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 […]
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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
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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,
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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
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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
Rose Fox is the genre fiction editor at Publisher’s Weekly and the author of the Genreville blog. Last year, PW gave Monstrous Affections a starred review. Then Rose put it in the bottom end of her top ten sf/f/h books for 2009. And now, she’s done it again. In her Feb. 23 blog entry, as
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It was just over a week ago that I met up at east-end coffee shop Tango Palace with Devon Wong, the literature and theory correspondent for steelbananas.com – a very cool webzine that subtitles itself ‘that post-pomo variety show’ – and his photographer, Matt, for a chat about Monstrous Affections, the art of horror and
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Some time back, I mentioned that Monstrous Affections was nominated for a Black Quill Award, for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. Well today, I found out that it actually won the award, in the Readers’ Choice category. Which means that readers of the webzine Dark Scribe Magazine old and new weighed in on which story
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I was really torn for a minute there. Brett Savory put out word yesterday that the Table of Contents of Tesseracts 14, the next edition of the long-running Canadian sf anthology he’s co-editing with John Robert Colombo, will be revealed shortly. Because it is a big secret. Some time later, I got this… email from
I’m beginning to think that my hometown of Toronto has more in common with Arkham, Innsmouth and Dunwich than just its aura of loathsomeness to the rest of the country. Turns out this town is, like Innsmouth, a bastion of eldritchery. Case in point: Joseph Nanni, a local H.P. Lovecraft fancier and film-maker of great
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