Just a quick newsletter this time to let you know what's been happening in my world.

It has been quite a while since my last newsletter. Just wanted to let you all know that I am still alive and well. I have been very busy and am getting ready to start back to college to continue the chase for that elusive BA degree that keeps hiding behind obstacles so I can't catch it. As you can imagine, with that and setting up The Popper Gazette, a review and flash fiction zine, I've been covered over with work. The Gazette started as just a little site to showcase a few books that I'd reviewed, but it seems to have grown fast and furiously. Keeping up with it is a bit of trouble. Anyway, I'm automating that as much as possible, so bear with me, please. If you'd like to visit its at http://jopop.us/jopop.html

I'm looking for reviewers for the Gazette who are willing to work long hard hours for no pay--but hey, you get a bunch of free books and publication as well as your bio on our special reviewer's page. What more could you ask for? So if you are a reviewer or know of one, drop me an email at review@jopop.us or if you have a review you'd like to see published, check out our guidelines and submit it online at http://jopop.us/submission-form.html

News Flashes!
If you haven't already read it, shame on you! My latest collection of short stories, FAIRY TALES WITH A FREUDIAN FLAIR, is out NOW from Atlantic Bridge Publishing. http://www.atlanticbridge.net Two years in the making, it was a hoot to write. The cover is by the talented Rita Y. Toews who has an eye for twisted humor. DON'T BE THE LAST ON THE BLOCK TO HAVE YOUR VERY OWN COPY.

My short story "Billy's Brew" is now available in "Stories of Myth, Legend and Future: SBD SF&F 2002 Anthology." Find out more at http://www.motordoc.net/sf&f/Advertising/reserve_stories_of_myth.htm

This is a great book! I'm proud to be a part of it.

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THE ADMINISTRATOR, a collection of short stories, is now available in trade paperback from The Fiction Works. To find out more about the book and/or to download the electronic version go to http://www.fictionworks.com/etheadministrator.htm

You can now get SOUND THE RAM'S HORN in paperback!! Go here to see: http://www.hardshell.com/detail.asp?product_ID=0-7599-0481-2

Remember to take life easy. You only go around once. Go slow so you don't miss anything. Feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends, family or anyone else you want to annoy. But
if you do, all I ask is that you forward it in its entirety with full credit to me. After all, I'm gonna be famous someday, and you can frame it and say you knew me when. And my name is not Anonymous!
Jo

PS: Don't forget our men and women in the Armed Services. Keep them in your hearts and minds. They are sacrificing much for all of us!