Hi,

Seems I always get pumped up after a convention. This time it was ConJecture 3, right here in San Diego. I had an outrageous improv story panel with Jefferson Swycaffer, John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow. Dick Clark's head stole a spaceship and tried to destroy the sun ...

The main news is a new short story collection of mine ("Blank Spaces & other dangers") coming soon from RageMachine Books.

What's an un-future? I have a new blog where you can see all kinds of weird, short pieces: http://unfuture.blogspot.com/

Yeah, yeah, a blog. But you know what? They're quick & easy, and there's really no need to develop a whole new website just to post text. I have a blog here on AuthorsDen that covers the "writing life". And one for photography, but that's all, I promise. Though I should probably start one for my fractal art. Hmm.

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Poems:
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Recent poems in Star*Line and Dreams & Nightmares. (Different ones, I promise!) Also, Astropoetica, the Martian Wave. My article on poetry in the Horror Writers of America newsletter came out better than expected. Oh, I finally got a poem into The Magazine of Speculative Poetry!

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a road warrior
stops to smell a lone flower
spring is in the air

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Stories:
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4 super-short stories (under 100 words each) in the book "FlashShot: Year One",
available here: http://www.lulu.com/content/120728

More stories in the works.

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Books available:
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"Year of the Twist" - a collection of my early short stories - $9

"insomnia f/x" - a poem e-chapbook, hallucinations from another sleepless night - $4

"the Other secret house" - an odd collection of poems, detailing the house next door; strange things happen when the owners are away - $5

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Short Films now available on DVD:
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"The Siberians" - 6-minute outrageous comedy about a dysfunctional family in Siberia - $7 (NEW)

"Mr. Graves" - 10-minute paranoid fantasy - $7

"Psyched Out" - 12-minute dark comedy about discount psychiatrists - $7

"Tech Support Blues" - 8-minute comedy about a tech support call gone bad - $7

These have all kinds of DVD extras, and more info can be found at http://theActorsPlayground.com

"Voice of the Dead" - I wrote this half-hour ghost tale for PhillipsFilms. It won Best Short Film at GoreFest last year. Its homepage
is http://phillipsfilms.mrolaf.com/films/deadphone/

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More Short Film news:
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"The Crawl" - half-hour crime drama, finished filming in July, still in editing

"Nightbeat 2 & 3" - serialized crime noir, postponed until next summer

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Graphics & other things:
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A weird photo-montage of mine will be the cover for the anthology Ecotastrophe, from SamsDot Publishing.

My art/photo/maze gallery:
http://gallery.virtes.com

The latest news can always be found at my website:

Happy holidays!
And a leftover BOO! for Halloween.

= scott
http://tales.scvs.com