Bad news for everyone who had stories accepted into various anthologies. After over a month of being on the virtual missing persons list and causing concern from everyone from editors to the cover artists and down to the writers themselves there was a message last evening from Christopher Jacobsmeyet stating we are all released from our contracts. Which comes as a relief as they were for 18months lol. Though a little reasoning would have been nice not just a ‘You’re all released from the contracts.’ But hey ho, we live and learn and just need to be a little more selective in future of where we submit to.

There is some good to come out of it. Chris Bartholomew, an established publisher of StaticMovement.Com is going to take the antho’s they were guest editing and run with them. After all they put a helluva a lot of effort in just to let them go to waste. Obviously you need to let them know you are still interested.

Details can be found here

Cern Zoo has made the final six nominees for best anthology! Gettin there. The ceremony is at FantasyCon. So if you haven’t bought it yet and want a blinding read(though I would say that) Here’s the link

Some of you might have heard of it, others won’t have. It’s a bike festival on the island where we double the number of inhabitants for 1 week to 2, depending on how much of a petrol head you is. 40thousand folks come by boat and plane to watch some mentalists doing 200 miles an hour around the mountain road. Luckily this year the death toll(so far, still 2 days left) hasn’t been as wonky as in many other a year. Most memorable a few years ago a woman finding an arm in her garden, but hey, she got a watch out of it. I just like the TT because they have beer tents and it brings over the fair. Anyone not from the Isle of Man ever been over?

Trying to be a little more constant with posts so you know I’m not dead and just working on the novel. Which is coming on at an astounding pace. The bare bones and characters are still there, but without the 2k constraints I’m able to widen the scope of the story.

Later this week I’ll be posting my next review. Matt Hilton’s Slash & Burn. He was kind enough to answer my 5 questions too, think you’ll have a chortle.

A short story, Curlife’s Fair is now slated to be in October’s Issue over at Death Head Grin.

On the 21st of this month my entry into Lori Titus’s Ressurection comp over at Flases in the Dark will be put up.

And that’s about it. Oh reading a Western at the moment. Never really bothered with them before and saw it and thought why the hell not. Actualy really enjoying it, so don’t be too surprised if I add Westerns to the genre list I’m willing to have a bash at!

Laters.

A fuck yeah moment.
Whilst doing my early morning web wandering, came across this. Now me, I’m a meat eater, hell, hunting doesn’t bother me, more flesh the merrier. But bull-fighting is always a one-sided affair. Bit of ducking and diving, tossing a few darts, wearing the bull down to nothing and then finishing it off, that’s not sport. So seeing this picture of a numpty who is in critical condition, but who cares? He decided to fight the fucker in the first place and deserves all he gets.

What a complete asshat. Have it!