News? News? What news?
There’s nothing to see here, nothing to glean, nothing to sneak out, nothing being leaked—nothing at all, really. Except, of course, that we should all be watching The Lowdown. Nothing about vampires, though. Why would there be? C’mon.
SFF Addicts
Of which I’m now one. But, always have been, too—especially when it’s got that all-important “H” at the end of those initials:
VE Schwab!
Such an honor to be on her podcast. Only met her A) on the page, and B) once in DC, but hope to see her again and again, out in the world, and on all the bookshelves:
Off the Rez: first couple days
Well, I say “first couple,” but I’ve been on the road since Wednesday, been signing stacks of them to the horizon since Thursday. But, it only officially went live yesterday. Here it is in the big main display in the ground-floor lobby of Simon & Schuster—such an honor to be there: While a lot of
Just Before It Goes Live
Here’s the Off the Reservation write-ups/reviews/list I’ve caught, standing out in the storm: Book Review: Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones – Kerri McBookNerd Book review of Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones Book Review: Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones – Kerri McBookNerd https://hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2026/09/book-review-off-reservation-by-stephen.html Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones:
Final Cuts
Very cool to have gotten to be part of this: https://www.redcircle.com/shows/fd1a282d-c9ad-453d-92e1-7bb0d120e499/ep/77f4b824-06eb-4795-a70b-7763b49d5286h
Turok!
Just announced at New York Comic Con! https://www.ign.com/articles/turok-the-dinosaur-hunter-returns-for-skybound-visions-imprint-nycc-2026 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-26-skybound-visions-gi-joe-transformers-turok/ https://www.buzzcomics.net/showpost.php?p=2019285&postcount=1 probably a lot of &etc, but I can’t run them all down, am doing this fast . . .
British Fantasy Award
man, floored, surprised, honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have won the August Derleth fAward or Best Horror Novel at the British Fantasy Awards. Here’s my Titan editor George Sandison holding it:
Best of September 2026
Man, September has been so ridiculously packed with stuff that I’m a day late, posting this. And? October and November make September look slow. Should be fun. I mean, if I survive.
They’re here . . .
And my phone’s camera can’t quite get the shininess of that skull—there’s something going on there, some very cool raised sort of printing? And those teeth? They actually have CONTOUR. And the endpapers are the same color as the page-edges? And then the story inside, it’s all possessiony, all goopy and dark, and it all
Blue Butterfly Land
some few BlueSky posts about much etc—and, now, animals!—I chanced across whilst waiting in some line over the past week or so.
100 Best TV Shows
Cool list: Let’s see how many of them I’ve seen. Will . . . yeah, I’ll just list the ones I’ve A) seen all the way (will bold the favorites), and B) seen some of, might still be watching (will underline the ones I’m still watching): SEEN SEEN SOME OF And the one I feel
Best Reads from Lately
Looks like way more than the usual ten articles &etc—oops. Sometimes I forget to post these, so they snowball, roll into an avalanche, take out the whole cabin.
Cool Signing Table
At Colorado Festival of Horror Last weekend. Have hung out with Josh a lot, written comic books with him, been edited by him for anthologies, known him for a good while. First time meeting Barbara. She’s super cool: kind and smart. Kind of a dream, getting to sign with her for an hour. And, we