MORE ALTERNATES FOR FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT'S BACK COVER

FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT ALTERNATES

CHARLES GRAMLICH, WRITER OF COLD IN THE LIGHT, PROMOTNG MY WORK

He's holding up a review copy of THE HOLY TERROR, I have one I found *sigh* in a used book store in NYC, The Strand. Roger Dale Trexler published the collection FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT. I know Charles through Sidney G. Williams, another in our group of incredible writers hardly anyone has heard of, who has a dozen of his own novels in print. Charles mixes up science-fiction with horror, and to me, his finest book is COLD IN THE LIGHT.

This photo notwithstanding, in every other photo of Charles, he looks like Kurt Russell in the remake of THE THING.

ARCANA 41 AND WILLIAM F. NOLAN

Finally was able to get the photos off of my phone. I mentioned Arcana in a previous post, but it really was melancholy being there. I hadn't seen Duane Olson (in the yellow windbreaker) in decades. Harry Fassl and I would always drive in the early morning, so I've never crossed the Mississippi at night. Eric Heidemann and Roger Dale Trexler did a great job of doing a panel on Rod Serling.

PHOTOS FROM ARCANA 41

I'll eventually post my photos once T-Mobile lets me do so. For now, here's one of Rodger Gerberding, a fantastical artist and stage actor from Council Bluffs, Iowa, Paul Dale Anderson, author of Claw Hammer and a million other books, Roger Dale Trexler, who published two books of mine and has published several books of his own. Now a filmmaker, his first film, PLATYPOSSUM, was shown at a theater in Carbondale, Illinois. Then there's me with my mozzarella sticks. The second photo was taken by a very serious looking kid with a Wausau t-shirt on and he honestly looked like Snake Plisskin in Escape From New York. The third is of me in Paul's backyard in Rockford as we waited for Roger.

OFF TO ARCANA IN ST. PAUL AT 8AM

Leaving for the Orange Line at 8AM. Then on to the Blue Line to get picked up by Paul Dale Anderson at the Rosemont stop. He and his late wife Gretta published 2AM. Then Roger Dale Trexler, who published my collections FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT and I CAN'T COME CLEAN, will meet us in Rockford and then it is I-94 all the way to St. Paul. Hopefully I'll sell some books.