2009 Rhysling Nomination, and Crooked Man series finds a home

I am one of many nominees for the 2009 Rhysling Award.

This is the sound of the goofystick still orbiting the earth just after it clocked me.

Also, the Crooked Man series (which I babble about on here all the time, been developing it since age 11) has just found a tentative home at a fairly big-deal publisher of "Transgressionist literature." The editor's from Philly, and writes similar material her own bad self. She said, of this series so far,

"If Aleister Crowley ever got over himself and started writing horror, this is what it would sound like."

That cracked me up to no end. I had cast Crowley as a horror author in the alternate 1940's of "Supernaut" (an as-yet-unsold tale of Wilhelm Reich's contributions to the field of psychedelic research.) But being compared to him...

Aw, hell, I see where she gets it. There Was A Crooked Man, and all the books that come after it, look some very difficult things full in the face.Crowley said that when you go after a god, you have to go all the way... madness included.

I will posts links to the work as soon as they become available, knock on wood. My latest big contract has been devouring most of my time, but the news of the Rhysling, and the Crooked Man finding a home, dangle like shiny carrots at the end of the editorial whackin' stick. I will take my wounds from it gladly. I've been working up to this for a while.