As you may have read elsewhere, I’ve had the rights to my books returned to me from my now-former publisher, ChiZine Publications in the wake of significant troubles, allegations and revelations that I won’t detail here in this post. The rights reversal means that all of those books will soon be out of print: Monstrous …
Last week, I joined Leeman Kessler – the YouTube star / municipal politician / voice of reason / world-class dad behind the web series Ask Lovecraft (pictured above with Martin, during a recent visit to Toronto City Hall), for a long chat on his Facebook/Youtube show Lovecraft After Dark. I was briefly mortified looking at …
“…a political, psychological and philosophical allegory of remarkable depth and ambition: the most intellectually provocative horror novel of the twenty-first century.” That is a pull-quote, from Alex Good’s review of VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination (read the full review here) that went live at The Toronto Star on Sept. 29. It is more specifically, …
I have a confession to make — about something I’ve been carrying around for years, for at least seven years — since I submitted the manuscript for EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism to Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi at ChiZine Publications. And it is this: in the original early draft, Jason Thistledown, one of …
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As the release date grows nearer for VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination, we offer a small treat: the entire prologue, which appeared in a slightly different form in my 2014 collection Knife Fight and Other Struggles. The prologue takes us to a certain Munich beerhall, in the years after the War to End all …
We are coming upon the day, now, when the new book drops. VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination is slated to hit bookstores and mailboxes of those who pre-ordered August 22. And we have been busy, fixing typos and checking translations (this is the kind of book that has translations in it) and laying out pages. …
Below: An excerpt from an early chapter of VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination (due on bookshelves and from sellers in August 2017, from ChiZine Publications). This is a sequel to my 2011 novel, EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism. A lot of VOLK takes place in 1931, in a land far away from the …
Last year was a good year for short story publications, as I may have mentioned, and I’ve talked up a lot of them. I want to come back to one for a moment: “The Long Dream,” which is a story that was solicited by Joe Pulver, a little over a year ago, for his dream …
Here is an awkward, year-end post of the sort you’ll be seeing a lot of from author-types: the awards-eligible-stories-for-the-coming-year’s-award-season post. I don’t normally do this. But while 2016 has been a terrible year for many things, it has been for me at least a pretty good year for short story publication. Even with two story …
This one’s been a long time coming, and it’s going to be a little bit longer: the sequel to my 2011 novel EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism*. The book is due out from ChiZine Publications a bit less than a year from now; the manuscript is not yet ready. But this week, my friend …