This is not the first time I’ve sent praise in the direction of Erik Mohr. It may not even be the first time I’ve posted a blog entry devoted to this clever, diabolical cover designer from northern Ontario. But given recent internet activities surrounding my collection Monstrous Affections, certain things are becoming clear. A large …
For those of you who haven’t checked it out, might I recommend the Innsmouth Free Press – the website of the newspaper that’s been covering the community of Innsmouth above and below sea level since the Old Ones walked the Earth. It is a magnificent journal, of which the denizens locals are justly proud. And …
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The downside of selling out the first print run of your story collection in late November, is that all through December, no one can find the damn thing on Amazon.com.* Hopefully, this didn’t ruin Christmas for too many yard-apes – or worse, cause them to inadvertently pay $200+ from the online book dealers at Amazon. …
That’s the kind of header you get when you have no one thing but many unrelated things to talk about in one day. So let us get to it, Yard-Apes. First, thanks to Daniel Rabuzzi, whose novel The Choir Boats was released to much happy fanfare from ChiZine Publications, about the same time as Monstrous …
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… in Bob and Dave and Doug’s Flash-Flash Fiction Contest, and they’re right here, at ChiZine Publications’s website. Dedicated yard-apes may recall that the contest to find the best short-short-short story (300 words or less) closed to submissions last month, with promises that January 2 we’d come up with a winner and two runners-up. The …
… appropriately enough. While the rest of us were whooping it up last night, counting down the end of December 2009, the literary web-zine January Magazine was posting its best fiction of 2009 piece – a list of just over 20 books that its editors liked best from the past year. They liked all kinds …