Okay, all the poems are in for my chapbook, and I think all of the illustrations are done, we’ve been playing with layout and printing options...I’m so excited! It looks like, so far, we’re going to do a straight black and white version for around $8 (32 pages, 14 poems, probably 9 illustrations, maybe more) and a limited edition version that is signed and numbered and has some interior color (4 of the illos in color, I think) for around $11 or $12 depending on printing costs. It’s supposed to be available on October 10th, and it’ll be available directly from Sam’s Dot and from Project Pulp.

So here’s the line-up, not in order... I know the poems, but don’t quote me on the illos yet:

• “That Forgotten Grim(m) Magic”
• “The Dance of Beltane Eve” (reprint) (illustrated)
• “Trimming the Wyrd”
• “Red” (illustrated)
• “Swan Transformed” (illustrated)
• “Death Do Us Part: Prenuptials” (illustrated)
• “What Big Teeth You Have” (reprint) (illustrated)
• “Beauty’s Truth” (reprint) (illustrated)
• “Tripped Trap” (illustrated)
• “Aarne Thompson Tale Type Breach” (illustrated)
• “From the Ashes” (reprint)
• “Would You Not Dance” (reprint) (illustrated)
• “Rumpled”
• “Endings”

Also, the bio I wrote for this chapbook rocks, even if I do say so myself. I’ll probably wind up putting it up on my site as my bio. This is going to be really cool... I really am disgustingly excited about it.

I got an acceptance yesterday from Scared Naked for a poem I sent them. I’m glad they liked it, I was afraid it would be too “dark fantasy” for them, and if it was I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it--there comes a point in a poem where you’ve used words which mean most places won’t accept it purely because of those words. “Cock” seems to be ones of those words. “Nipple” often seems to be another. At any rate, “Pure White” will be in the December 2002 debut of Scared Naked.

Also I got an acceptance in the first part of the month for a poem I sent to Outposts of the Beyond. I also sent out four poems for a UK poetry anthology Rhys Hughes is editing, we’ll see if he likes them... (Thanks for telling me about it Michael. I wrote some really good poems for that, so the good thing is that if he doesn’t take them then I shouldn’t have any problems selling them elsewhere.) About a week after that I got a rejection for a poem from Strange Horizons. I’ve also received a rejection from Dreams and Nightmares.

So I need to decide where to send the poems I don’t have out already, and get several more written and sent out... And that’s it on the poetry at the moment, I think. I’ll chat at you kids more later.

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