When I say John McDaid, I mean the John McDaid who blogs tirelessly about Rhode Island politics, who writes science fiction so well he won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction with his first sale, “Jigoku no mokushiroku”, in 1995, and with whom I hang out for one week a year at the Gibraltar […]
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Monstrous Affections, the story collection of mine of which you’ve heard so much, is now available for pre-order at ChiZine Publications*, which is the most righteous way to pre-order the book. You can click right here, make the necessary arrangements, and the book will be delivered to your home / business / anonymous post office
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Actually, it’s been in bookstores for a little while unofficially. But now the first-ever terror-themed Tesseracts is officially out from EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Editors of Tesseracts Thirteen are Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell, and contributors include me among others. There’ll be a launch in Toronto September 12; we already spoke of that,
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… and how awful it would have been, were it not for having spent the last two weeks of it swimming, canoing, kayaking, not-bear-hunting, finally watching Twilight, and working on a top-secret new project, on a lake near Temagami, Ontario — that looked like this: … or for the fact that summer’s not technically over
I’m back, from Worldcon in Montreal – and it was a fantastic time. I didn’t make it to as much programming as I’d have liked, but there was business to attend to: the launch of my collection Monstrous Affections, along with ChiZine’s other fantastic titles; the launch of Tesseracts Thirteen, Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell’s
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Actually, a U.S. District Court judge strikes back. According to an article in the Pensacola News Journal, a little place called Dinosaur Adventure Land is about to be seized by federal authorities, to pay the $430,000 owed to the government by the park’s founder, Kent Hovind. It makes me happy and it makes me sad:
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Turns out my schedule at Worldcon this weekend will be a little busier than I’d thought. Since we last weighed in on where I’d be and what I’d be doing there at what time, I’ve added a couple of panels to the roster: a 10 a.m. Sunday panel talking about the perils and pleasures of
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Here is something else to do with your disposable income at Worldcon next week: buy a copy of Tesseracts Thirteen. The anthology series is going grue for number 13, curated by Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell. My story, “The Radejastians,” will be in there with stories by these folk: Kelley Armstrong; Alison Baird; Rebecca Bradley;
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Well, here we are. July 31. Those of you who RSS this blog may get this final, desperate pitch in time to act. For the rest of you, this posting represents a somber coda for this journey of book pimpage we’ve all endured – er, enjoyed. Today, sales for the collectable signed, limited edition hardcover
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Time does fly, when you’re procrastinating about buying a limited edition of my story collection Monstrous Affections. Here we are, at about the end of July — two months after the collector’s hardcover went live at The Horror Mall. Soon, it will be live no longer, and the opportunity to purchase said hardcover will be
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