Some happy news for a freezing cold January morning: the good folks at Iambik have released a nine-and-change hour audiobook of Monstrous Affections, my 2009 story collection from ChiZine Publications. You download it from Audible.com (where you can also download an excellent reading of Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, read by Oliver Nyman). Monstrous […]
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Here, Yard Apes, be the cover for my upcoming novel, The ‘Geisters. It’s due out June 15, 2013. The book is very nearly ready to be edited, and already, ChiZine Publications’ resident cover artist Erik Mohr has come up with this fantastic cover. This will be my fourth book with CZP, and my fourth cover
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The time is coming for SFContario. Toronto’s fall sf convention. This weekend, to be precise. And I’ll be there, at panels and a reading and a kaffeeklatsch. Here are the details: But I don’t know any vampires Our English teachers taught us to “write what you know” But very few of us have been on
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You never want to make too much of co-incidence. Even when everything seems to line up in a perfect line that could only have been designed by a higher intelligence, chances are some other, less magical mechanism is at work. And yet… It is a puzzler. When the new novel Rasputin’s Bastards came out in
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It’s been a bit over a month since the blog tour for Rasputin’s Bastards, and for awhile it seemed like the reviews, mentions, and possibly sales, were going to dry up. But here on Simcoe Day (a uniquely Toronto August long weekend holiday, named after Lord Simcoe (who? This guy)), I can report a few
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I’ve been doing the blog tour thing for Rasputin’s Bastards for the past month or so. In the course of it, I’ve been asked a lot of smart questions and invited to post my own thoughts on a lot of smart blogs. We’ve covered a lot of topics: what’s with the Cold War, what’s with
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This has been quite a week indeed, yard-apes, for a lot of yard-related matters. Hard to know where to begin. There’s been a lot of stuff going on around Rasputin’s Bastards U.S. launch date, but as I think of it that was, for the most part, all according to schedule. So it’s probably best to
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This is a photo from the front of The World’s Biggest Bookstore, just as you come in, in the New and Hot Fiction display. Rasputin’s Bastards is right there, next to The Hypnotist. I think it’s fair to say we’re off. There have been a couple more reviews appear since last we spoke. The Crow’s
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In fact, they may already be here. Rasputin’s Bastards’ official release date in Canada is coming up on Friday; in the U.S., it’s a little later on the 27th. It looks as though the book’s already on shelves (or at least in stores) in a number of Chapters-Indigo stores. And it’s available for pre-order, obviously,
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It’s a good question–such a good question that you won’t likely find an answer here. Better to go visit WhatIsCity512 (Rasputinsbastards.com) the website launched today to offer some tidbits and morsels concerning my upcoming novel Rasputin’s Bastards. You’ve seen the cover on this blog before. The new website, which you can go straight to by