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No excuses; I’ve been criminally negligent in my signal boosting of late, and a lot of cool stuff has gone on without me linking to it, which violates some kind of unspoken Internet code of conduct. So, without further ado, here’s some cool things by some cool folks:

First off, the excellent S.J. Chambers has a short story in the latest installment of New Myths.com and Innsmouth Free Press‘s own Silvia Moreno-Gracia has a new story up at Fantasy Magazine.

Next, Jesse Bullington and Jason Heller put together an array of zombie-themed songs for your listening pleasure in I Rocked with a Zombie.

Finally, everyone I know has been linking to this already, so I doubt if anybody reading this needs to be pointed toward it, but just to be safe, Set to Sea is a really excellent, surprisingly poignant comic that’s just been collected into book form, but you can still read it absolutely free thanks to the magic of the Internet!

OK, that’s it for now, until the next time I feel that I’ve shamefully abused my social obligations.

My contribution to Vampire Awareness Month is a review of Guillermo del Toro’s first feature Cronos and has gone live this morning. So far VAM has been a really cool thing to be a part of, and there have been a lot of good, thoughtful posts on a variety of vampire-related subjects. I encourage everyone to take a look at the whole shebang. I’m personally partial to Tom English’s two posts on the literary vampire here and here.

I’ve been posting a lot of signal boosts and calls to action and whatnot lately, and so I thought it might be good to do a quick post collecting them all into one place so that nothing gets lost in the shuffle. So here they all are again:

  • Reyna‘s amazing Octopus Mesmerist t-shirt design is still in the running at Threadless for only four more days, so go vote if you’ve got a love for cephalopods mind-controlling morticians on your casual wear. (And who doesn’t?)
  • My story “Nature vs. Nurture” is still up for a readers’ choice award from Innsmouth Free Press, so go check that out and vote if you feel so inclined.
  • Speaking of Innsmouth Free Press, they’re still way under their goal for their fundraiser, so if you’ve been enjoying the quality stuff they’ve been doing (and would like them to be able to keep paying for my Netflix account) please consider donating a little to a good cause.

That’s it for now. I promise I won’t ask you to do anything else until the next time there’s something I need you to do.

Today we’re going out of town for a few days for a wedding, but before I go I just wanted to post a couple of signal boosts. First off, the fine folks over at Innsmouth Free Press (where I’ve been known to write a regular column and also the occasional story) are having a donation drive to try to raise $1400 by the end of June. So if you’ve not been by the site I suggest you give them a look, and if you like what you see then definitely consider donating. It’s for a good cause, if I do say so myself.

In other news, my friend and roommate has started a blog of his own, where he talks about Exalted (the game). So far he’s off to a pretty good start, with (among other things) an interview with Dean Shomshak, a name that I would probably recognize were I not such a plebeian. So if you’re interested in Exalted–or know who Dean Shomshak is–you should give that a look.

I’ll be back to my own regularly scheduled programming (such as it is) sometime at the start of next week.

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