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

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