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… when leading up to what can only be described as a fulcrum moment in the history of America – and, one hopes, a terminus in the somewhat shorter history of Amerika – you doze off. There’s Obama, coasting along with something more than 200 electoral votes, Stephen Colbert on Indecision 08 desperately changing the […]

I say out-ish, rather than out, because the official launch is in a few days at the World Fantasy Convention in Alberta, and although you can purchase it here and here, I have yet to see it in a bookstore. But I post now to note a very kind review, from noted author and critic

That being the consensus mind of judges into this year’s ChiZine short fiction contest (of which I was one). A few posts back, I copied a list of our top three winners. Well, now they’re online, here, in the latest issue of ChiZine. Go look. They’re good. And free.

I say this never having met the fellow. But he’s got to have some smarts for pulling Tesseracts-Eleven, Cecil-Street-Irregulars pal-of-mine Madeline Ashby’s story Fitting A New Suit out of the slush-pile and posting it on his E-Zine FLURB. This is Madeline’s second fictional appearance (and the first one you get to read for free) and

Well, I’m back now, from my weekend at Polaris — where we spoke of Balthar’s nosebleed and Dexter’s fake orgasms; Cronenberg’s Dracula and Cordwainer Bird’s The Starlost; novels that are too long to sell, and stories that are too short to bother about. All in all, a good, busy weekend out, spent talking to people

I’m going to Polaris in Toronto this weekend! As a guest! With television actors! Some explanation may be in order. Polaris is a big old science fiction convention that until Star Trek effectively went away a few years back was Toronto Trek. Now it’s a convention devoted to SF with a media slant, with a

Okay – it’s not a novel, it’s not a collection, and it’s not a poem either. The Horror In The Lodge is a hard-to-find short story about fishing, beavers and Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young. By me, obviously. If you were an attendee at the World Fantasy Convention in

Obviously, because “Wylde’s Kingdom,” which is in a fundamental way, all about squid, just like the Squidpunk manifesto says it should be, has not yet appeared. Not that I’m bitter…

… in the service of keeping the Yard current, and cat-friendly – here’s another slice-of-life animation from the fellow who brought you the last cat cartoon on this blog.

… a blog starts posting cat videos.