assorted updates

Wow, is it mid-October already? Say it isn’t so! Where’d my year go?

As usual, I’m late to the party to promote my own stuff. Negative Burn 13 came out last week, featuring my story YES, MOTHER. Here’s another fun promo image by artist Sami Makkonen (yes, I snitched it from his blog):

It’s a great issue. Sami and I share space with a story by fellow Chemsetter Neil Kleid and Dash Shaw, and there’s a heartbreaker by Elton Pruitt. Definitely worth a pick-up, but then again Negative Burn always is! You can also read YES, MOTHER online in its entirety at Chemset.

I just posted a review of Melissa Marr’s WICKED LOVELY over on the Endicott Studio blog. I really, really loved this book. Really!

Busy as usual over here. I’m off to Arizona on Thursday for about five days, which means missing SPX. A bummer, but there’s a chance that Leland will hitch a ride with Nick for the day on Saturday to scope the scene out.

What else? A few amusing links:

1. An entire website devoted to missed connections. That just kills me.

2. An octopus takes refuge in a coconut, parts 1 and 2. The coconut magic doesn’t happen ’til the end of part 2. Indie crafters, have a ball.

3. Speaking of octopuses and indy crafters, hansigurumi over on Etsy is blowing my mind. I’m a stickler for an anatomically correct octopus pattern and she appears to have this thing down. Her nautilus shell pattern was featured in a recent CRAFT magazine podcast.