Self-Promotion
 
For anyone not closely following my sizzling career, four things to note: You can read two of my book reviews at Black Gate’s on-line site, order Acts of God from Playscripts, Inc., and now, yes, now––well, more or less now––you can check out “Portfolio,” finally seeing the light of day with Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, a journal that’s obscure if you don’t spend a lot of time reading quality slipstream fiction, but that is surely known to you already if you do. I say “finally” not because LCRW has taken a long with it (as these things go, they’ve been quite speedy), but because the story has had a long and painful history: It was the first tale that I ever had to withdraw once it had been accepted. Both the market and the reasons shall remain nameless because, despite Shakespeare’s suggestion that we amend the situation, the world remains full of laws and lawyers. That said, the company it has finally landed with is excellent, and I encourage anyone stumbling upon this blog to order their own copy forthwith. Here are the relevant links, the first two to Black Gate, the third to Playscripts, Inc., and the the last, to Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, the on-line version, with a link from there to purchase at Fictionwise. Enjoy, and thanks for supporting your local scribbler! http://www.blackgate.com/articles/review_steinbeck_acts_king_arthur.htm http://www.blackgate.com/articles/review_salon_fantastique.htm http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1333 http://lcrw.net/wordpress/?cat=4 Proper political and stay-at-home-daddy diatribes will return shortly. Stay tuned! By the way, the photos on these blog entries are mine. If you happen to want to steal them for your own purposes, perhaps you could ask me first––yes, that would be nice. Oh, and because they’re original, they all have a story attached. This one is not, as you might suspect, bad clay art from my kindergarten days. It’s a stone sculpture left to crumble in the sun outside the tiny (but nice) Sikyon Museum in Greece. The only way to even see this stone is to get to the ruins of Sikyon, no easy task, and then to trot down the path to the port-a-john restrooms. There, on the right, on the ground, in the sun, exposed 24/7 to all possible elements, is this...horseman? At any rate, the stone is thousands of years old, and suggests that even a culture that produced some of the finest stone-smiths in the world needed, first, a little practice. We should all draw a long sigh of relief. http://www.blackgate.com/articles/review_steinbeck_acts_king_arthur.htmhttp://www.blackgate.com/articles/review_salon_fantastique.htmhttp://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1333http://lcrw.net/wordpress/?cat=4shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3
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