BLOODY OCTOBER
Or, in font other than webdings:
BLOODY OCTOBER
A collection of chilling tales for the haunted season.
Which for the uninitiated contains my story 'Dead Parachutes' - the one with the zombie Dolly Parton impersonators, a retired superhero, a psychotic gnome, and a shopping cart named Fred. It is available at all good book stores. Actually, it isn't - but I've always wanted to say that. It is up on Amazon though. Which in its own way is a very good book store.
Anyhow, this fabulous book also contains a story by the wonderful and talented Aaron A. Polson - if you haven't read anything of his yet, then I recommend (again!) Reciprocity, which was published in The Battered Suitcase. Plus, there's a wee something from our esteem Editor Christopher Allan Death, and also tales from Christopher Fulbright, Rob Rosen, Lawrence Dagstine, Tom Johnstone, Karen L Newman, Sam Leng, and Kris Ashton.
I'm having a very Happy Birthday and chocolates and presents are only half the reason.
Sand: A Journal of Strange Tales has accepted 'Through the Warped Eye of Death'. Woot, woot, woot! It will appear in the Fall issue - or if you're UK based like me, the Autumn issue.
I also today recieved Christopher Allan Death's edit of my story 'Dead Parachutes' due out in October in the BLOODY OCTOBER anthology.
It's going to be a good October.*
*Definite overuse of the word.
Things that happened in Tucson:
I felt in love with a saguaro. It stood tall and valiant, enduring the fiery sun without complain. When I saw it for the first time my heart was taken.
I was a USBBY opener speaker. Afterwards I was declared a skin shedder, like the Tucson lizards and snakes.
Things I heard in Tucson:
“No one wants to be wounded by story. People want to be healed by story."
"You cannot blame people and expect them to help you."
“The job of an artist is to take poison and turn it into medicine.”
“Every voice matters. Every voice has a right to speak. Of course, we don’t
have to listen.”
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Monty Roessel "How do you become and artist? The secret is finding your own place and making it sacred.”
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Shonto Begay "Writing is not about the big things, but about the small things.”
“We are imperfect beings moving towards perfection.”
“Writing is about vision. It is about seeing things.”
“I am a barbarian. I am a savage!”
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David Almond
Things I saw in Tucson:Liborio, tattooed skin, big shoulders small legs, unshaved face, jumping into the ocean waters as shown in the picture book
Un Hombre De Mar written by Rodolfo Castro, illustrated by
Manuel Monroy, an
IBBY Honour Book. A most poetic sight.
The story in Spanish reads something like this: “Liborio has sea water inside his veins. Waters from the seven legendary seas. With little fish and everything, with vastness, shipwrecks, tides, and swells.”
And here is Liborio on the cover of his book, a man who doesn’t want to be good or bad, but only be like the sea.
Ah, Liborio, I think he could be my uncle.
Zombie Dolly Parton impersonators? I'm sold. It's going on my birthday list.
I want to know more about Fred.
Congratulations, Cate. Your summary makes this one sound bizarre and irresistible.
I (heart) wolf dude.
Cheers, Carrie.
Jamie - me too, he rolled off before we could have a proper conversation.
Thanks, Michael.
Aaron, he's insisting we read your story first. :)
I'm so getting this. It's on my next big ol' book list.
Also, it looks quite fetching with Wolfgang beside it, doesn't it?
The Wolf Dude is such a salesman. :)
Oh, the zombie Dollies! I have to get this one!
Cool. Congratulations on your book being out!
Thanks, girls.
what a combination of characters...grin...I gotta read this story...
And wolf dude does make a great little salesman...giggle...
He's a star. :)