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[31 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | ]

Note: Mirror Post to Myspace and More Than One Me.

1 What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
I held my child’s adult teeth in the palm of my hand, watched the blood run from her mouth, and failed in an attempt to sue the damn hotel company. By the way, NEVER stay at the Days Inn on McPhilips Avenue in Winnipeg Manitoba. PS – not even an apology from the company or that particular franchisee. Nada.
2 Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and …

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[19 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | ]

And I quote:
To dream of a haunted house, signifies unfinished emotional business, related to your childhood family, dead relatives, or repressed memories and feelings.
Couldn’t it just be a haunted house I need to write about? Do I *have* to go poking around in the wetwalls and fight the plaster and lathe to get to some inner psyche-psychodrama? Of course not…
In general, ghosts symbolizes aspects of yourself that you fear. This may involve a painful memory, guilt, or some repressed thoughts. You may be afraid of death and dying. Alternatively, …

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[10 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | ]

Click to pre-order from GST!
Over the weekend Graveside Tales received an email from the HWA. It seems that Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths edited by Colleen Morris & Joel A. Sutherland has been recommended for a Stoker Award in the anthology category. This came as a complete surprise to everyone at Graveside Tales.
We also have received the proof copy of Fried! on Thursday and approved the proof over the weekend. Everyone is very pleased how the book turned out and we are confident you will …

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[10 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | ]

So, I was having one of those weekends where I said (f) it all, and I walked away. Well, I walked away from parts of my daily routines; I didn’t do Myspace and Facebook things obsessively, I didn’t do forums, emails, editing, or Cubis (ok, I did some Cubis). I did watch Most Haunted and I did do my blog reading.
And, I went through all of my recently rejected material, set ‘em up for submissions and got busy with that. However – I gaffed. BIG TIME. At one of the …

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[8 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | ]

Few things -
I don’t think I’ll be online much this weekend. I’ve had an emotional day and frankly, I’m wanting to get away from it all without doing more damage to the inside of my cheek…
I have some slush to finish up, wrap up a few other things and work on the giant Yule newsletter – so that should occupy my time.
I have some advertising space in the newsletter. Similar to last time, only I want shorter text blurbs, and non-animated banners. Just because I’m not sure I can make …