A week ago now, I was in Ottawa along with Madeline Ashby, to read at the ChiSeries Ottawa September reading. Silver Stag Entertainment was also there, and made a very good video recording of my reading of “Drakeela Must Die”, one of the thirteen stories in the new collection, Knife Fight and Other Struggles. I […]
Knife Fight and Other Struggles is coming out in a month, but the first review has hit the streets already, in the venerable Canadian magazine of arts and progressive politics, This Magazine. And I am delighted, and as always relieved, to report that reviewer Braydon Beaulieu dug it. He likes the stories, the juxtaposition, doesn’t
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It’s only a bit more than a month now before my second story collection, Knife Fight and Other Struggles is set loose upon the world. The book has some never-before-seen stories, and a couple of fairly old stories, and quite a few stories that have seen print over the past few years. Two of those
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When I went down to New Orleans last year to visit the World Horror Convention, I had just a few things on my to-do list. I wanted to see the town, sample its cuisine and take in some jazz–promote The ‘Geisters, the book that I had coming out that year, as much as was graceful–and
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As you’ll have seen from the last post, I’ve been pulling on the coats of some writers whose work I admire to have a look at Knife Fight and Other Struggles, the new story collection out in October 2014. Laird Barron got back to me a little while back (see the last post) and some
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A lovely blurb came in today for my upcoming collection Knife Fight and Other Struggles, from none other than Laird Barron–who’s leading the 21st century movement toward neo-Lovecraftian weird fiction through a clutch of excellent stories (collected here, here, and most recently here) and a novel (here). Laird has this to say: “Knife Fight and
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Here it is: the Erik-Mohr-designed cover to my second story collection, Knife Fight and Other Struggles. It’s coming out in October, but it’s up for pre-order at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Chapters-Indigo, Powell’s, and of course ChiZine Publications. The book’s filled with 12 stories (13 if you count the special bonus prologue to my next
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A heads-up, Yard-apes and others with an interest in adding a little maple flavour to their noirish imaginings: I’m co-editing an anthology of new Canadian noir stories. There’s not much to say beyond the guidelines: so here are the guidelines: NEW CANADIAN NOIR The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir guidelinesFor The Exile Book of
I’m going to be at SFContario this weekend: a very cool little Toronto convention, located right in the downtown core at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, 300 Jarvis Street (here’s a link)..And I’ve got a schedule of panels and whatnot. Here’s the gist of it: Ballroom BC Sat. 12:00 PM You Can Kill Zombies, But You Can’t
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All the kids seem to be doing this lately: putting together a list of the music that helped inspire their new books, sort of a mix tape for readers, a bit of an aural window into the writer for the curious. Stephen King did it here for Doctor Sleep; Joe Hill did it here for
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