You can vote here. I might just be involved with one of the books nominated as best anthology (Horror Library v 4). Of course, my friends Jerry Gordon and Maurice Broaddus (and publisher Jason Sizemore) might just have their epic anthology Dark Faith on the ballot in direct competition with me.

I knew I should have challenged them to duels at Apex Day.

(By the way, pictures of Apex Day are up here, if you’re interested.)

You should vote for me (aka Horror Library volume 4) because, well, it will encourage me to write more. Maybe in a zombie novel. But Jerry and Maurice are evil editor-type people who have rejected hundreds of people. Hundreds! Including me! Multiple times! Voting for them would only encourage them to reject more people, and next time it might be you.

I’m sad to report the obvious: It’s officially the holiday shopping season (I mean, when it looks like the holidays vomited on the store and I’m over half way done with my Yule list it’s officially the shopping season for normal people, right?) and I work retail. Between that and the MG zombie book I need to have done by the end of the month (but I ham half done…with the first draft) blogging, AND reviewing is being relegated to “When I feel like it”.

I will be continuing to post new reviews, but no longer in any sort of schedule before. They’ll just be posted whenever I’m done. and blogging here will come down to “When I have something to say” which really is what this blog should be–an outlet equally as much as a source of free entertainment to you (and a place where my distant friends and family can come to keep up with me.)

At this point everything I’ve had accepted has come out (even if I am waiting on contributor copies and payment) and while I have more on sub with great chances this is again the part where the work comes in. Blogging and reviewing is like the pretty wrapping paper that I put reading and writing in.

So the focus has to be there.

Besides, I need to do a little refocusing about my web presence any way.

…Wherein I talk about the best offbeat zombie books you’re missing.

I have a ton of work this week including day job work and the massive work that is WFC. Anyone who has gone on a big trip knows that before you can even pack you have to do laundry and make sure you have all the [bags/toothpaste/body wash/socks] you need. And before you can leave the house you have to “set up” certain things so you don’t come home to a disaster. Not that I think I’ll be coming home to a disaster, but my family is being awesome enough to let me run off for four days over what is our most family-centric time of the year (Jason takes his vacation this time every year.) So I’m trying to be awesome enough to set them up for a good four days instead of ones filled with “holy shit we forgot to get dog food”s.

Likewise, with it being a busy time of the year, both the kids’ school are having fall festivals (which require everything from candy and cookie donations to art contest entries) and next Friday will be their in-class Halloween parties. This will be my first time ever missing a class party–and I’ll miss two of my favorites. So to ease things we’ve been stuffing treat bags for the classes not to mention spending lots of family time together.

Plus, um, I sort of promised the kids that I’d write a zombie book they could actually read for them as a Yule gift and there is only like a month before I need to have it ready in order to print copies in order to have them for sure by Yule.

And did I mention Pam Grier is signing at the store tomorrow?

So yeah. Busy.

Oh yeah, and Horror Library v 4 officially launches on the 26th. You should buy a copy because it has an amazing table of contents (I’m in a book with Bentley Little! And Jeff Strand!)

So blogging (and Twittering) will be sporadic. I’d say non existent, but then I’d find something I want to rant about. So let’s go with sporadic.