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Whew! Last week was quite the wild ride, what with a whirlwind blog tour celebrating the release of How The West Was Weird. Today we'll take it down just a notch, with just a few bits and bobs.

If you haven't yet, be sure to head over to The Book Cave for an exclusive podcast interview with editor Russ Anderson and writers Barry Reese and Joshua Reynolds on How The West Was Weird. 

Derrick Ferguson has kindly graced us with another entry in the Movie Review Notebook...this time he takes a look at 1963's The Haunting!

And, if that's not enough for you, we've got the first chapters of both Devil Take The Hindmost, Joel Jenkins' vampire-thriller, and Diamondback, Derrick Ferguson's action-adventure novel up for you to read on our brandspankin' new Denbrook page!

Now how's that for a Monday?

Russ Anderson puts a bow on the HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour by providing links back to all of the week's posts, as well as a couple more links of HTWWW interest.

Derrick Ferguson gets in on the act with his contribution to the HTWWW blog tour today, and gives us a look into what it meant to him to be a part of an anthology like this. Go give it a look. 

In today's installment of the How the West Was Weird blog tour, writer Ian Mileham - a guy who most definitely does not have much experience with the prose western - talks a little bit about the challenges he faced, writing "You Need to Know What's Coming" for the anthology.

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD is available for $11.95 at the Pulpwork Press store and Amazon.com.

Josh Reynolds classes up the HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour by examining the possibilities and trappings of this mash-up of a genre. And he even throws in a creepy bit of weird western flash fiction that didn't make it into the book.

Also, Mike Exner III continues his story-by-story review of the book, this time taking on Ian Mileham's spooky "You Need to Know What's Coming".

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD is available for $11.95 at the Pulpwork Press store and Amazon.com.

The HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour chugs along, as author Joel Jenkins talks a little about the real-life gunfighter and set piece that served as inspirations for his story, "Wyrm Over Diablo".

As a bonus, Mike Exner III continues his story-by-story review of HTWWW by covering three more stories from the book.

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD is available for $11.95 at the Pulpwork Press store and Amazon.com.

Mike Exner III continues the HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour by reviewing the first three stories in the book. Even if you don't have your own copy yet, you can read the first story, Josh Reynolds' "Camazotz", for free at the Pulpwork Press site. Then check out Mike's blog and see if you agree with his assessment.

Mike is planning to continue posting reviews until he's worked his way through all 9 stories in the book. So be sure to keep checking his blog for more HTWWW goodness, even as the blog tour baton is passed to someone else tomorrow.

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD is available for $11.95 at the Pulpwork Press store and Amazon.com.

Artist Jim Rugg kicks off the HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD blog tour by discussing his process for creating the book's cover. Check it out, then, if you like what you see, come back here or go to Amazon and order yourself a copy.

One more day until the official release of HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD... and one more day to get free US shipping on pre-orders when you order through the Pulpwork Press site. Just click on the "PWP Store" link to the left.

Starting tomorrow, the book will be available here and at Amazon... but you'll have to act now to get the free shipping.

I've decided to introduce a new regular feature to the Vaults of Caladrex. For the rest of this year I'm aiming for a weekly feature (more or less) that will be an entry (illustrated by no less than the talented Noel Tuazon) on the denizens, people, and etymology of Mars, also known as the Dire Planet.

Those who have read Exiles of the Dire Planet and Into the Dire Planet will have noticed a number of footnotes detailing certain customs, legends, phrase origins, and practices of the people of the Dire Planet. In this new feature I will be adding and expounding upon those footnotes.

However, I've yet to come up with a name for this new blog feature and I'm looking for some suggestions. Encyclopedia of the Dire Planet doesn't quite have the right ring to it, and Dictionary of the Dire Planet, though it's a great alliteration, doesn't quite do it for me either. Bestiary of the Dire Planet sounds great but the beasties of Mars are only going to be a small portion of the entries--so it's not quite accurate. 

Anybody who makes a suggestion that I decide to use gets a free copy of the upcoming chapbook release of The Blood Vault, which will be released Mother's Day weekend at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. After all, when one thinks of Mother's Day one thinks of vampires-right? No? At any rate, I'll be posting more about The Blood Vault chapbook in later blog postings. Make some suggestions!

-Joel Jenkins