Niteblade News

It’s ready. A day early even. Lost Innocence is now available for purchase as both a trade paperback and a downloadable .pdf.

Lost Innocence

Contributor copies will go out in the near future (expect an email about that in the next day or two) and I’ll draw a name to win the free copy tomorrow. For now I’m going to sit back, have a French Vanilla Cappucino from Tim Horton’s and enjoy the fact it’s done.

If anyone knows any good review sites please don’t hesitate to let me know, I’d also love to hear what you think of the book.

I fell a bit behind on my slush pile over the summer, and I apologise. However, I’ve been making progress through it lately and as of right this moment there are no pending poetry submissions and the oldest fiction submission is from July 20th. I intend to keep making progress but it may take me a little while yet to catch up as I want to give every piece a full read and the attention it deserves, please continue to be patient with me.

In the meantime, there are no entries for the contest to win a copy of Lost Innocence — none. What’s up with that? Enter now your odds look pretty good…unfortunately.

In anticipation of the release of the first Niteblade anthology, Lost Innocence, I’ve decided to have a contest. A very simple contest.

1. Link to http://www.niteblade.com from your website, blog or mailing list. Don’t have any of those? “Stumble” it or otherwise promote the site and the zine.
2. Email the details to me at rhonda@niteblade.com

For every link you’ve posted or thing you’ve done to promote the magazine I will enter your name into a draw. At the end of September I’ll make a draw and the winner will get a free copy of Lost Innocence.

Ready? Set. Go!

The table of contents has been finalized. All the agreements have been sent back to me and I’m starting to get everything formatted and ready to send to my husband Jo (who does the cover design and layouts for the .pdfs) to layout the anthology. Thus, the table of contents for “Lost Innocence: A Niteblade Anthology” is as follows (in no particular order):

Chosen via Poll:
Illuminating Hell by Christopher Hivner
Dark Angel by R. K. Gemienhardt
The Rusalka by Ian R. Faulkner
Killing Mittens by Milan Smith
The Dreadlobster by Joshua Parmenter
Prison Darkness by Nathanael Green
The Seventh Day by Patrick Hurley
Corpse Candles by Richard H. Fay
Diary of Death by Alexis Child
Imaginarium by Aurelio Rico Lopez II

Chosen by Rhonda from past issues:
Philosopher Quinn by Jens Rushing
The Gnome’s Spectacles by Chris Burdett
Joy by David Buchan
Oil Change by Greg Schwartz
The Minotaur’s Breath by N.C. Whitehead
Dan’s Blaze by Matthew Longo
In Bloom by Kristine Ong Muslim
Wicked Love by J.R. Pearson
What We Give by BD Wilson
Shine On by J.A. Tyler

Winners of the Lost Innocence Anthology Contest:
Stone Soup by Joshua Gage
She of the Haunted Eyes by Kevin Miller
A Child’s First Casket of Rhyme by J H Hobson
The Ten Second Rule by Felicity Dowker
Outside Her Window, It Waits by John Bruni
Billy Don’t Like Clowns by Jeremy Brooks

Thank you to everyone for allowing me to use your wonderful work in the anthology. I am so excited for September!

Last year I attended The Muse Online Writers Conference as a participant, this year I’ll be going there as a participant -and- a presenter. That’s right, I’ll be there representing Niteblade and answering any questions people have. I’m also really nervous. Last year I noticed some forums didn’t have anyone posting in them — I don’t want to have one of those forums LOL So if you’re attending the conference (and you really should) pop by the Rhonda Parrish/Niteblade forum and say hi. You don’t want me to be sad and lonely do you?

Also, if you are a writer who has been published by Niteblade, there may be questions there you can answer better than I. Questions like, ‘Is Rhonda really the complete ogre we’ve heard she is?’ and such.

To register for the conference you just go to http://www.themuseonlinewritersconference.com/ and follow the registration link. It will take you to a mailing list. Once you join that Lea will send you all the information you need to pick your workshops and such in September.

I hope to see you there!

The Science Fiction Poetry Association is pleased to announce its third annual web poetry contest.

Entries are free and must be submitted between August 1st and August 31st. Poems may be of any form, of 20-lines or less, and must be on the theme of ENERGY. This theme may be interpreted in a variety of ways; these include metaphysical, magical, and mystical, as well as those energies attributed to scientific realms. This is a speculative poetry contest, so submissions must have a science fiction, fantasy, or horror element.

First prize is $100 cash, SFPA website publication, Waterman pen and journal, a signed hardcopy copy of The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen, a copy of In the Yaddith Time by Ann K. Schwader, and a one year SFPA membership.

Second prize is $40 cash, SFPA website publication, an original painting by Marge Simon (the winner’s choice of three), one year subscription to Dreams & Nightmares, and a copy of Riffing on Strings, edited by Sean Miller & Shveta Verma.

Third prize is $20 cash, SFPA website publication, a copy of Lost Innocence: A Niteblade Anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish, and a copy of Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic edited by Karen A. Romanko.

Other prizes include The Poet’s Workshop – and Beyond by Terrie Leigh Relf, M.A., Covenant by Elissa Malcoln, a copy of each available Spec House of Poetry title, and a copy of Passionate Eye: The Collected
Writings of Suzanne Vega by Suzanne Vega.

Please check the link below for more detailed information and guidelines.
http://www.sfpoetry.com/2008poetrycontest.html

I sent the last of the acceptance and regret letters out yesterday. I’m just waiting for the last couple contracts to come in and then I can reveal the table of contents for the Lost Innocence anthology. Yay!

I didn’t have any email bounce but in case the gremlins have been in my email server again and you didn’t get a response, I’m sorry but as I’ve heard back from everyone whose pieces I accepted, I won’t be able to use your submission.

On a happier note, TOC reveal coming up