captainsblog | Serial killing

My absolute favorite benevolently evil dictatrix of a publisher posted these two, seemingly unrelated, notes on the Plus last night. First, this:

Candlemark & Gleam is looking for submissions for a new anthology of alternate-world spy stories. Got anything?

Please share/repost!

http://www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2011/10/17/call-for-submissions-new-anthology/

Followed, in unfortunately short order, by this one:

So some of the people who preordered Alice are going to get a special extra surprise, seeing as I have slashed my hands open on the damn books about six times.

I'd tossed off a quick and probably-not-appropriate idea for a submission and didn't think much more of it, but after a good (okay, a not-so-good ::glares at the dog::) night's sleep, the evil genius in me realized that this sequence was not a coincidence.

And so, I give it to you. Possibly fatally:

A benevolently evil dictatrix of a small-town book publisher, with a secret laboratory behind the once-loaded wall racks of her former gun shop of a home, designs a long-lasting, highly communicable, instantly painful, and potentially fatal bioweapon, with which she plots to infect the entire nation, payloading copies of it in swaths of blood "accidentally" smeared on the cover of her latest book.

Fortunately for the survival of the world, she has also sequenced the vaccine. But if you want to get THAT, you have to buy the sequel.

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As for the real serial killer of the week: it's getting a little crowded in the Miami Metro psycho ward, as a day later, I'm still not sure if Dexter was the fifth sickest individual in this past episode or only the sixth.

1. Mount Edward James Olmosmore.
2. His faithful Colin Hankyolyte.
3. Cranky old Get Your Tooth Off My Lawn Guy.
4. Ryan the intern a/k/a The Gurl With the Pearl Ear. Or Hand.
5 (tie for now) Mos Def.
5. Mos Dex.

Not to mention Deb getting pretty squirrelly herself here.

Time, I guess, will tell. And time is also what I am feckin' out of. Damn court:P