AnthologyBuilder, some haiku

I'm pleased to announce my short horror story, "Hayride," is now available on the AnthologyBuilder.com website. For those who haven't heard of AnthologyBuilder, it's an online archive of stories (mostly speculative), and for a set price readers can build their own anthology. It includes stories by current writers as well as some classic stories by Poe and other authors.

If you're interested in building your own anthology, consider including a story or two from Dreams & Nightmares editor David C. Kopaska-Merkel. He is one of the site's featured authors for this month, and any anthology purchased by October 31st that contains one of his stories gets a $1 discount.

You can read a teaser of "Hayride" here, as well as browse around the site. (Click on the eye icon next to my name to read the beginning of the story.)

And for your more immediate reading pleasure, here is a group of fantasy haiku by Aurelio Rico Lopez III, and a scifaiku by Raven Electrick editor Karen A. Romanko.

A couple of good poems

Here are two poems I've read recently that really stuck with me. Both of them are technically excellent and evoke strong images.

- "April Again" by Charles Gramlich

- "When Again I Feel My Hands" by Marge Simon (scroll down past Tony Bernstein's article and the other poets)

Also, the official list of 2008 Rhysling nominations is online, if anyone hasn't seen it yet. I'm honored to have my name on the list, among so many larger-than-life poets, including David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Kendall Evans, J. Bruce Fuller, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Mike Allen, and Marge Simon.

Lastly, if anyone is looking for gifts for a fellow writer (or maybe for yourself), feel free to take a look at my Out to Lunch Cartoons gift shop. I've just lowered the prices on all the products, so now's a great time to buy something. If you're looking for a specific cartoon on a specific item that you don't see, just ask.