I did manage to drag myself – for a mere hour, I could have stayed three times as long – tp the small press fair at Hugo House this weekend, and got to visit editors and publishers of Wave Books, Ashanta Press, Manic D Press (weird, but cool) and journals like Crab Creek and my own Raven Chronicles (my special guest-edited humour issue will have a reading this May! Only two or so years after I put it together! LOL.)
I also ran into my friend N. who gave me a truly amazing present – a book of art postcards called “Drop Dead Cute,” featuring art by contemporary Japanese women artists. The work really helps me think in the mood of my second manuscript – anime-like but twisted – check out some of the artists in the book here (Aya Takano) and here (Chiho Aoshima) I’ve put the “drop dead cute” address book on my birthday wishlist. I wish I could make cool visual art the way I envision poems. Chiho does subway-sized exhibits – soooo very cool.

In other news, if you’d like to read Suzanne Frickshorn’s review of Becoming the Villainess from Diner’s latest issue, click here!