And we’ve got plenty to be thankful for here at the Yard. The reviews have been good for Monstrous Affections, the writing on the new project of which we shall not speak has been going well, and next week, the Yard will be putting on its best duds and heading off to the Writer’s Trust …
… of monsters, in an interesting and provocative way, can be found at the Chronicle of Higher Education today, in Monsters and the Moral Imagination by Steven T. Asma. For long-time monster-afficionados such as we, his revelation that a close reading of Dracula ” will reveal not only a highly sexualized description of blood drinking, …
… a lot of launching in Toronto on November 14. ChiZine Publications is going all-out on their fall lineup, which includes my collection Monstrous Affections, for what amounts to a day-long festival of signing and sipping and chatting, in two very cool locations. The day starts at Bakka-Phoenix, Toronto’s venerable sf bookstore, at 2 p.m. …
Okay, back to the stupid collection. Quill & Quire’s November edition features a fantastic review of Monstrous Affections (which was starred) in the midst of an also-fantastic piece about ChiZine Publications and its fall releases, Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière, and The World More Full of Weeping, by Robert Wiersema. I cannot link to …
… it’s also, some days, about the Devil’s Exercise Yard’s honorary Sergeant at Arms, Tom Waits – the razor-throated troubadour who a year and a bit back announced his Glitter and Doom tour’s schedule to the usual room-full of reporters. Well, turns out he wasn’t just faking. There was a tour. It went to places …
And so the Yard returns the favour, and links back to the Globe!John Barber, the Globe’s publishing reporter, did a little piece on Monstrous Affections’ good reception at Publisher’s Weekly, and put it up on the Globe’s In Other Words books blog. Apparently, this is John’s first blog posting in his capacity as publishing reporter, …