Featured Performance - Vetted Word, May 5th at Project 1

VettedWord's one year anniversary party is on May 5th - One year of Actors, Poets, Musicians, and Storytellers performing at the VettedWord monthly events. I'll be reunited with the other features from the past year, as we perform once again for your listening pleasure. 7pm, Project One - 251 Rhode Island St., San Francisco.

Dark Wolf's Fantasy Review

Have a look at Dark Wolf's Fantasy Review Blog, and read two questions answered by Bram Stoker Award Nominees, including me.

BARFODDER makes Final Ballot for 2009 Bram Stoker Awards

Cemetery Dance Publications is pleased to announce that BARFODDER: Poetry Written in Dark Bars and Questionable Cafes by Rain Graves has made the final ballot for the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards in the category "Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection". Here is a link to Locus Magazine Online's list of all the nominees.

BARFODDER makes Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

Here is the list of wonderful books and stories currently nominated for the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot, courtesy of Dark Delicacies. Thanks to all the HWA Members who nominated BARFODDER: Poetry Written in Dark Bars and Questionable Cafes, and to those voting for it to get on the final ballot. I'm surprised and delighted - there are so many good poetry books out there (many of which are *also* nominated on the preliminary ballot, too).

Interview and Book Review at Black Glove

Though the photograph is old, there is a "Featured Poet" interview with me by Karen Newman up at Black Glove Magazine in the Stabbed In Stanzas section, followed by a book review of BARFODDER.

New Flash Fiction Story at Freezine for Fantasy and Science Fiction

I have a flash fiction story up at Freezine for Fantasy and Science Fiction called "Mau Bast," which hasn't been previously published, though it did take second place in one of the many WHC flash fiction contests (Ellen Datlow was a judge that year, I recall). Here is the direct link to Mau Bast, but make sure you check out the other stuff up. Johnny Strike (of CRIME fame) has a story there too.

Not Neccessarily a Book Tour - October Updates

OCTOBER 2009

10/28/2009 - Rain's Birthday!

10/29/09 - 11/1/09, World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, CA.

tentative schedule...please check your program books for final schedule.

Thursday 9:00 PM With Me, Poetry Has Not Been a Purpose, but a Passion.

With works like "The Bells," "The Raven," and "Annabel Lee" Poe applied his dark romantic sensibilities to the art of "beauty in words." Today, according to former SFPA president (and Nebula nominee) Mike Allan "science fiction poetry, fantastic poetry, speculative poetry, whatever you wish to call it, forms the core of a lively, thriving scene that coexists with genre fiction in many venues." Join us for readings by poets active in the vibrant speculative poetry genre, and bring your "dark romantic," fantastical, horrifying or science fiction poetry to read. Gwynne Garfinkle

Friday 11:00 AM - Poetry of the Fantastic

Imaginative poetry from antiquity through modern times. The participants will discuss some of the notable authors and works as well as reading short selections. Rain Graves, David Lunde, Michael Allen Shea, Donald Sydney-Fryer, Stephen M. Wilson

8:30pm - Mass Autograph Signing

JUNE 2010

(location & date TBA) Bram Stoker Awards Weekend.

06/12-07/3, 2010 - BLACK-OUT DATES - NO BOOKINGS AVAILABLE IN USA (Possible dates in EUROPE - inquire via email with your request.)

SEPTEMBER 2010

9/16/2009-9/19/2009 - Mill Valley, CA. Hostess of the Haunted Mansion Writer's Retreat.