Some happy news for a freezing cold January morning: the good folks at Iambik have released a nine-and-change hour audiobook of Monstrous Affections, my 2009 story collection from ChiZine Publications. You download it from Audible.com (where you can also download an excellent reading of Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, read by Oliver Nyman). Monstrous […]
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Here, Yard Apes, be the cover for my upcoming novel, The ‘Geisters. It’s due out June 15, 2013. The book is very nearly ready to be edited, and already, ChiZine Publications’ resident cover artist Erik Mohr has come up with this fantastic cover. This will be my fourth book with CZP, and my fourth cover
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The time is coming for SFContario. Toronto’s fall sf convention. This weekend, to be precise. And I’ll be there, at panels and a reading and a kaffeeklatsch. Here are the details: But I don’t know any vampires Our English teachers taught us to “write what you know” But very few of us have been on
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You never want to make too much of co-incidence. Even when everything seems to line up in a perfect line that could only have been designed by a higher intelligence, chances are some other, less magical mechanism is at work. And yet… It is a puzzler. When the new novel Rasputin’s Bastards came out in
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It’s a good question–such a good question that you won’t likely find an answer here. Better to go visit WhatIsCity512 (Rasputinsbastards.com) the website launched today to offer some tidbits and morsels concerning my upcoming novel Rasputin’s Bastards. You’ve seen the cover on this blog before. The new website, which you can go straight to by
Hey Yard-Apes… please don’t be offended, but my first blog post in many weeks is not here, but over at Tor.com, for Monster Mash week: Swimming with the Fishes. I hold forth on the pallid charms of creatures beneath the sea for quite some time, skimming the surface, as it were, on such subjects as
It’s been awhile since I’ve had a story interpreted by the folk at Pseudopod – the venerable horror podcast. They’ve always done a fantastic job of it with three of my stories previously – The Sloan Men, The Inevitability of Earth and The Radejastians. Today, Steve Cropper’s reading of my story Looker (originally published in
A little electric contraption inside played a song every time you opened it. Da, da da Da. Da, da da Da. He hadn’t heard the song in nearly ten years, but he would have recognized it even if it hadn’t been Sarah Michelle Gellar on the front of the card: wooden stake clutched in one
It wasn’t much of a horror at all, actually, going down to Texas this past week for the World Horror Convention. Coming back on the day of the Federal election… well, that was another matter. But the WHC 2011 in Austin, Texas, was pretty much a joy – an exercise in southern comfort, taking place
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