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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Rue Morgue Magazine’s Jessa Sobczuk digs my novel The ‘Geisters and says so, in the magazine’s supersized Halloween edition. There’s nowhere to link–Rue Morgue doesn’t fly with the idea of free content on the website–but allow me to quote her opening: “Award-winning Toronto author David Nickle (Monstrous Affections, Eutopia) masters the art of terror in
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