For those of you who haven’t checked it out, might I recommend the Innsmouth Free Press – the website of the newspaper that’s been covering the community of Innsmouth above and below sea level since the Old Ones walked the Earth. It is a magnificent journal, of which the denizens locals are justly proud. And […]

… in Bob and Dave and Doug’s Flash-Flash Fiction Contest, and they’re right here, at ChiZine Publications’s website. Dedicated yard-apes may recall that the contest to find the best short-short-short story (300 words or less) closed to submissions last month, with promises that January 2 we’d come up with a winner and two runners-up. The

… appropriately enough. While the rest of us were whooping it up last night, counting down the end of December 2009, the literary web-zine January Magazine was posting its best fiction of 2009 piece – a list of just over 20 books that its editors liked best from the past year. They liked all kinds

Well, it’s New Years Eve. Soon I will be putting on my ritz-pants for the evening’s celebrations. For now, I am working on mid-point outlining for the very secret project of which we must not speak. And also, recalling how much I like Amanda Palmer, and wish I’d made it to a show like this

With just days to go before the end of the year, Quill & Quire reviewer Alex Good has put together his 2009 year-end summation at his blog/website Good Reports. There’s not a top 10 list, or a bottom 10 list. But there is this: “It’s customary to end the year with a list of highs