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Writing Ops (submission, contests, publications, and more).

Happy Walpurgis

Now he was praying because the Witches’ Sabbath was drawing near. May-Eve was Walpurgis-Night, when hell’s blackest evil roamed the earth and all the slaves of Satan gathered for nameless rites and deeds. It was always a very bad time in Arkham, even though the fine folks up in Miskatonic Avenue and High and Saltonstall Streets pretended to know nothing about it.

Classics that endure! Still here despite the almost year absence. Updates soon.

2024 50%

Happy Independence Day. Enjoying the Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci Fi channel. Two and one-half years since the last post? 2024 half gone? No possible way to recount the struggles, turmoil, and triumphs of that stretch of time. At least not in one blog post. And not now. Many things have been done. Many more are currently in the works. Let’s see if the updates can be more regular. On any subject. As Lin Carter always said, Happy Magic.

DEAD RECKONINGS (Hippocampus Press):

No. 31: “One Pure Writer’s Will” — review of Farah Rose Smith’s Of One Pure Will; “Lamb of God” — review of the film Lamb by Valdimar Johannsson 2022

No. 33: “Dark Nights of the Soul” — review of Matt Cardin’s Journals Vol. I; “The Cabinet of Dr. del Toro” — review of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities 2023

No. 34: “A new Lovecraftian Writer in Our Midst” — review of Tony Lamalfa’s Forbidden Knowledge; “Crossing the Void” — review of Matt Cardin’s Journals Vol. II (includes interview) 2023

No. 35: “A Stuart Gordon Afterworld” a review of the film SUITABLE FLESH (adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”) by Joe Lynch 2024

DUMPSTER FIRE PRESS

Poem — “Seditious Element Salute 2022” in World On Fire Propagandie 2022

ALIEN BUDDHA PRESS

Poem “Creep” in The Alien Buddha Skips The Party Part 2 2022

THE ESOTERIC ORDER OF DAGON AMATEUR PRESS

Random Access Mythosophy #3 (editor/contributor) 2022

Random Access Mythosophy #4 (editor/contributor) 2022

Random Access Mythosophy #5 (editor/contributor) 2023

Random Access Mythosophy #6 (editor/contributor) 2023

Random Access Mythosophy #7 (editor/contributor) 2024

Cover Art for Random Access Mythosophy by Brook Anderson

YEAR END SUMMATION

Fell short of my goal of 12 publications for a tumultuous 2021 but did manage a close amount of 10 for the year. Best wishes to all the editors, publisher, and writers I’ve interacted with or met this year and hope everyone has a productive and successful 2022.

Dead Reckonings No. 29 (Hippocampus Press) “Bedlam’s Children” (review of William Holloway’s BLACKWOOD ESTATES)

Dead Reckonings No. 30 (Hippocampus Press) “Green Hell” (review of the 2021 GREEN KNIGHT film)

“The Good, The Bad, and The Guilty .com” and “A Dog and His Boy” CHILDHOOD’S END double-anthology (Dumpster Fire Press)

Two issues of RANDOM ACCESS MYTHOSOPHY (Feb, Nov) for the E.O.D. amateur press

“Unsung” MARCH PLAIDNESS entry defending Helmet in the 2021 Essay Tournament of Grunge for Marchxness

“White Hellebore” in THE LAST TIME THE ALINE BUDDHA GOT SO HIGH (Alien Buddha Press 2.0)

Print edition of REALMS OF FANTASY RGP SOURCEBOOK III “Perils & Prowess” (Mythopoeia Games Publications)

“The Call of Chapodiphobia” in OCTOPI FROM THE SKY (Dumpster Fire Press).

(Implicit with numerous rejections and unfinished projects).