Monstrous Affections has been getting face-time, as it were, at some pretty high-traffic spots lately. Just last night, I was reliably informed that io9, the sf/f/h news spot, featured a portion of the cover in this posting right here, about the success of independent sf publishers at the end of the publishing world. And earlier […]
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People came by during the day, different people came by at night, and at the end of it, nobody could accuse ChiZine Publications, me, Robert J. Wiersema or Claude Lalumiere of failing to launch our books in Toronto on Saturday. I don’t know about anybody else, but I had a fantastic time, reading and signing
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I figured that periodical was done with Monstrous Affections, but apparently… not quite. Rose Fox, the author of Publisher’s Weekly’s Genreville blog (and PW’s editor for science fiction, fantasy and horror reviews), has put out her Top Books of 2009 list for fantasy, science fiction and horror. And while Monstrous Affections didn’t make the top
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There’s a new edition of Monstrous Affections out, and this one utterly dispenses with that paper and glue and ink that have come to define all previous editions. This one’s all digital, from digital cover to digital cover, and suitable for reading on your i-phone, e-book reader and laptop computer. Dedicated yard-apes may have already
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I actually do not know if William Lyon MacKenzie C.I. has a team called the Lyons. But I do know that the North York collegiate has a weblog called The Lyon. I spent some time on it this morning, reading and reflecting on how much more intelligent and insightful todays teens are, as compared, say,
And we’ve got plenty to be thankful for here at the Yard. The reviews have been good for Monstrous Affections, the writing on the new project of which we shall not speak has been going well, and next week, the Yard will be putting on its best duds and heading off to the Writer’s Trust
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… of monsters, in an interesting and provocative way, can be found at the Chronicle of Higher Education today, in Monsters and the Moral Imagination by Steven T. Asma. For long-time monster-afficionados such as we, his revelation that a close reading of Dracula ” will reveal not only a highly sexualized description of blood drinking,
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… a lot of launching in Toronto on November 14. ChiZine Publications is going all-out on their fall lineup, which includes my collection Monstrous Affections, for what amounts to a day-long festival of signing and sipping and chatting, in two very cool locations. The day starts at Bakka-Phoenix, Toronto’s venerable sf bookstore, at 2 p.m.
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Okay, back to the stupid collection. Quill & Quire’s November edition features a fantastic review of Monstrous Affections (which was starred) in the midst of an also-fantastic piece about ChiZine Publications and its fall releases, Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière, and The World More Full of Weeping, by Robert Wiersema. I cannot link to
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… it’s also, some days, about the Devil’s Exercise Yard’s honorary Sergeant at Arms, Tom Waits – the razor-throated troubadour who a year and a bit back announced his Glitter and Doom tour’s schedule to the usual room-full of reporters. Well, turns out he wasn’t just faking. There was a tour. It went to places
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