more prizes added to the Fantastic Fiction raffle

Kathryn Ptacek is donating two subscriptions to The Gila Queen (this item will be raffled off twice). The Gila Queen is a market newsletter for writers and artists, and each issue contains publishing news, anthologies, regular markets, a theme market section, sf/f/h, contests, articles, and a whole lot more.

The Gila Queen, edited by writer/editor Kathryn Ptacek, just celebrated its 150th issue and has been published–first in print and now as an E-mail newsletter–for twenty years.

Normally, subscriptions are 20 issues and cost $20

and Diana Gill of HarperCollins is donating a signed, limited edition galley of Kim Harrison’s THE OUTLAW DEMON WAILS (#99 of 400).

One very last item added:
Stephen Segal of WEIRD TALES is donating a Lovecraft Memory Box:

You’ve heard of a memory box. WEIRD TALES now gives you: the “Memory Box.” H.P. Lovecraft’s 1919 flash-fiction “Memory,” specially typeset on 13 miniature pages and placed within a hand-carved Polish art box beneath a matching black-and-orange South African tiger iron sphere. A unique edition of 1.

Shirley Jackson Awards Benefit reading tonight in NYC

Nick Kaufmann sums it up better than I ever could:

"Tonight is the Shirley Jackson Awards benefit reading at the KGB Bar! Starts at 7 PM, $5 door charge (that's the benefit part) and probably a delicious Chinese dinner afterward for those who can stick around. There is also the rumor of homemade cookies, but if they're baked by Merricat Blackwood, you may want to avoid them.

The KGB Bar, not sane, stands by itself above the Crane Theater, holding the smell of spilled beer in; it has stood so for fifteen years and might stand for fifteen more. I will be there tonight, so that whatever walks there won't have to walk alone."




I'll be hosting our 9 readers, all of whom will be reading from the Jackson oeuvre. It's possible that members of her family will be attending so please behave ;-)