I've reached a decision regarding my ill-fated illustrated dark speculative poetry collection. After having two different publishers pull out of publishing the collection, after receiving no reply to my query sent back on May 24th to a third potential publisher (a publisher that claims a response time of two to four weeks in regard to poetry collection queries), and after having no real luck finding other potential publishers open to unsolicited submissions at this very moment, I've decided to throw ...
I received word that one of my dark speculative poems is on the editor's short list over at a new small press horror magazine, Death Rattle Magazine. I hope it makes it through the final cut this time; this very same poem had been shortlisted once before elsewhere, but ended up rejected in the end. This is also the very same poem that almost saw publication in Doorways Magazine, that would have seen publication in Doorways but for the fact that Doorways died before publishing it. Once I decided ...
It looks like several of my poems inspired by fairy lore will be appearing in the 2011 issue of the print version of Abandoned Towers, slated for release that summer. A couple of the poems haven't been published previously, while others are reprints. Among the reprints: "At the Wheel", my Tom Tit Tot poem originally published in the Spring 2010 Issue of Illumen, and "Fairy Bandits", originally published in the December 2009 Issue of the web-zine Aphelion. These poems are in addition ...
This may have been up for a while before I noticed it, but the other day I saw that my illustration for my poem "When Wizards Dream at Night" now appears alongside the poem in the on-line version of Abandoned Towers. This was a tricky illustration to compose. I had to come up with a way to draw black figures made basically of cloud and shadow against a dark nighttime sky. I used a similar technique to what I used in the black wormy things in "Things in the Swamp", leaving sections ...
My horrorku "black leathery wings" and my dark speculative poem "Nightmares Fell my Fantasy" now appear on-line in the July/August 2010 Issue of the web-zine Aphelion. Both are reprints; "black leathery wings originally appeared in Issue Four of The Monsters Next Door, while "Nightmares Fell my Fantasy" was published in the Scattered Verses, Moonlit Curses grim poetry anthology. I have to say, in some ways, "Nightmares Fell my Fantasy" ...
In my e-mail in-box, I found a rejection for a poem and illustration combo sent out on March 26th. In the rejection, the editor said that the poem "Death's Ship" and its accompanying illustration were both "almost", but just didn't grab him. I believe this was the second rejection for both the poem and the artwork. While this was somewhat disappointing, as most rejections are, there is a brighter side. I've been looking for material to fill out my illustrated speculative ...
Today, I received my contributor's copy of the July 2010 Issue of the Sam's Dot Publishing magazine Beyond Centauri. It contains my ink drawing of a rather adorable sci-fi critter I call a "Tree-Climbing Crimbolain". I knew the image was on the cute side, in a strange sort of way, but it looks simply adorable in print. Why not purchase a copy of the zine and see for yourself? (The Sam's Dot Purchase Center can be found HERE.) I was kind of surprised to see that I am among ...
One of my first great interests as a kid was dinosaurs. Ever since I can remember, I liked monsters, and dinosaurs seemed like monsters that really did walk the Earth, instead of merely made-up ones. In some ways, I never lost my fascination with dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts. Way back when I was in university, I even wrote a couple of college papers with ...
The August 2010 Issue of Sounds of the Night is now available for pre-order over at the Genre Mall. I'm one of the various contributors of sensuous science fiction and fantasy with works appearing in this latest issue. Yeah, strangely enough, I sometimes write sensuous stuff. Although, I wouldn't call my contributions "R rated" (even mildly so). Consider them part of the "occasionally ethereal" material. There is an ethereal aspect to fairy lore, and my contributions ...
The Azure Lion Productions Zazzle Store already features several examples of my art on various types of merchandise. There are dragons and Vikings, knights and swords, on posters, mugs, stickers, postage stamps, magnets, mouse pads, and apparel. However, there is always room for more. What sorts of designs would YOU like to see on merchandise in the Azure Lion Productions Zazzle Store? See my store at Zazzle
Azure Lion Productions, my "professional alter-ego", now has its own Facebook page.
Dasef Central: Obligatory Blog Post: "I'm not sure how many of the writers I know manage to post a daily blog. I tend to forget about blogging entirely unless I have news to repo..." I like how Marva tells it like it (often) is, and also how she confronts some of the absurdly untrue but oft-repeated writerly advice head-on. Way to go, Marva! (I LOVE adjectives, and even like adverbs on occasion, and I've come to realise that writing is, for many, more of a ...
I'm still looking for another publisher that might be interested in publishing my illustrated dark speculative poetry collection. The collection ended up being too dark, too "diabolic", for publisher number one, Cyberwizard Productions. Publisher number two, Daverana Enterprises, decided not to proceed with more poetry books. They pulled out of publishing my collection and released the rights back to me. I haven't heard a word from my query to potential publisher number three. I sent the ...
This is a bit of old news, since I sent off the poems on June 30th, but I figured I would mention it now: I submitted five previously published cinquains and ten previously published scifaiku/horrorku for consideration for inclusion in the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Dwarf Stars 2010 short poetry anthology. Most of the poems appeared in Aphelion. If material published in venues like Aphelion is eligible, that gives my SFPA friends fifteen poems of mine to consider. I don't ...
A reminder: I'm always looking for fantasy and/or horror artists to feature in the Niteblade Art Blog. If you are a fantasy or horror artist looking for a little free promotion of you and your work, please consider sending something to art@niteblade.com. Payment for being featured in the art blog is in exposure only, but I always try to post a link to an artist's web site or on-line portfolio in the blog entry. I also post a link to each art blog entry in my various personal blogs. ...
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