Regular yard-apes may recall a post or so ago, I let on that my dad, Canadian Landscape painter Lawrence Nickle, would soon be illustrating the special signed, limited edition hardcover of my novel Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism. Well, now that the snow’s set in at the North Pole (a.k.a. Burk’s Falls, Ontario), dad’s […]
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It has only been a couple of days since we finished the proof-reading of Eutopia, my novel about eugenics and gunfighters and monsters. But already, it’s up for pre-order here, at The Horror Mall, in it’s high-end, $50 collectable hard-cover edition. There’s a more affordable trade paperback that will be available at the same time
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This weekend, I believe the Santa Claus Parade will be kicking up heel in downtown Toronto. Well too bad for Santa. This weekend is also a big celebration for Tesseracts and Edge, at once here in Toronto and Alberta. Tesseracts is, of course, the long-running sf/f anthology series that began when Judith Merrill edited what
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For those of you who missed CZP’s Speculative Fiction Colloquium last month – here is some video, of my entire talk: The Care and Feeding of Horror: How a Very Unpleasant Emotion Became a Very Unstable Genre. This video has been made available by CZP and the Chiaroscuro Reading Series. For more information on next
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A moment of silence, for Miles – the four-year-old black tabby who carved a groove on my shoulder and a deep, infected gouge in my heart. As you can see by the picture above, he was an agile, merciless little familiar of a cat – named for Miles Davis, so as to make a matched
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Here it is, in its hideous glory: Erik Mohr’s cover art for my novel Eutopia, which blends the early American eugenics movement, industrial utopianism and terrible monsters, and of which you have read so much in past postings. Erik is the evil genius responsible for my story collection Monstrous Affections‘ cover, and it’s clear that
Not my book trailer – but this one’s worth sharing. Bruce MacDonald (of Highway 61 and more to the point, Pontypool fame) shot this trailer for Tony Burgess’ new book out of CZP, People Still Live in Cashtown Corners. So turn down the lights, yard-apes. And prepare to be un-eased.
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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
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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.
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