Hello, landlubbers. I am writing this from a room at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, on the Toronto Islands, currently quarantined by a long-running municipal workers’ strike that has stopped the ferries from running. The Islands, for those of you not from around here, are a Village-like setting on city parkland just off […]
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I got off the phone with her son Leo – and that was one thing he was very clear about: don’t say Phyllis passed away, or passed on. She wouldn’t have tolerated that kind of imprecise, beating-’round-the-bush talk about something as straightforward as death. So Phyllis died, at 83, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto
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There’s no objective evidence at all, of course, that the 10K run I did this afternoon, after 10 months being down with a very nasty heel spur, had anything to do with the curative powers of Polaris, the media-centric sf convention I attended in Richmond Hill this weekend. And yet… …after… Coming up with the
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That’s right – I’ll be at Polaris this weekend. Polaris being the CRT-and-LCD-focussed media sf convention where we talk about television and the movies and a bit of the fiction. I have panels, and a reading, and a signing, in my home-town of Richmond Hill this time. It is at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North
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The last story I read by Peter Watts made me blind for the afternoon. Click on the link to understand that last sentence, and also see the blog posting by my friend and fellow cephalopod-fancier Peter Watts that sent the number of hits on the Monstrous Affections pimpage page literally into the hundreds over the
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Last fall, dedicated yard-apes may recall a promise I made to finish up a story called “The Webley” that would dive into the nougatty middle of Nickle family history. Well, that story’s finished, and has found its way to one of the two anchor spots in Monstrous Affections (which is now into week four of
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It’s been a relatively quiet Week 3 in the Book Pimping department, although not an insignificant one. Bought a small ad in the programme book for Polaris, but there’s no point in mentioning that here now because nobody sees it until the pedal hits the metal at the convention itself. Which takes place a month
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It’s been a good Week 2 for Monstrous Affections, my story collection that isn’t available for anything but pre-order, but has been that since May 26. There have been shout-outs and an interview and other shout-outs, and a shiny new banner, and all of it has served to propel the book to number six on
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…and me, is live now here. It’s actually more of a meta-interview over at BSC Review, in that Claude and I interviewed one another, despite the fact that both of us are furiously pimping our story collections. Claude’s, Objects of Worship, comes out a month before mine, Monstrous Affections. Both from Chizine Publications.
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… Cory Doctorow was kind enough to give Monstrous Affections the collection and The Inevitability of Earth the pod-cast a shout-out at boingboing, right here. Elevated my mood seriously, particularly after I learned that this infernal beauty wasn’t for sale. (lolskull photo by Karen Fernandez)
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