Now, it’s against the rules for preliminary nominated authors and their publishers to solicit or campaign for votes. To make the final ballot and become an official nominee for the award, the book must survive the first round of voting, which is taking place as I type these words (voting ends July 31 st).
Lastly, C lown Tear Junkies made the preliminary ballot for the Wonderland Award for Best Bizarro Collection. I just recently finished writing my first novella-YAY me!! When will it be available for public consumption? What publisher, if any, will help bring it to the masses? I don’t have the answers to these questions at the moment, so stay tuned for updates. This yarn features the return of Courtney Cute, whom some of you may recall from my story “Give Courtney Cute Anything She Wants” in Clown Tear Junkies. 
My short story “TERROR THING” will appear in the forthcoming Vertigo Schisms anthology from Surreal Grotesque, edited by Jeremy Maddux and due out in a month or two I believe. O’Neill), the debut anthology from indie publishing newcomer Fireside Press. My short story “Trapdoor People or: The Birthsong of the Trapdoor Reborn” was published in Fireside Popsicles (April 2014 – Edited by Sheila Hall and M.C. In February 2014, my short story “CLASSIC” was published online at Paragraph Line, “a journal of absurdist and outsider fiction, culture blogging, and cough syrup abuse instructional videos,”as described by founding editor/author/madman Jon Konrath. 4 (Rooster Republic Press – December 2013) My short story “The Riverbed: Rated Z” was published in Tall Tales with Short Cocks Vol. Last but not least, author/blogger/crazyman Frank Edler invited me to breakdown the music video for Ratt’s 80’s rock anthem “Round and Round” on the his blog-Books, Beer and BLOGshit. Here is the interview in its entirety transposed to my blog on Goodreads: -with-douglas-hackle I was invited to be a featured author for the “Ask the Author” Q&A segment on the Bizarro Fiction Facebook group. Nikki Howard interviewed me for her book review blog, now doing business as Horror After Dark:. If you follow me on Facebook, most of this will be old hat, but who knows? Maybe there’s an item or two you missed. 
So, without giving too much concern to form or good manners, I’m just going to dump a bunch of links and news here, all writing-related stuff that’s transpired since that time. As such, this post is one of those time-to-update-my-sadly-neglected-blog type posts.
Damn, I haven’t posted anything here since October 2013, which was a month after Clown Tear Junkies was published.
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