Here are some random things I’ve been meaning to post for god knows how long now…
-Jeff Vandermeer gives an excerpt for his intro to Glass Coffin Girls:
http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/05/02/ephemera-for-wastelands-jessup-moorcock/
This part:
“sometimes the reader will feel as if they’re experiencing the photo-negative or parallel universe of a story that exists on the other side of the page. Haunted? Haunting? It’s up to the reader to decide.”
Is wonderful to read, because that was the desired affect of the writing. Some of the stories really, literally, are other stories written by other people and completely changed inside and out, leaving only hollow ghosts of the original stories hiding on the page. This was done on purpose- I wanted these to be dreams from other books, nightmares from sleeping characters in television shows. I wanted this to be filled with the ghost of pop culture, and I am so beyond happy that Messir Vandermeer noticed this and placed it in the intro.
Other news: my short story Secret in the House of Smiles really has some legs. It was originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, then became the opening story in Glass Coffin Girls, and is now going to be published the anthology, Realms 2:
http://wyrmpublishing.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=18
Sharing the TOC with such great writers as Jeffery Ford, Paul Trembley, Tim Pratt and many more. This story is, like I said above, a photonegative story. It combines all sorts of different short stories, novels and television shows to create a strange, haunted, dream like reality that exists between the other worlds.
