Well, it’s New Years Eve. Soon I will be putting on my ritz-pants for the evening’s celebrations. For now, I am working on mid-point outlining for the very secret project of which we must not speak. And also, recalling how much I like Amanda Palmer, and wish I’d made it to a show like this …
With just days to go before the end of the year, Quill & Quire reviewer Alex Good has put together his 2009 year-end summation at his blog/website Good Reports. There’s not a top 10 list, or a bottom 10 list. But there is this: “It’s customary to end the year with a list of highs …
A quick year-end shout-out for Monstrous Affections Read More »
Happy hols, yard-apes – and smoke ’em if you got ’em:
… the second printing of Monstrous Affection ships. Last week, ChiZine honcho Brett Savory let me know that new copies of my ordered-out story collection were in Canadian distributor LPG’s warehouse, and should be shipping to those who’ve ordered ’em Tuesday. Which means that Amazon.com, which has listed the book as ‘vanished’ for the past …
Okay. Peter Watts is free right now (although that freedom could well be fleeting). And he is not a squid (although that is what his friends call him). Nonetheless, I’d like to direct you to Free The Squid, a comprehensive website set up by U.S. fan Chris Knall over the past few days: freethesquid.org. It’s …
Just heard last week from the folk at Pseudopod, that my story in Tesseracts Thirteen, “The Radejastians,” will be adapted for podcast sometime soon. This will mark the third story of mine performed on the long-running weekly horror fiction podcast. To get a sense of how it might sound – go listen to the first …
It’s been two days since we began fundraising for Canadian sf writer Peter Watts’ legal defense – and the response from around the world has been staggering. The money that’s come in to date will see Peter financially solvent through the first hump of this ordeal – so thank you, world – but we have …
Bakka-Phoenix Science Fiction Bookstore is taking donations for Peter Watts Read More »
I got a detail wrong in the account I gave of Peter Watts’ incarceration, in the post below. I had understood that he had been released from custody in Port Huron, wearing nothing but jeans and a denim shirt, during a snowstorm – then walked across the bridge to Canada. In fact, officials in Port …
This posting might seem redundant coming as it does at 6 p.m. on Friday afternoon. But I honestly thought that waiting just four or five hours after putting the word out to Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi about my friend Peter Watts’ nightmarish legal situation, I would still be timely in posting a plea for …
We drank tea and ate scones and sang Cthulhu Christmas carols and carried on like the risen dead at the Merril Collection – and as a final Christmas miracle, my laryngitic voice held out long enough to render a uniquely terrifying reading of “The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement And Then Take Questions.” As …