ACCEPTING A STOKER AWARD FRORT GRUE AT HWA 1993

NECON 1989

RAPID TRANSIT, 23rd & WESTERN, 2016 and 1985, and the only time I was Wayne NMI Sallee in a book

THE SHROUD OF ELVIS, MY BLANKET AT MANY CONVENTIONS

Should be posting my photos from Arcana tomorrow, thanks T Mobile you suck!

In the meantime, I've been wanting to show my fans what Peggy Nadramia gifted me sometime around 1988. Since people often piled into hotel rooms at cons to keep it cheap, but we'd be short on blankets, Peggy bought me my own blanket. In which Elvis had an oddly shaped erection and was holding onto it. But okay, it kept me warm on many a night. Still does, in the winter, when the moon burns full and bright.

And for fun, you can even hold it up and then stick the lips into your mouth and then the face would make you look all creepy like it did with Clutch Cargo or Space Angel (see left) who used Lip-O-Vision or something like that. My dog does seem to like it when anyone goes to kiss him like that.

So, yeah. There's saliva from at least a dozen people on this thing.

THE ONLY TIME MY MIDDLE NAME DID NOT APPEAR IN PRINT: IRONICALLY, IT WAS FOR "Rapid Transit"

By the time the "sequel" came out, everything I wrote was wit.h all three names. Everyone wanted the As and thex Es and the Ls

I AM THE AMERICAN DREAM

I AM THE AMERICAN DREAM, a collection of American Dream stories, will be published by Crossroad Press in the next few months. Harry Fassl had me dress up as AD to go with a story published in SEQUITER and Peggy Nadramia published the title story in her magazine GRUE. Illustrated by Douglas C. Klauba, I've added pieces of his other work, for "Corky's Quickies" in GRUE, as well as "Take The "A" Train" in (NOT) ONE OF US. As you can see from my recent illustration, I still am The American Dream.

HORRORSTORY: VOLUME FIVE

.An amazing thing happened a few weeks back. I found a copy of HORRORSTORY: VOLUME FIVE on Amazon for $40.00. For several years, prices have ranged from $100-$350.00.  I owned a (contributor) copy once, but sold it so I could by groceries when I was unemployed in 2006 and was down to applying for a job with Clowns2Go. Underwood-Miller was publishing the volumes in reverse order, each book holding three volumes of Year's Best Horror. The fifth volume has two of my appearances, "Rapid Transit" and ts sequel "Take The 'A' Train." RT was my first published work, accepted by Peggy Nadramia for GRUE#1, and it is the only place you'll see my byline without my middle name.

If Karl Edward Wagner hadn't chosen my story for YBH:XIV, I might very well be working at a traveling carnival as the guy who can make his veins pop out of his head. One of my parlor tricks. I call RT my albatross, as I certainly got better with my approach to writing both fiction and non-fiction. I'v posted photos of the various books where you can find the story, in Dutch, Danish, and German. I'm happy that I was able to get the book proudly posed next to my Walter White action figure. Seven years is a long time to be gone, but I truly needed money to eat.