And so the Yard returns the favour, and links back to the Globe!John Barber, the Globe’s publishing reporter, did a little piece on Monstrous Affections’ good reception at Publisher’s Weekly, and put it up on the Globe’s In Other Words books blog. Apparently, this is John’s first blog posting in his capacity as publishing reporter,

My publisher, Brett Savory, sent me a clipping this afternoon. It’s from a rag called Publisher’s Weekly. Apparently they publish book reviews. They published a review of my book. With a star next to it. Here is what it said: Monstrous Affections David Nickle. ChiZine (LPG of Canada, dist.), $18.95 paper (292p) ISBN 978-0-9812978-3-5 Bleak,

… that being the annual outdoor book/magazine/street food festival that happens this Sunday at Queen’s Park Circle in Toronto – not the sly rumor. I’m going to be there. At CZP’s booth, which is #325 (don’t worry, they have maps!), trying to convince passing bibliophiles to pick up a copy of Monstrous Affections. I’m not

Yes, you read that right. We’re having a flash fiction contest, Bob Boyczuk and Claude Lalumière and me. It’s part of an ongoing attempt to 1) find and promote new writers of extraordinarily short fiction and 2) get our ChiZine Publications collections of short fiction in front of said writers. The rules of the contest

Or to put it another way: squee. Just got back from a lunch-time trip to The World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto. And I am mighty pleased to report that the story collection of which you’ve heard so much, Monstrous Affections, is on the shelf there. To be specific, four very-recently-signed-by-the-author copies are there, in the