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Don Eaves & Terrence Mollendor came up with this illustration for Darrell Schweitzer’s poem “Alien Graffiti.”

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As of today everyone who submitted poetry to be considered for Mythic Delirium 26 should have gotten a reply of some kind from me. If you haven’t, please send me a query.

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The latest StarShipSofa podcast contains an interview with me that’s intended as a teaser for my upcoming audio adaptation of my horror tale “Her Acres of Pastoral Playground,” which will run Halloween week. I hope you find it as fun as I did! (Click to listen.)

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I’m pleased to report today that Claire aka C.S.E. Cooney’s popular novelette “Braiding the Ghosts” from Clockwork Phoenix 3 has been made available today for your listening pleasure as a “Giant Episode” at Podcastle. Go, click, listen, enjoy!

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JoSelle Vanderhooft’s anthology Steam Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, which contains my novelette “Sleepless, Burning Life,” is now available in e-book Nook format at Barnes & Noble. (It was already available in Kindle format on Amazon.)

Fantastique Unfettered Issue 3, which contains a lengthy interview with me about poetry, fiction, editing, personal stuff, the works, is now available at Amazon.com. (It was already available at Barnes & Noble.)

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Tim Mullins’ cover art for Mythic Delirium 25.

And here’s another illustration by Paula Friedlander, that nestles between Melissa Frederick’s poem “Venus Crossing the Sun” and Mari Ness’ poem “Raven Singing.”

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Daniel Trout’s moody illustration for Florence Major’s poem “Joseph Carey Merrick.”

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Paula Friedlander’s illustration for Jessica Wick’s poem “Nobody’s Song.”

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Today ends up being a double-poem day.

My poem “Surviving Wonderland” popped up today at the new issue of Stone Telling, which just went live. It’s a delicious looking issue, focused on myth in storytelling, with contributions by Yoon Ha Lee, Delia Sherman, Amal El-Mohtar, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen, Shira Lipkin and many others. The issue also contains a creepy recording I made to go with my poem, and a few thoughts I shared on the poem in a round table discussion. There’s also a review I wrote of the poems (and just the poems) in Not One of Us 45.

And, coincidentally, my poem “Heart’s Delight” (a Claire-dare poem prompted by Nicole Kornher-Stace) appears in Not One of Us 46, which is being mailed to subscribers this week. There’s also work from Patricia Russo, Rose Lemberg, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen and more. If it’s not on its way to you, here’s where you go to fix that.

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Paula Friedlander’s illustration for Sonya Taaffe’s poem “The Description of a Wish.”

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