Well I’m back, from England and Brighton and the World Horror Convention. The business end of it was pretty straightforward, and went very well. We had to get there on Thursday in time to launch ChiZine’s line of books that night. This, we did – with a certain amount of gusto, I think. Gemma Files, …
I’m going to be at the World Horror Convention, cheerful but bleary-eyed after a red-eye flight from Toronto to London, and a bus ride to Brighton, on Thursday morning. If you’re there, Yard-ape, say hello. I’m not signed up for any programming, alas – I got my membership after all that had been finalized. But …
I know I promised not to write about feelings (see the Yard’s mission statement to the right of this post). But as the case of my friend Peter Watts and the guards at the Blue Water Bridge sinks in, feeling seems to be all I’m doing. So while this might be a good time to …
The news of this hit me hard this morning. Peter, you may recall, was beaten and pepper-sprayed while crossing the Canada-U.S. border at Port Huron, Michigan. For his troubles, they charged him with resisting arrest and assaulting a federal officer – a young man named Andrew Beaudry, who accused Peter of attempting to choke him …
This is Elmore Leonard’s first rule of 10 rules of writing. And it is a good one. He doesn’t say anything about opening a blog posting with a picture of the weather, though: particularly this knobby bit of ice at the end of the Leslie Spit in Toronto, photographed by me, on a freezing cold …
This is a note for U.S. yard apes that might have been thinking about getting ahold of Monstrous Affections but were feeling stymied by its spotty availability. For a few weeks now, Amazon.com’s been promising more stock real soon. And who knows where the books are available on the ground? Two bits of encouraging news, …
This evening, I’m planning on spending some time at the Bitten By Books site, along with fellow Tesseracts Thirteen authors – for a part of a day-long marathon online interview-fest, in the continued launch of the chilling edition of the Canadian sf anthology. My story, “The Radejastians,” is an innocent enough story about the benefits …
It’s not as bad as it sounds. Today, the Great White EBook Shark took a bite out of Monstrous Affections. But ever since that Benchley incident back in the ’70s, sharks have really gotten a bad name when it comes to playing rough. The Great White EBook Shark website is a very constructive kind of …