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The Darkside of Eden, my very first poetry chapbook is now out in ebook format on Smashwords!

From 6-9 April, it is 50% at US$0.99! Use coupon code PT65J at checkout.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/51618

Tales of the Talisman, Volume 6, Issue 1 is out, with another lineup of exciting stories and poems. I’m thrilled that my poem “Earth 2007″ is in such great company.

My poem Mercury Rising appears in this exquisite issue of Tales of the Talisman, graced by the eternal Marilyn Monroe.

The poem is about the survivors of a flooded Earth, now living in skyscraper-sized Habitats in orbit around Venus.

It was written back in 2007 during a sudden burst of inspiration along with 2 other still-homeless poems I’d neglected to find a home for.

Although it is a premise that has been explored extensively in many literary mediums, in poetry, such tragedy and triumph can always be remolded into a thing of laconic beauty.

Tales of the Talisman can be ordered here and its TOC here.

This was one of the funnest projects I’ve been privileged to be involved in and with such great company too. The Exquisite Corpuscle, in the words of its editors, is “a literary game of telephone”.

Edited by the fabulous Frank Wu and Jay Lake, this project also includes: Kenneth Brady, Alan DeNiro, Richard Doyle, Michaela Eaves, M.C.A. Hogarth, Michael J. Jasper, Aurora Lemieux, Kristin Livdahl, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Tim Pratt, Bruce Holland Rogers, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Nigel Sade, Maia Sanders, Heather Shaw, Diana Sherman, Gary W. Shockley, Matt Taggart, and Greg van Eekhout.

The anthology is centred around a theme: the exquisite corpuscle, and one person creates his or her interpretation and then hands it to the next who then interprets it in another medium. The result is an amazing collection of work and a really cool bio section at the end.

It arrived today in the mail (the mailman actually caught me on the way out and so thankfully avoided it being squashed and mangled in my tiny mailbox), and I wore a silly grin for half a day, shushing everyone so I could have a good look at it, read Frank’s intro, pored over my poem and bio. After being out of the writing scene for such a long time, it is wonderful to see my work again in print.

Thank you, Frank, for including me in this grand and exquisite project!

Pop by Fairwood Press today and check it out.

Each chapter in life is a season. With the closing of one door, another opens.

With motherhood I have found a quiet peace, far from the buzz of the information highway.

That’s not to say I do not miss it. I still look upon women in business suits in envy and salivate whenever someone says they’re crazy about WoW.

Then I remember, I have done it all. I’ve smelt the sweet scent of success on Wall Street, raced through the pixel plains of the Arathi Highlands.

And now, summertime has come for me and the shadows have faded into the fading darkness. With new life comes a serenity unparallelled and a beauty and a new meaning of what life really is all about.

In my new poem ‘Your Birth Day’, I chronicle the surprise and the ecstatic joy at my son’s birth. It appears in the current issue, #21, of The Journal.