My book signing at Eerie Books in Wylie was a huge success. I had a great time talking with tons of readers! Thank you to everyone who came out to shop and say hi! Randy and company at the bookstore were delightful hosts and the whole day was wonderful! I greatly reduced our 2008 book inventory! Yay! November 1 is our last event, so hopefully we can sell the rest then and restock with a clean slate in January!

My Weird Dream:

This is what pain meds can do for you!

I dreamed that I was cleaning house and suddenly Cthulhu manifested from under the house. We had the under the floor heat vents like houses in the mid-west do, not the on the ceiling type we have here in Texas. Cthulhu started poking his slimy tentacles through all of the vents. Wind was blowing and household goods were flying around me in a whirlwind. The house was quaking on its foundations and the floor had an angry bulge in the center as if, at any moment, the old one himself would  burst through. The tentacles began slapping me about...then, a terrifying eye looked at me through a jagged crack in the wall.

I rebuked Cthulhu in the name of god.

Well, this angered him and he let loose many curses in his garbled Elder God speak....then he, surprisingly enough, began taunting me in English [who knew!]. He mocked my god and bellowed great, deep bass laughter.

"You rebuke me in the name of your god? Do you think this Hebrew god is a fearsome god that I should fear?" [lots of laughter, then a low, rumbling growl of anger] "I am [name unable to pronounce] and I was a god most terrifying when YOUR god was but a babe at his mother's teat!"

[has a bit of a comic book flair to it, doesn't it?]

At this point, Cthulhu is mightily pissed, and he morphs all of the ends of his tentacles into the Burger King King's head...first the tentacles were all yellow play-doughy and gushy, then they shaped into the scary BK king head complete with that freaky plastic face and smile and crown. So, these BK king heads are waving all over the place.

So, then I get really pissed, and go all pastor pointy at him [like in the cheesey ad for the new Billy Graham movie where he's at the top of the steps pointing/preaching at the trophy animal heads] and I rebuke Cthulhu in the name of Jesus Christ. The king of kings. The lord of lords.

Cthulhu got all screamy and his tentacles lost their BK king head-shapes, and as fast as possible slithered back into the vents in a great sucking gust of air. Paper and smaller objects sucked into the vent with the long, tentacles. Terrified screeches and shrieks followed and then the house was quiet and all was still.

And then Chris woke me up.

I imagine we had some major foundation issues after that.

And that's the wrap up on my Cthulhu-BK king- Jesus dream. Either it's the novel I'm writing or the meds....either way, the dream was creepily realistic!

Frontier Cthulhu, in which my story, "In Waters Black the Lost Ones Sleep" appears, has been named a semi-finalist in the running for the Origin Awards for fiction.

“The Origins Awards give our industry a chance to reward excellence in all facets of gaming,” said Anthony Gallela, GAMA’s executive director. “The award categories recognize games of all types, as well as fiction, non-fiction, magazines, comics, and more.”
Juries of subject matter experts in each award category selected the semifinalists from all submitted products. They narrowed the field for their category to the top 10 selections (or fewer, depending on the number of total submissions)....This year’s winners will be announced during the Origins Awards ceremony at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, June 28, at 8:00 p.m.

PUBLICATION, FICTION
Astounding Hero Tales
Hero Games
Edited by James Lowder

Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Wizards of the Coast
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Duty Calls
Games Workshop
Sandy Mitchell

Fire at Will
Roc
Blaine Lee Pardoe

Flight From the Dark
Mongoose Publishing
Joe Dever

Frontier Cthulhu
Chaosium
Edited by William Jones

The Orc King
Wizards of the Coast
R.A. Salvatore

Ravenor Rogue
Games Workshop
Dan Abnett

“The Shae Mutiny,” (from No Quarter #11)
Privateer Press
Doug Seacat

The Time Curse
Margaret Weis Productions
James M. Ward

Much discussion about Boohbahs and the television show precedes this small snippet of the conversation.

Kiddo #1: Boohbahs are very Lovecraftian in that they're monsters and disturbing.

Kiddo #2: No they're not. They're nothing like Cu-2-Lu

Kiddo #3: Well, if they had tentacles they'd be very Lovecraftian. There's a green one isn't there?

Kiddo #2: I don't know. It's on PBS and it's on while I'm in school. I haven't watched it since I was FIVE! [Kiddo #2 is now 7, being 5 is a VERY long time ago]

Kiddo #1: Well, they're very Lovecraftian just because they're disturbing.




Strange topic matter aside, HOW AWESOME IS IT THAT MY 10 YR OLD AND 7 YR OLD ARE DISCUSSING LOVECRAFTIAN ANYTHING??

 I have done well. As has Teh Hotness who has provided movies as well as books. And oh, yeah, the Easter Bunny brought a 12 inch Cthulhu in Kiddo #1's Easter Basket this year.

Much work to do. Must go now.