Matt Betts tries to explain himself

Having an awesome time at Readercon. This is the first con I've been to where A. The dealer's room is only books. and B. The dealer's room has poetry. Lots and lots of yummy poetry books.

They're selling my chapbook at the SFPA table and they're also selling the CinemaSpec anthology that I have a flash piece in. That was a nice surprise - looking down and saying "Hey, I'm in that one!" First time that's happened!

I'm very excited that voting has started for the Rhysing Awards! A copy of the anthology was emailed out few weeks ago and all the work is terrific! It's definitely an honor to be nominated. I'm reading all these great poems and I can't believe my piece, Godzilla's Better Half, is included among them! It's going to be tough to decide where my votes are going with so many excellent choices.

Voting ends in early July, and they'll announce the winners at Readercon, which is now less than a month away.

Continuing the speculative celebration of poetry month with more stuff - recently added an essay on spec poetry and a link to some more favorites online.

Giveaways coming up this week!

I'm celebrating National Poetry Month with posts at mattbetts.com all month about where to find good speculative poetry online.

I got an email from the Science Fiction Poetry Association yesterday informing me that my poem "Godzilla's Better Half" has been nominated for a Rhysling Award!

Hey! I wrote a blog post about Steampunk for the Writer's Digest Guide to Literary Agents. Stop by and say hello!