New Anthology Coming


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Update: I just checked on this and my poem isn't showing up in the table of contents on Lulu. I've sent an e-mail to the editor to see if anything can be done. If not, well, I guess I'll submit it to another anthology! Thirteen O'clock has others that might be appropriate!



Update #2: Got a message from the editor. My poem missed getting into Welcome to the Dance because of a mix-up, so it will be in the "X VI" anthology (horror/supernatural). These are a series of anthologies for stories that don't fit their themed collections. X V (or X Five) is on its way to the presses, so X VI it is!






I have another (tiny) entry in an upcoming horror anthology being published by Thirteen O'Clock Press. It's a poem this time. It was supposed to be in a collection called Welcome to the Dance, but there weren't enough entries for a stand-alone book so it is being combined with another anthology, The Call, which suffered from similar difficulties.



I don't have a final title yet. I don't know what the cover will look like. I don't know how the anthology will be arranged as it is being combined. But here's a list of the accepted submissions (as provided to me by the editor) in alphabetical order by the author's last name. Well, sort of. Some of the entries have two authors.



The Call



  Brotherly Love by Diane Arrelle

  Grant’s Call by Roy C Booth and William Tucker

  London Kind by Gary Budgen

  Call of Blood by Michael B Fletcher

  His Calling by Michael B Fletcher

  Daydream of a Bored Fool by Dave Fragments

  Hemorrhoids of the Gods by Ken Goldman*

  Toll Call by Ken Goldman

  Rookies Take Point by David M Hoenig

  Out of Time by Kevin Holton

  The Message by Jeff Jones

  Blood Will Tell by Ken L Jones

  Dead Call by Ken L Jones

  Far Scarier Than by Ken L Jones

  The Nursery by Kevin L Jones

  Ring-Ring by Thomas Malafarina

  Coming Home by RJ Meldrum

  Signal To Noise by RJ Meldrum

  The Call by Rie Sheridan Rose

  You Can’t Lie Forever by Rie Sheridan Rose

  The Late Mr. McCall by David Smith

  Called by DJ Tyrer

  The Siren Call of Valentina Wentworth by Ken L Jones

  The Web Spinner by Matthew Wilson



* Looking forward to reading this one out of morbid curiosity...



Welcome to the Dance



  The Web Spinner by Patricia Anabel

  Last Dance by Diane Arrelle

  Dancing In The Dark by Edward Cooke

  Terpsichorean Titbits by John H Dromey

  The Dancing Partner by Joanna Elphick

  Cleansing of the Crypt by Michael B Fletcher

  Dancing Her Life Away by Michael B Fletcher

  Prom Night by Thomas Malafarina

  The Mask by Chris Marchant

  The Dancer by RJ Meldrum

  The Night Of The Dance by RJ Meldrum

  The Homecoming Horror by Maria Mitchell

  The Black Widow by Marie Mittmann

  The Darkest Dance by Marie H Mittmann

  Chairman Of The Bored by David Perlmutter

  Word Dancer by W K Pomeroy

  The Trigger by James Pyne

  Penitence Ball by CL Raven

  Our Night Is Come by Rie Sheridan Rose

  Among the Bones by K. R. Smith (poem) (See updates at top of post... there was a mix-up so my poem will be in a different anthology - better late than never!)

  Dance With The Devil For Endless Life by Ramona Thompson

  A Dance With Death by Wondra Vanian



Now, when I say my poem is a tiny entry, I truly mean that. It has 9 rhymes* using only 76 words all in one sentence. Isn't that enough to make you curious? It's so small it almost didn't make it into the book. The editor approved it, I got the contract, and then it was lost in the shuffle. Fortunately, a quick e-mail got things straightened out. I hope.



FYI, it will probably be out on Lulu soon. Please check out my little poem. And, if you really have to, some of the other author's works might be okay, too...



* Yes, it rhymes—you’ll have to deal with that in your own way. Oddly enough, I’ve had better luck selling rhyming poetry than non-rhyming free-form.




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Comments

  1. TessFebruary 13, 2017 at 10:11 AM

    I'm intrigued. A one-sentence, nine-rhyme, seventy-six word poem sounds very cool!

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    1. K R SmithFebruary 14, 2017 at 8:23 AM

      I didn't start out trying to do that, but that's how the poem ended up. I'd written about half when I noticed the pattern forming and just kept going.

      The (new) anthology it will be in is still being filled as of 2/14, so it will be a while before my little poem is published. It would have been out already, but a minor mix-up caused it to miss being in the "Welcome to the Dance" anthology.

      I'll do my best to see that you get a copy, of course!

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    2. TessFebruary 14, 2017 at 11:14 AM

      Thank you, I'd like that.

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