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As if we all didn't have enough to worry about, SPACE.com reports that NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a space telescope, found about 4,700 PHAs during its recent asteroid census.

PHAs = Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.  Are you feeling any better yet?

Me neither.

Find all the rather alarming details (including videos, diagrams, & a quiz) here. 

  I am very happy to announce that the Lovecraft eZine's 14th issue -- a special Women's Issue -- is up now, with five stories & poems plus an art section.    Authors include Holliann Kim, Jenna M. Pitman, Wendy N. Wagner, Tracie McBride, & Yours Truly (with a brand new Southwestern poem, "Fiesta of Our Lady").  The art section features work by Galen Dara.

  The introduction for this issue comes from Innsmouth Free Press's Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

  For those who prefer e-readers, the Kindle & Nook editions will be available within a day or two.


 

Curious about the so-called "supermoon" we'll be enjoying this Saturday?

Or completely unware that one is due?

Either way, check out this fascinating SPACE.com article to get all the details -- including why this biggest full moon of the year poses no danger to our planet.

(Yes, I know it's a letdown.  But there are still who knows how many asteroids out there, just waiting.) 

I'm excited to announce that Mike Davis's Lovecraft eZine  is doing a female-themed issue this month.  All stories (one of them in verse) are written by women.

 The issue will go up on May 10th, but you can check out a preview of the contents right now.

And, yes, I do have something in this puppy.   "Fiesta of Our Lady," a  Southwestern Mythos poem in heroic sestets, will be published here for the first time.  The art for this one is amazing!




 

Innsmouth Free Press has just posted the TOC for its forthcoming Fungi anthology (edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Orrin Grey).  The fungus is due among us in the fall of 2012! 

The paperback version will include:

•Ann K. Schwader, “Cordyceps zombii” (poem)
•A.C. Wise, “Where Dead Men Go to Dream”
•Andrew Penn Romine, “Last Bloom on the Sage”
•Camille Alexa, “His Sweet Truffle of a Girl”
•Chadwick Ginther, “First They Came for the Pigs”
•Daniel Mills, “Dust From a Dark Flower”
•Ian Rogers, “Out of the Blue”
•Jane Hertenstein, “Wild Mushrooms”
•Jeff Vandermeer, “Corpse Mouth and Spore Nose”
•John Langan, “Hyphae”
•Julio Toro San Martin, “A Monster In The Midst”
•Kris Reisz, “The Pilgrims of Parthen”
•Laird Barron, “Gamma”
•Lavie Tidhar, “The White Hands”
•Lisa M. Bradley, “The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster Under Glass”
•Molly Tanzer and Jesse Bullington, “Tubby McMungus, Fat From Fungus”
•Nick Mamatas, “The Shaft Through The Middle of It All”
•Paul Tremblay, “Our Stories Will Live Forever”
•Polenth Blake, “Letters to a Fungus”
•Richard Gavin, “Goatsbride”
•Simon Strantzas, “Go Home Again”
•Steve Berman, “Kum, Raúl (The Unknown Terror) – b. 1925, d. 1957”
•W.H. Pugmire, “Midnight Mushrumps”

The deluxe hardback version (the first hardback for IFP)  will include three additional stories:

•E. Catherine Tobler, “New Feet Within My Garden Go”
•J.T. Glover, “The Flaming Exodus of the Greifswald Grimoire”
•Claude Lalumière, “Big Guy and Little Guy’s Survivalist Adventure”


An e-book edition is also planned. 

Earth Day

most saucer tourists find

that’s quite enough

                        Ann K. Schwader

Thank you, science_at_nasa. 

How could I have gotten through my Friday without knowing the fate of Camilla the rubber chicken at the edge of space?

Check here for all the actual scientific details.  With video!

Actually, it's been up for a couple of days now . .. but there's still lots of National Poetry Month left, & plenty of time to enjoy this latest issue of the Science Fiction Poetry Association's online magazine. 

Edited by Lester Smith, this issue features speculative poetry in form  -- in dizzying variety.  From well-known forms like haiku, cinquain, sonnet, or villanelle, to lesser known structures like the reverse fibonacci, there's something here to appeal to any SF reader.  As a formalist myself, I also appreciated the introduction for this issue

Whatever you do, don't miss the final poem.  You may not thank me for this advice . . . but you'll enjoy it!

Truth in LiveJournaling: I have two poems in this one.  Check under Villanelle for "Lullaby for Arachnophobes," & at the beginning of Sonnet  for "Giving Up the Ghost."

Got Kindle?  Crave Mythos?

Innsmouth Free Press is converting the first seven issues of its popular Innsmouth Magazine to e-book format, beginning with issues 1-4  in one volume.  And, until this Friday, you can download it for your Kindle for free!

Find Innsmouth Magazine: Collected Issues 1-4 here at Amazon. 

After Friday, you'll still be able to get it -- but it will be $3.99.  IFP plans to release the book in ePub format this summer, & hopes to format issues 5-7 by the end of the year.

Truth in LiveJournaling: my short-short tale "Scream Saver" has been reprinted in this item.    

I've gotten two pieces of good writing news this week, one on dark poetry & one on Lovecraftian fiction.

1) Just found out this morning that my dark SF sestina, "Cordyceps zombii," has been accepted by Innsmouth Free Press for their forthcoming fungi-themed anthology!

2) The TOC for Fedogen & Bremer's Secrets of Cthulhu (edited by Robert M. Price) has been announced. 
 And yes, I am pretty much thrilled spitless. Check it out:

Don Webb, "The Healing Power of Snow"
Ann K. Schwader, "The Death Verses of Yian-Ho"
Ernest J. Fischer, "The Event at Gangew Taundon"
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., "The Corpse-Eating Cult of Leng"
Stephen Mark Rainey, "Warlords of Leng"
Will Murray, "God General Nakji"
Michael Fantina, "Leviathan"
Pierre Comtois, "Masks of the Puppet Lord"
Ben P. Indick, "The Monster in the Lake"
Leigh Blackmore, "The Return of Zoth-Ommog"
Lin Carter & Laurence J. Cornford, "The Doom of Enos Harker"
Richard A. Lupoff, "Steps Leading Downward"

(Thanks to Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. for this information.)