2002
Yes, I know. I've been neglecting the journal again. Mostly it's because I haven't begun Chapter 4. The last few days have been full of all the annoying detail work I've been putting off while I finished Chapter 3.
Today I got photocopies of the artwork that Darcy did for In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers, and it's very cool. Also, an illustration that Richard Kirk did for a technical paper I'm writing on a new Alabama dinosaur find. Today was art-by-mail day.
But the big news for the moment is, I suppose, all the award nominations. I've got three on the International Horror Guild ballot - Threshold (Best Novel), "Onion" (Best Short Fiction), and "The First Adventure of Miss Catterina Poe" from The Dreaming #56 (Illustrated Narrative). Also, the story I wrote with Poppy, "The Rest of the Wrong Thing," has made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker award in the category of Long Fiction (novella, whatever), as did The Dreaming #56 in the category of Illustrated Narrative. To top it all off, "Onion" was chosen by Ellen Datlow for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Volume 15.
There are times when these are the sorts of things that keep me going.
Oh, and Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press says that my collection, From Weird and Distant Shores, is now down to only 25-30 copies. I can't believe this book has almost sold out in barely a month! If you want one, and don't want to have to pay out-of-print prices, you should probably hurry.
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