Okay – it’s not a novel, it’s not a collection, and it’s not a poem either. The Horror In The Lodge is a hard-to-find short story about fishing, beavers and Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young. By me, obviously. If you were an attendee at the World Fantasy Convention in […]
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… or to keep in the spirit of things, undead. Couple posts back, I alerted all Yard-apes to a deal cut with Pseudopod, the excellent horror podcast, to do a reading of my story “The Sloan Men.” Well it’s out today, and you can listen to it here. I gave it a listen before heading
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This. Is. Big. At least it is in the limited universe that is the retail potential of The Claus Effect, Karl Schroeder’s and my 11-year-old novel about Cottage Country, the Cold War, and Santa Claus. I’ll start from the beginning… Stopping in at The World’s Biggest Bookstore today at lunch, as sometimes I do, I
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… in the form of a tiny slice of “Wylde’s Kingdom,” available here. The sample is the same one that’s included here, at Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing’s website. But this one comes with a soothing soundtrack (see above). And some wikis…
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Obviously, because “Wylde’s Kingdom,” which is in a fundamental way, all about squid, just like the Squidpunk manifesto says it should be, has not yet appeared. Not that I’m bitter…
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…Lalumière, that being, the editor of Tesseracts Twelve and my story “Wylde’s Kingdom,” of which you’ve all heard plenty on this blog over the past month. Claude also noted my tendency to drone on and on and on about T12 and my great big story, and so assumed that I’d seen the cover for the
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You know, that tag-line dates me more than I’m actually dated. What I mean to say is, “The Sloan Men,” available for free to read here, will be available to listen to here, at Pseudopod, sometime in the near future. Just got word that the well-known horror podcast wants to do an audio adaptation of
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… but not the story collection coming out from ChiZine next year, now that we’ve decided on the title Monstrous Affections. The table of contents isn’t finalized yet (I’m writing a couple new stories exclusively for the collection) but so far there’s nothing in it that violates the Criminal Code of Canada, and calling it
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Contracts are yet to be signed, a title yet to be settled-upon, and two new stories yet to be written — but the news is still good, Yard-apes. This weekend, Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi of the ChiZine machine let me know they’re going to publish a story collection of mine. It’ll come out in
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That being one translation for Ad Astra, although not, in this case, the pertinent one, which reads more like: To the early spring science fiction/fantasy (and horror, a bit) convention taking place in Toronto this weekend! It’s at the Crown Plaza Toronto Don Valley Hotel (1250 Eglinton Avenue East) from March 28-30. For more details,