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Dear Bully, which includes my essay “The Other Side”, made the 2012 Rainbow List.

About the anthology:

“Today’s top authors for teens come together to share their stories about bullying—as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators—in a collection at turns moving and self-effacing, but always deeply personal.”

From Rainbow Books Web Site:

“The 2011-2012 committee of the Rainbow Project, a joint task force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table and the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Queer Round Table of the American Library Association proudly present our 2012 Rainbow List. Titles appearing in bold are selected as part of the Top 10 titles for this year’s list.

A fully annotated list that has been sorted into age ranges will be posted in the forthcoming weeks.”

My co-author, friend, colleague, and fellow pulp and comic book writer Howard Hopkins has passed away.  We wrote a comic book called THREESOME together, containing an adventure starring the Domino Lady,the  Golden Amazon, and Howard’s creation, the Veil.  We had such a good time, and I guess I thought we would again…and again.

He wrote and edited all kinds of things, from children’s horror, westerns, adult horror, urban fantasy (The CHLOE FILES, brand new), pulp, and comic books including the Spider, the Long Ranger, Doc Savage, the Avenger, and Honey West.  He was kind, funny, generous, and immensely talented.  He wrote a recent blog entry was about his uncle, who passed away at a young age during World War II–Howard’s musing on the unfairness of an early death.

I am writing this in Freepor,t Maine, and it had occurred to me this afternoon that I’ll be in Portland at the airport tomorrow…not far from Howard’s house.  I come to Maine twice a year and I had always thought that one of these times, we’d get together for coffee.   Now we never will.

Miss you already, my friend.