THE FANTASIST

The Dark Pages Anthology by Australian publishers Blade Red Press is now available at fine retailers in Australia, and other upside down countries, and online at Amazon.com and other fine online retailers (or just follow the link above). The Kindle edition is right around the corner, if you are one of those types that can’t wait for all that barbaric shipping and handling business, and just want to get your dirty little hands on this collection of wonderfully dark speculative fiction stories right away. The opening story, The Stain of the Psychopomp King, is mine.

The Table of Contents and review copies are making their way around the web and out into the physical world as we speak, but once you read it and love it, go to Amazon, B&N, or your favorite review site online and let people know you enjoyed it and why. The publishing industry, especially the smaller companies in the shadow of  “Giants,” really rely on word of mouth.

I have read, and endorse this great little collection. I really believe there is some talent here to watch.

And of course, there’s me.

Let’s chat more later,

- L

Dark Pages Anthology, 2010

Well, three new poems are up at various sites around the internet:

• New Bedlam, Autumn 1888, a creepy two POV piece is available as part of the New Bedlam Project, a great horror magazine which centers around the fictional city of New Bedlam. I contributed a bit of horrific history with this piece.

• The Alligator Xylophone, a poem about my son and being a father, was very well received at Every Day Poets, a great site which features a new poem every day.

• And last but not least is Flapjacks, a satirical shape-poem in which a wife apologizes to her husband about the night before over a nice breakfast. People just don’t write enough shape poems, in my humble opinion.

Hi all,

My poem Family Jaunt is now available for viewing at Niteblade Online a fun Sci-Fi/Fantasy magazine which was kind enough to publish me before. If you like the work , please don’t hesitate to leave a comment with your thoughts.

Also, I just sold a good old fashion Monster Tale called The Greedy Blue to a good old fashion Monster Magazine called The Monsters Next Door. It’s a truly quality online ‘zine who has made Top Ten in the Best of the Predators and Editors Poll a number of times (which basically means it has a great reputation among writers, editors, and publishers of the genre and has secured their place in the world of legitimate online speculative fiction).

I’ll let you know when it hits the virtual shelves.

LEGS

Can you imagine owning Bela Lugosi’s Dracula cape?

How about Dracula’s ring or Calling card?

How does owning “Maria,” the robot from Metropolis sound?

A first edition Frankenstein, signed by Mary Shelly?

First edition Dracula, signed by Bram Stoker, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and more?

Alas, now you can.

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