(x-posting from The Pagan & The Pen, groups)
It’s been three years since the Courting Morpheus anthology was conceived, two since it was supposed to be in print and has been through two publishers. Finally, Courting Morpheus is being published!
Featuring stories by Geoffrey Girard, Camille Alexa, and Louise Bohmer, a novelette by Rowan Gant Investigations series author M.R. Sellars and introduction by Alethea Kontis, Courting Morpheus is a collection of 13 stories centered on the writing/artistic community in the town of New Bedlam.
Insomnia plagues the townspeople, and the monsters they usually …

Day two has gone well. I re-read what I wrote yesterday, got myself into it and pushed out another slightly-higher-than-goal count for today. Which is actually yesterday, now, but never mind that. I’ve updated the word count meter here. I’ve also added a poll over there, so hop to. I’ll wait until you get back.
I didn’t get into my editing job, but I did work on more cover stuff. Created a back to go with the front of David Dunwoody’s upcoming release Unbound & Other Tales. Yeah, you read that …

New Bedlam Mock Cover Only
In 1809, Dr. James Devizes made camp in a low valley some 2000 miles north-west of Portland, Maine.
With him were his wife (Arabelle), their three children (James Jr., Anne and Elizabeth), his colleague Dr. Arthur Holker, five employees and their families and six of the most cruel, twisted, criminally insane inmates from Bethlam Hospital in England.
In 1810, the settlers christened the community New Bedlam.
And things started to go wrong…
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A handful of outcasts meet in a darkened room above the New Bedlam Library, years after …

I swear Twitter is evil. I spend more time twittering than I do writing posts for my various blogs and writing in general. I really do need to rectify that, don’t I? Well, if nothing else, follow me (check the sidebar) and you’ll know what’s going on at any given time in the day. Usually.
Now, I’ve got some things coming up that I thought I’d tease you with. First off, Louise Bohmer has graciously taken the time from her crazy schedule of editing and promoting her novel, The Black Act, …

Damien Walter has created an amazing little event over on Facebook, and I really do wish I’d heard of it earlier, I’d have been promoting it far sooner! I have joined, and have sent invites out for others to join as well. And yes, I did add a link to New Bedlam on the event site.
Support Our ‘Zines Dayby Damien G. Walter
SUPPORT OUR ‘ZINES DAY – OCTOBER 1st 2009
What are ‘zines?
The short answer is that ‘zines are where we go to find good, new short fiction. Magazines …