January 2004 Brutal Dreamer Newsletter:
Welcome to the New Year! I’m starting a new year out with 3 less family members but ready to kick-start a new year of adventure and thrills and hopefully sadness will not be in the forecast! I’m writing this January’s newsletter earlier because I won’t be around most the day of December 31, 2003. Not only is that New Years Eve *tosses confetti* –but it also is my 19th Wedding Anniversary to the brave and long-suffering sweetie of mine, David. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Hope you all have a safe and wonderful New Year's celebration. PLEASE REMEMBER –fireworks do EXPLODE????? Do not hold them in your hands to find out! DUH
This month’s newsletter contains the latest publishing’s and 2004 projects for Brutal Dreamer, a featured Brutal Dreamer review, and a special contest to start the new year off with, just for you all.

Brutal’s BODY HORROR
Poem & vignette
at the TERRORS!

December 22, 2003, just in time for Christmas, Terror Tales re-launched! My vignette WITHIN MY DEATH GALLERY went live, as did my poem BIZARRE ZOMBIE BABY CASKET. To read these pieces please drop by and see the beautiful page Hertzan and his staff created. I was truly surprised to see how magnificent and elegant the page looks. Read my poetry at: http://www.terrortales.org/poetry/brutal.asp
Bizarre Zombie Baby Casket started out as a short gorelet. Michael Arnzen’s FRIDGE OF THE DAMNED -- http://www.gorelets.com/ then mutated into this longer version and published in the BIZARRE issue of The Dream People. (Thanks for the inspiration, Michael)
My NEW Terror Tale Forum also went live –it is free to register and post. Enjoy! Drop by and tell me with BRUTAL HONESTY what you thought of the pieces up at Terror Tales and how your holidays went… or anything else you wish to post like what kind of kitty chow you buy for your cat. To view and post on my forum go to: http://www.terrortales.org/forum/
Scroll down to BRUTAL DREAMER and click me! Have fun! Come on and go over there NOW and quit putting it off! You want to drop in and have some brutal fun, right?

The Publishing World receives
its bill of health:
Unleashing it's SICKness

December 24, 2004 --I have received my copy of: SICK: An Anthology of Illness. David Megitis created the cover design and John Edward Lawson edited the book! WOW this magnificent anthology is filled with many authors that I had never got to share the pages with! Nice honor, indeed. The book(s) arrived with sensational bookmarks and stickers to promote the title with. (Thanks, Raw Dog Screaming Press, for such a wonderful promotional kit).
Authors include:
Tim Curran, Scott Carr, Claudette Rubin, Vincent W. Sakowski, Harold Jaffe, Greg Beatty, Kevin L Donihe, Satan 165, Johnathan William Hodges, Jeffrey Thomas, Jack Fisher, Steve Goldsmith, Jessica Markoqicz, A.D. Dawson, J.M. Heluk, Ronald Damien Malfi, Earl Javorsky, S. William Snider, Brandi Bell, Scott J. Ecksel, James Chambers, Christian Westerlund, Dustin LaValley, Efrem Emerson, Hertzan Chimera, Greg Wharton, BRUTAL DREAMER (I know her), Abel Diaz, Mark McLaughlin, John Edward Lawson, Kurt Newton, Michael Arnzen, Scott Thomas, and Andi & Lance Olsen.
To read more on the SICK anthology visit Raw Dog Screaming Press at: http://www.rawdogscreaming.com
For more info on the SICK authors visit SICK website:
www.sickbook.com
To purchase the book drop by your favorite bookstore and order it! Or just click this link and get this 296-paged sickness from SHOCKLINES.COM. SICK: An Anthology of Illness that contains a Surgeon General Warning (who listens to him anyway?). Go ahead and click the link damnit and purchase the worlds’ new disease analysis today! http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/sianofilbbyj.html

~BRUTAL CONTEST~
WIN my beloved TOOTSIE POPS!

ALONG CAME AUNTIE ROSE MARY by Brutal Dreamer, is featured in this collection of sickness. Nowhere else will you read this story (not on the web or in any other anthology other than an excerpt –so you must write about the gist of the story or I’ll know if you just read the excerpt) get your fill today and see what family horrors Auntie Rose Mary has been hiding. You know you are DYING to know this …click the link; really, nothing bad will happen other than we spread this sickening disease worldwide… but that’s a good thing!
Whoever subscribes to this newsletter, purchases the book, and reviews my title “Along Came Auntie Rose Mary” will receive a Bag O’ Tootsie Pops ala Brutal Dreamer.
Deadline: MY BIRTHDAY –February 15, 2004
Send me an email: subject: “Along Came Auntie Rose Mary Contest”
Your email address and real world address (only for my use to send the Tootsies to you –I will not sell or hand out your addresses to any other sources… even if bribed with Tootsies or tickled until I lose control -I'll safeguard your private addresses with my life.)
Where you purchased SICK Anthology or if it was given to you as a gift.
Write a simple paragraph or long review (good or bad) of ALONG CAME AUNTIE ROSE MARY
Make sure you are subscriber of this newsletter –if you received this from an outside source –please write to: brutal@brutaldreamer.com or brutaldreamer@msn.com and tell me you want to join my newsletter. (Or just click my newsletter link on my website or Author's Den at: http://brutaldreamer.tripod.com or http://www.authorsden.com/brutaldreamer and sign up there)
Answer the following 3 questions:
1.) How did Tamara Jean’s parents die?
2.) What nickname did Auntie Rose Mary call Tamara?
3.) Where did Auntie Rose Mary do her brick-a-brack shopping?
Answer these questions correctly and I’ll happily send you a bag of Tootsie Pops.
The contest has only begun because all correct answers will then be tossed into a proverbial drawing hat, on March 1, 2004, the drawing will commence and the winner will receive $20.00 check to cover the price of their SICK Anthology book. That’s it! Now go order one today! The book is 296 pages and is less than $15.00 (US) Talk about getting your money’s worth! pretty please, go get one just for little ole' me? *my chin starts quivering and a tear begins to well up in my baby blue-greens*
PLEASE NOTE: No author, artist, or editor in the SICK Anthology or Raw Dog Screaming Press employee may enter this contest!
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Other contests for this SICK anthology that I will host will soon be announced at THE DREAM PEOPLE, BRUTAL DREAMER website and RAW DOG SCREAMING PRESS. Stay Tuned.


2004:
A NEW YEAR
With
NEW PROJECTS and GOALS

I remember this time last year: I was antsy as my first edited project was due to be published February 2003. I thought the time would never arrive but it did. Cemetery Poets: Grave Offerings Anthology, was my first big, edited project. It was a success and started 2003 out right for me (and several other authors). The project spawned several other projects for 2003. Now here we are at the beginning of a new year again!
On December 3, 2003 (which happens to have been my Grandfather’s Birthday) Walter Diociaiuti contacted me about an Anthology he was compiling. I will open 2004 by joining this Italian author on his venture.
I am waiting for a few other projects from 2003 to unfold as well.
CHIM&HER Anthology (edited by Hertzan Chimera, Published by CyberPulp), TERROR TALES vol.2 Anthology (edited by Paul Kane and John B. Ford, Published by Rainfall Press), WICKED WILL LAUGH Anthology (edited by John Edward Lawson, Published by?), AMAZZONI [edited by Walter Diociaiuti] to be published by UBOOKS (Germany) and GHOST EDIZIONI (Italy) and a few other projects to unfurl their wings and take flight.

WRITER’S HOOD ANTHOLOGY
Dilemma

I have no idea what is up the Writer’s Hood Best of Horror Anthology. Horror Editor, The Writer’s Hood, Susan Zoon, contacted me twice about this project and I agreed to join her in this venture and to co-edit this anthology. I have not been able to contact her via e-mail or her message forum at the Writer’s Hood. I would say for now, that project is a dead fish. If she contacts me, I’ll let you all know. Until then… glub-glub. I have given up worrying with the project because it’s time consuming and I do not have the time to touch base and play tag and keep getting no responses. If you hear anything from Susan –by all means, send me the information at brutaldreamer@msn.com or brutal@brutaldreamer.com either e-address. [Susan if you are around –I sincerely hope you are okay and healthy.]

BRUTAL NEWSFLASH:

Anthology Name: AMAZZONI (Amzons)
Editor: Walter Diociaiuti
Publisher: (Italy) Ghost Edizioni
Publisher: (Germany) UBOOKS
Editor, Walter Diociaiuti, an Italian writer, who lives in Germany, contacted me about an (uncensored) anthology he is compiling. The Anthology will feature 10 Female Horror Authors: Authors from Italy (1), England (4) Usa (2) and Germany (3).
I have agreed to join this venture and will be participating in this endeavor with Mr. Diociaiuti. The Anthology will be called: AMAZZONI published by Ghost Edizioni. Readership will be in Italy and possibly Germany. There will also be an English version.
List of Authors include: Alda Teodorani (Italy), Peggy Jo Shumate –Brutal Dreamer (USA) Eddie Monika Angerhuber(Germany), Kathleen Weise (Germany), Petra Wilfert (Germany), Sarah Crabtree (England), Sue Phillips (England), Marie O´Regan (England), Lisa Negus(England), Alex Severin (Scotland) and Susanne Brydenbaugh (USA).
My story: “ABORTED OFFERINGS to a DEMON” was accepted for this Anthology!
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Bizarre Ebooks, PolyCarp Kucsh has just accepted the pdf version of my 26 e-paged story: “TIME TO SCARE GRAMMA OUTTA HER SKIN” with artwork by Keith Wigdor goes live in January 2004.
To get the book please drop by:
http://www.bizarrebooks.com/
To read Bizarre-Books you'll need Acrobat Reader.
PLEASE NOTE: TIME TO SCARE GRAMMA OUTTA HER SKIN will release in PRINT format within the illustrious pages of the renowned, TERROR TALES ANTHOLOGY second edition: edited by John B. Ford and Paul Kane, released early 2004 from RAINFALL PRESS. Details forthcoming.

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December 18, 2003 (on my Brother’s Birthday –Happy B-day, Robert) I received the news that OUT OF THE DARKNESS & INTO THE LIGHT edited by AD Dawson accepted my flash fiction story, DEATH be not PROUD.
Death, be not proud is, for me - and I hope you don’t mind me saying, Dear Brutal Dreamer - is the finest example of the Neo-Gothic I have read in a long time. –A.D. Dawson
A.D., I didn’t mind this comment (compliment) at all. Thanks for publishing the story and for praising it so highly. Many thanks. I hope more enjoy it as much as you did.
http://www.dodsleypages.com/1320/frames.php
Scroll down and read my story –while you are there, read the other stories too. (Click refresh if you have any problems accessing the page)
Very, very good little buried alive + demonic fetus number! —Michael Arnzen, gorelets.com


Another International Anthology!
DREADFUL DOLLS

Just got word that I will be compiling a new anthology called: DREADFUL DOLLS. I have asked Alex Severin to edit the anthology and David Megitis providing the coverart. I already have this antho off the ground and we have this International title ready to get started. Walter Diociaiuti will be working with me on this anthology and will be editing it along with Alex.

Authors include:

Thomas Gleich (Germany) Marcus Korb (Germany), Michael Siefener (Germany), Sarah Crabtree (U.K.), John B. Ford (U.K.), Paul Kane (U.K.), Mark Samuels (U.K.), Alex Severin (U.K.), Kailleaugh Andersson (U.K.), Hertzan Chimera (U.K.), David Bowlin (U.S.A.), Myth Spinner a.k.a. L.J. Blount (U.S.A.), Susanne Brydenbaugh (U.S.A.), John Edward Lawson (U.S.A.), Boris Koch (Germany), Christian Von Aster (Germany), Gianfranco Nerozzi (Italy), Paolo Di Orazio(Italy), Andrea G. Colombo (Italy), Kathleen Weise (German), franc´O´brian (Italy), Walter Diociauti (Italy), and Brutal Dreamer a.k.a. Peggy Jo Shumate (U.S.A.).

Both Edizioni Ghost (ITALY) and UBOOK (GERMANY) will print and they will send a copy of the book to the Authors.

NERO BLACK
LABYRINTH OF BLOOD: Life Flow
In International Print

Editor, Walter Diociauti, NERO BLACK Anthology has invited me to join the Italian anthology and I of course, accepted! Ghost Edizioni will be publishing this title as well. My story: LABYRINTH OF BLOOD: LIFE FLOW was selected to be included in this anthology! (Thanks, Walter, for including me in your projects –I truly appreciate the honor!]
Labyrinth of Blood: Life Flow first debuted at SINTRIGUE DOT ORG FANTASY at:
http://sintrigue.org/fantasy/index.html still available in the SDO archives. Editor, Mark Anthony Brennan and Webbie geek, David Bowlin.
Side note: Labyrinth of Blood: Life Flow, is probably my favorite short that I ever wrote –I hope you enjoy it.

A BRUTAL DREAMER
Feature Review
GUARDER FACTOR by Shawn P. Madison!

I read and reviewed THE GUARDER FACTOR by Shawn P. Madison last night (finally)
Have you all read Shawn Madision's GUARDER LORE novel? If so, then you were waiting for the release of Guarder Factor! HOLY SHIT! I read it all in two sittings and was blown away -literally. He sure as hell packs a punch.
Here’s the review of the Guarder Factor:

THE GUARDER FACTOR by SHAWN P MADISION
©2003 Reviewed by BRUTAL DREAMER



Are you ready for Standard U.E.N. FlightForce procedure? We’ve all been on full alert since the release of the first novel, Guarder Lore, and we’ve anxiously waited for the second in the series: Guarder Factor. The Guarders have come back and given its fans more pirates, spaceships, and warring planets than we dare wish for. Yet, the Guarder Factor does so most splendidly. When I first read Guarder Lore, it was in short story segments and read much like a variety of short stories stitched together more so than a complete novel (that wasn’t a bad thing). Guarder Factor is exactly what you would expect of a novel: flowing from chapter to chapter instead of story-by-story creating an excellent mutation into a novel length work of fiction.


Shawn has created a world within this masterpiece and kept the feel of a classic science fiction novel writing true! He has developed his characters to fullness --so much so that you get a feel of the humanity and the extreme situation all at once when Buzzer’s young partner, Razor, finds humor in the fact that Guarder Buzzer takes on the entire CharterCity Police. Buzzer’s human side kicks in and he realizes the seriousness of his actions and what he danger could have occurred relying on a young rookie for backup. Buzzer is the type of warrior that generally does his warring without regards for others and goes in kicking ass and asking no questions.


One of my most favorite science fiction slash horror writers, Shawn P. Madison, has released another horrifying space sagas and has opened in a major explosion. From the first page of the Guarder Factor, you know you are in for a bumpy ride. You feel the helplessness, the horror, and the finality approaching of the hammering attacks. At this point, when it’s all over, and the screen goes dark, you know a hellacious judgment is on its way and isn’t going to pretty but it will be just and there will be no doubts because it’s coming with Guarder Buzzer attached to it.


Buzzer’s young partner, a rookie, Razor, brings an air of distinctness and humanity to the legendary Guarder, Buzzer. Of course, like all highly documented heroes, Buzzer is not well received: no one likes another big fish pissing in their pond and taking their glory. Buzzer certainly becomes more three-dimensional in this installment and although well regarded he is much despised by his cohorts especially on the Ruffian. Buzzer keeps all (even the bigwigs) in their place and stops at nothing to investigate a major upheaval.


Shawn gracefully writes science fiction with a strong flair of horror bleeding from its core! His writing is natural and you feel what is taking place, from the pounding in the chest of gunfire and explosions down to the horrors of the aftermath. As a reader you are under the gunfire and your ears will ring as the detonation of the GUARDER FACTOR goes off! You’ll experience all the adventure and action taking place it will be reeling in your minds eye. Shawn has a constant endowment finding the details and keeping them interesting, suspenseful, and gut retching and making sure his readers feel and see every factor --The Guarder Factor!
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My next reviews will be: DRAGGED INTO THE DARKNESS by Simon Wood and the CROSSINGS Anthology, edited by Megan Powell. I’ll post those reviews with my next newsletter. (I am rather slow at getting around to the reviews, and I must apologize!]
Thank you for your patience Megan and Simon.
In case you all didn’t know and it slipped my mind to tell you. I have a new journal –well, I don’t update it as frequently as I should but I am getting better at doing so… I have it set up for you to post comments over there too. Drop by any time.
http://www.journalscape.com/~BrutalDreamer~/

A sweet thought for the day
that does the body good!

Please keep a very good friend of mine, his nephew, in your thoughts, and positive wishes. His nephew has just gone under double lung transplant and has good days and bad days…. Please, if you would, keep this little two-year old sweetie, Walker, in your thoughts! Just maybe with all the positive energy we focus on, Walker will be singing more songs to the Wiggles and doing much more exploring with Dora years to come. My love and get well wishes to you, Walker.
--Sincerely,
Brutal Dreamer
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