Strange Machines

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

30/4/08: Your Birth Day appears in The Journal #21.

11/3/08: Mercury Rising was sold to Tales of the Talisman. It will appear in Vol 4, Issue 4 in March 2009.

10/12/07: Your Birth Day was sold to The Journal #21. My Halloween reading of The Nightmare Avatar’s Nightmare receives a plug in Weird Tales!

23/10/07: The Nightmare Avatar’s Nightmare appears in the H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror Spring - Summer 2007 Issue #4. Miss Cossie’s Pies and The World’s Edge appear in Electric Velocipede #11.

8/7/07: Portal appears in the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Best Of SF anthology.

8/5/07: Ghost Month appears in Space & Time #100.

I am extremely thrilled and deeply honoured that the Mark III version of Terry Hickman and Greg Koster’s Writer’s Postage Chart has been dedicated to me! Many hearty thanks to Terry and Greg for this invaluable resource and their very very kind dedication.

RECENT APPEARANCES:

• The Nightmare Avatar’s Nightmare appears in the H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror Spring - Summer 2007 Issue #4.
• Portal appears in the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Best Of SF anthology.
• Ghost Month appears in Space & Time #100.
• Medusa in LA appears in the 2006 Rhysling Anthology.
• The Gathering appears in Poe Little Thing #4.
• The Magic of Crystals appears in Mythic Delirium #12.
• Medusa in LA and Passing Through appear in Tales of the Talisman Magazine Vol. 1, Issue 1.
• Boy I Love You appears in Story House.
• The Fall, In the Wake of War, and Ramblings at the End of the World appear in Penny Dreadful #15 - Tales & Poems of Fantastic Terror.
• Pest Removal Service and Just As Papa Said appear in Electric Velocipede #8.
• Jupiter’s Fury appears in Hadrosaur 21.
• Toward Mercury and Resurrection Dreams appear in Penumbric Dec 2k4 Vol III, Issue 4.
• Adventures in Wonderland appears in Trunk Stories #2.
• Godbody (in collaboration with Mike Allen) and Politics of the Solar System appear in Penumbric June 2k4 Vol II, Issue 1.
• I, Now, Toward Mercury, and In Her Palm Lies Nature appears in Wondrous Web Worlds 4.
• My short story The Assassin Program appears in Penumbric.
• Cataclysm appears in Hadrosaur 20.
• Reversal of Fortune and Nodule appear in Black Petals #29.
• Crimes of Our Youth appears in Aoife’s Kiss #10.
• Through the Woods appears in Poe Little Thing #1.
• One Dark Night and The Rapture appear in Quietus.
• Individually-Wrapped Candies appears in Beyond Centauri Vol.II, No.1.
• On the Sands of Venus, Suicide Drop, and Itchy appear in Black Petals #28.
• There Will Always Be, Remember Our Song, and The Strange Tale of Envelopa Poulain appear in Chim + Her.
• One Quiet Night in a Cemetery appears in Space & Time 98.
• My funny apologetic poem Sorry About Your… That appears on Poetryfox’s poetrycards. Get one today at $3 or 10 for $25. Perfect for any occasion, particularly when your cat is involved! ;D
• Violation and Bruises appear in the 1000 VOICES appeal against violence against women and children in Mexico.(Note: I wrote Violation in response to the last paragraph of a recent news report: “In March 2003 another 7 bodies were found of which one of a girl of six, found raped and murdered, and with her eyes cut out.”)
• Read Ebola Virus, A Mosquito’s Tale, and Not the Green Peas in Story House. Psst… their coffee is absolutely heavenly! You gotta try ‘em all.

AWARDS, REVIEWS, FEATURES, INTERVIEWS, and COMMISSIONINGS:

• Asunder (with Mike Allen) originally published in Star*Line has received an Honourable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 19th Annual Edition.
• Medusa in LA has been nominated for a 2006 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem category).
• The Art of Weaving received an Honourable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 18th Annual Edition.
• Death of a Thousand Paper Cuts came in third place in the Best Poem Category of the Dark Animus Awards 2002-3.
• The Darkside of Eden received a wonderful review in alibi.
• The Bone Carver received an Honourable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 17th Annual Edition.
• I, Now was voted best poem of the December issue of The Fifth Di… and In Her Palm Lies Nature best poem in Aoife’s Kiss. Both poems will be included in the anthology Wondrous Web Worlds 4.
• The Marvel of Flight and Crimes of Our Youth, which appeared in Wicked Hollow #1 and #4 respectively, received Honourable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 16th Annual Edition.
• An Interview with Horror poet and Nanotechnology advocate Christina Sng appeared in Penumbric.
• Portal and Time Travel were selected for Sam’s Dot Publishing’s Best of Kisses for Kids anthology Portals, to be released June 10, 2004.
• Toward Mercury was voted best poem in the January issue of The Martian Wave, and will appear in the anthology Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 4.
• The Darkside of Eden was reviewed at New Hope International Review Online.
• Join me at the Second Bewildering Stories Writers’ Conference.
• Angelflesh received an excellent review at ProjectPulp.com Review.
• The Darkside of Eden received a great review at The Swamp.
• Join Frank Marcopolos, editor of The Whirligig in a phone interview with Christina Sng.
• OF BLOOD SUCKERS AND WINGED THINGS - Hertzan Chimera interviews dark poet Christina Sng for Terror Tales.
• Antimatter was selected as the best poem in the April issue of The Fifth Di.. and is published in the anthology Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 3!
• International Author of the Month on Twilight Tales.
• I am incredibly honoured to have been commissioned by award-winning artist Frank Wu to pen several poems for his amazing artwork. They are now online at his site http://www.frankwu.com.
• An Interview with Christina Sng at Poetry Life & Times.