This entry is meant for active members of the Horror Writers Association only, so as for the rest of you, I am now gesturing hypnotically while incanting, “This is not the post you’re looking for.”

Now that we’re alone and I’m speaking just to those active HWA members …

Recommendations for the Stoker Awards close exactly one month from today, on January 15, 2009. According to the most recent Bram Stoker Award Recommendations update, my short story, “Petrified,” which appeared in Desolate Souls, the World Horror Convention souvenir program book earlier this year, seems to be garnering some attention.

If you happen to be an active member (and how could you be anything else but, since everybody else disappeared as soon as I cast my spell above) and would like a copy of the story for Stoker consideration, this is a reminder that you can either go to the rec list and click the provided link for a download, or else drop me an e-mail and I’ll send it to you as an attachment via return e-mail or snail mail it to you on dead trees, whichever you’d prefer.

I am now gesturing hypnotically once more, so the rest of my readers can return.

As you were.