Does the Moon understand itself to be orbiting the Earth? Leaving aside the point that it almost certainly hasn’t the wit to even wonder, I can imagine that it would not. It would have no idea how much its course in the universe depends on the gravitational presence of its companion. But take that companion […]
In the orbit of Lorna Toolis – 1952-2021 Read More »
At the ends of most of the years I’ve lived through (and there have been more than a few), the little miseries and disappointments of the previous 365 days were generally ones unique to me, so when I looked back on a year, I’d keep those to myself, or tell a few close friends, or
The Last Word on the Plague Year 2020 Read More »
Strictly speaking, it’s relaunch day. But however you cut it, today is the day. Just about a year after my former publisher ChiZine Publications returned the rights of my backlist, here they are: four novels and two short story collections, available in ebook and (mostly) print, from my new publisher Open Road Integrated Media. These
Launch Day for the Library Read More »
In fall of 2002, I joined a big crowd of moviegoers in the old Varsity Cinema in downtown Toronto, to watch a horror movie about home video that was outmoded even then. Gore Verbinski’s American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ringu is about a cursed VHS videotape, made by a psychically powerful and profoundly angry
Considering the Sadakovirus: A rewatch of Ringu in the Plague Year 2020 Read More »
Finally it can be revealed: four new covers for four back-in-print books of mine. Specifically, my novels Rasputin’s Bastards and The ‘Geisters and my short-story collections Monstrous Affections and Knife Fight and Other Struggles, are back in print. They’ve got new covers, designed and applied by their new publisher, Open Road Integrated Media. I’ve been
Here at last! The new covers for two novels and two collections Read More »
Back in the before-days, I always did enjoy me a book launch – particularly if it was one of my own, but I also dug book launches of dear friends and colleagues. We’d get together at a bar or a bookstore, or a bar and a bookstore, or sometimes a public library – and there’d
The Eutopia/Volk Socially-distanced, Online Relaunch / Book-Signing Event, 2020 Read More »
Jason Thistledown’s mama was tall and beautiful and strong; stronger of arm than many a man and more powerful of spirit than any two. Yet in the end it was not a man nor two nor even a gang of them, but a damn germ that killed her. -From Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism,
The Cave Germ Revisited, in the Time of COVID-19 Read More »
It was more than a decade ago now that I started work on what would become my first solo novel: Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism. Its working title was Mister Juke – named for the monster at the heart of it, a shape-shifting, parasitic creature that shapes the brain structures of communities of faith
The Book of the Juke – Eutopia and Volk Read More »
This is a big moment in the life of my old blog The Devil’s Exercise Yard, and also a couple of my old books: Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism and Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination. To start with, the blog. For more than a decade, the Devil’s Exercise Yard and I have been
Eutopia and Volk are Live… and The Yard has a new home! Read More »
I’ve been sitting on this news for awhile now, but with contracts signed and deal announced, I can finally spill: my backlist that had originally been published with ChiZine Publications will be republished under the Open Road Media banner. Here’s the official announcement that went up today (May 1, 2020) at PubLunch courtesy my agent
Meet Open Road Media, my new publisher Read More »