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While Bob and I were vacationing in Malibu over the Christmas holidays, we took a field trip to the Calabasas Public Library, which is about 20 miles northeast of Malibu. CPL just happens to hold a copy of Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy (and not at my prompting, I'm happy to add). I don't think Bob was quite sure why I wanted or needed ( Read more... )

Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, a planned trade paperback anthology of speculative flash fiction, short stories, and poetry about culture, society, and politics from the 1920s to the 1980s, is now officially open to submissions. (And a quick ping of my e-mail reveals that the first submission has just arrived at 12:03 AM PDT.) Please ( Read more... )

I never received tear sheets for this review, so I'm not sure exactly when it came out, though the issue is dated "Spring-Summer 2008." But my intrepid and incessant quest for Sporty Spec information has paid off.

Ernest Lindsay of Holcomb (OH) College says in his Aethlon review:

"The children of Lucas and Nintendo have marvelous fun. We get ( Read more... )

• I'm about 40% done with the layout for Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy.
• The other night I spent about 20 minutes playing with a drop cap. (The layout equivalent of Oscar Wilde's "This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.")
• Cinema Spec's ISBN is: 978-0-9819643-0-0
• Cinema Spec's Library of Congress control ( Read more... )

I've just added Marcie Lynn Tentchoff's dark fantasy poem "The Cat of Nabeshima" to the poetry contents at Raven Electrick. I think I was particularly brave in buying this poem, as I'm not exactly what you would call a "cat person." :-)

http://ravenelectrick.com/ravenpoetrick/catofnabeshima.html

Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic continues to take ( Read more... )

Reports of Sporty Spec sightings have been filtering in from across the continent. Here Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic is shown in its natural habitat in the 810.8 range at the Multnomah County Central Library:


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Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic finally has an entry in WorldCat, the mega-network of online library catalogs:

http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Sporty+Spec

The original cataloging was provided by Lyn Gardner, one of Sporty's contributors, which is on the unique side, methinks. I'm sure having the cataloging available in ( Read more... )

I recently entered the library PR phase of promotion for Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic. I've been cruising the Internet looking for "suggest a purchase" forms on library web sites which allow recommendations from outsiders. I'd say about half of the public and academic libraries do allow recommendations from those outside the communities they ( Read more... )

Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic has just been reviewed at the Midwest Book Review: "An enthralling collection for fantasy fans, "Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic" is highly recommended for community library collections." I'm hoping this will help with library sales.

The complete review is here. It's the second title under "fantasy":

http://www ( Read more... )