I am very excited to announce that Clarkesworld Magazine has just accepted my story “The History Within Us.”  I’ve been a huge fan of Clarkesworld since its inception and it’s a big (ok, humongous) honor to appear there.  I’ve had my eyes dilated again today at the eye doctor, so I’m not sure if that’s the reason why everything is glowing.

That’s what the sky’s like today: gray, like TV tuned to a dead channel.  I was up early today in the pre-dawn light, and now it’s coming on 10 a.m. and doesn’t feel any lighter.  Rain then, I suspect, and lots of it.  Well, these types of days are conducive to work anyway. Last week I worked on a non-fiction piece and showed it to Mercurio, who said that if I try to sell it as fiction, people will say it’s unbelievable.  But it works as a memoir.  The story is …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Peter Straub, the multi award winning writer of such novels as Ghost Story, Koko, Mr X, and In the Night Room. His most recent novel is A Dark Matter, published by Doubleday this month. He is also the editor the recent Library of America American Fantastic Tales & Daryl Gregory, whose first novel, Pandemonium, won the 2009 Crawford Award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. His second novel, The Devil’s Alphabet, was recently named a finalist for …

What a great inspiration for a short story: a mysterious visitor who leaves roses and a bottle of cognac at Poe’s grave every year on the author’s birthday failed to show up today.  It could be because there were, you know, dozens of people watching.  But if the mysterious visitor has been doing this for sixty years, maybe he died — or did something more sinister happen? And Sybil’s!  We opened on Friday to submissions and have already received about 100.  And, wow, some excellent stories already.  Were you guys saving …

Sybil’s Garage is opening to submissions for our seventh issue tomorrow. What We Want Sybil’s Garage publishes a wide variety of speculative fiction, including traditional science fiction, fantasy and horror as well as more atmospheric/slipstream stories. For issue no. 7 we seek to cast a wider net and encourage contributors to send us both atmospheric/slipstream stories as well as those with traditionally strong plots and characters. We also will look at stories with little or no speculative element, but with speculative tendencies (e.g. weird but not-necessarily supernatural.) In addition, we are very interested in …