I first learned of Alasdair as the genial Serling at the horror podcast Pseudopod, introducing some fine, terrifying horror stories, and also three of my own. He seemed like a very suave dude in podcast – and this spring, when we met up in Brighton at the World Horror Convention, it became clear his suaveness […]
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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
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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
I have no empirical evidence, but I’m going to guess that most regular Yard-apes are not regular perusers of No More Potlucks, the Montreal-based online culture journal. So I commend you to my story “OOPS,” just now gone live in their Mea Culpa issue. Guest-editor Mariko Tamaki approached me to write a Mea Culpa story
Very flattering news from the Sunburst Awards jury, who announced the finalists for the 2010 Sunburst Award for Canadian speculative fiction. While it appears I will remain in the cheering section this year for my friends Karl Schroeder and Cory Doctorow – both of whose books made the short list – Monstrous Affections was one
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