Well, it has been a while since the last one, but I wanted to get some news first instead of just sending out letters about me droning on and on and on and on and on...ZZZZZZZZZZZ.

What is New, you may ask?

I will release this June an E-Chap-Book called IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE WITH GOD. I'm publishing it together with my friends here at Author's den. So if all goes well, I might do a few more. I have 2 others in the works so they all could be out by the mid summer.

What is this mini-book about (oh who are we kidding, it is a short story:over 8,000 words):

Scott Podewell lives a quiet life with his Grandmother in Sedona, Arizona. He is an artist and has a faith in God. When his Grandmother is brutally murdered, Scott's faith shatters, but Trinity Rivers and her alternate cult is there to put it back together.

Okay, so you noticed a few names in there from DIRT BOOTS. And if you read DIRTY BOOTS, you know who these people are and you want to know about Trinity. Well, don't expect an answer to the question of WHO she is? Just enjoy what I chose to give you. HA HA HA!

Speaking of Dirty Boots, UNHINGED On-line gave it a good rating - http://www.unhinged1.co.uk - The editor over there wasn't able to print a full review for this issue but he will make it in the next issue in September. I think it should be good considering the rating.

More reviews to come: Terror Tales, Third Alterantive, Somniloquey Online, Mid-West Review, but the one I'm really hoping for is Fangoria. If I get reviewed in there, good or bad, I will shit my pants. It's like a musician getting the cover of Rolling Stone.

So, STEREO SCANCTITY is most likely not coming out this summer only becasuse I decided to shop it to the small presses. If I don't get any bites or a good deal (basicly a good deal is if they can offer me something I can't do) then I'll DIY like DIRTY BOOTS.

What is STEREO SANCTITY about:

Daryl Hersh is the young best selling author of the children’s series The Michelina Show. Life can’t get any better. He lives in Manhattan, happily married to front woman of the popular punk band Paw Padds, and is expecting his first child. But Daryl has a secret that he keeps from the public eye. It is not the fact that he has had amnesia since he was 10 years old and doesn't know where his family is, but that he is a sleepwalker who sees angel-like Beings. The Beings watch over Daryl and comfort him at night. He is the only one that can see them.

When the Beings suddenly turn Evil, Daryl becomes paranoid and violent towards himself. The Beings make him suicidal. Not wanting to pass his mental disease down to his children or have his new family suffer from his condition, Daryl seeks help. No one is able to help or understand his mental condition except for a Dr. Ballarat. Unknowing to Daryl, Dr. Ballarat is an ancient evil that haunts Daryl’s long lost family and seeks the pleasure of watching Daryl kill himself.

While searching for his past and family, Daryl discovers Ballarat’s true nature and realizes that Ballarat is responsible for making the Beings evil in Daryl’s eyes. Daryl confronts Ballarat and destroys him, reuniting with the angel-like Beings and his long lost family.

So, I got my first rejection from a publisher the other day. The publisher is ERASERHEAD PRESS. They are pioneers of bizarre fiction. They claim not to do horror but some of the authors that they published market themselves as horror, so I tried them out and here is what they said:

MIke,

Thanks for sending this, but I believe it sounds too much on the horror side and very surreal/bizarre. Good luck with this though. We wish you success.

--CM3, eraserheadpress.com

I thought it was kind of funny.

What is next? GRIEVES.

What is it about? It is the continuation of DIRTY BOOTS. More of Page, Sam, Perry, Trinity, Dan. It will also be a complete story like DIRTY BOOTS, but I will leave a lot of minor open butts that will carry on for more books. For those of you who don't know, it will be a tetralogy; four parts. I'll start it in June as after I read Ulysses. I read it every June on my birthday. And no, I'm not procrastinating.

Okay, I'm off to make more news.

BEEP BEEP BEP BEE BEEP.

Later,

Mike Purfield