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Apologies for the radio silence here at the Yard. But here we are, just days before I’m to appear at the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium at Hart House, and here I am, posting about it. The colloquium is taking place in Hart House at the University of Toronto – and the day long event will feature […]

In November, I’ll be at SFContario, helping inaugurate this new Toronto science fiction/fantasy convention. I’ve got a schedule – with readings and everything you might hope for. And here it is: Friday 8:00 PM GardenviewSmall Press Publishing.How do you get started in small-press publishing? What’s the currentmarket like and what role does the small press

It’s an appropriate title for a blog taking a look at Monstrous Affections, don’t you think? Brett at CZP pointed me to this thoughtful review of a couple of stories in Monstrous Affections – and of the cover, which I would say is more The Kind of Face You’d Hate To Love.

Eutopia is my upcoming novel, acquired some time back by ChiZine Publications. It’s a novel about the early American eugenics movement, utopianism, and a terrible monster – taking place for the most part in May 1911. Well it turns out Eutopia will be hitting shelves just one month shy of the story’s centennial. ChiZine’s announced

This post should, I hope, prove once and for all that this blog is not just about me, me, me. It is also about my friends: this morning, convicted felon and now Hugo-winning sf author Peter Watts. I got this news from various sources in Australia and beyond, where Peter lost a bet and actually

This is a public service announcement (and also a helping-ChiZine-deal-with-sloppy-tweeting announcement). ChiZine Publications, the publisher of my story collection Monstrous Affections and my forthcoming novel Eutopia, is doing just fine. So’s their parent webzine, ChiZine. You wouldn’t know it if you were a-Twitter today, when a fiend bastard sloppy Twitterer posted a note that ChiZine

Long-time yard apes may recall some trouble awhile back, when we reported the theft of a prized artifact from the Nickle-Fernandez back deck: the Hell Skull of Goran. It was a deliciously evil sculpture by a once-local sculptor name of Goran, and it was going to be hellaciously, as it were, difficult to replace. The

It’s been a week since we drove up to Sudbury to take part in Words in the Wilderness’ maiden voyage – and at last, we have downloaded photos. So I thought I’d take the opportunity to sing the praises of the little literary festival that will hopefully become a regular thing in years to come.

This just in: I’m heading north in a couple of weeks, to talk horror, literature and blackflies in Sudbury, at the brand-spankin’-new Words in the Wilderness Literary Festival. It’s being organized at least in part by Ken Lillie-Paetz, and it’s a week-long festival to draw together writers and artists and readers from across Ontario. I’m

It is that time again – the height of the summer, when our heat-poached brains turn to television and movies and bright, exciting stories presented in a variety of dimensions. Also Polaris – the media-favouring Toronto sf convention that is taking place weekend after this one, in Richmond Hill. For the past few years, they’ve