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
Had never seen this
And, I wonder what Jack Donaghy, in his Ronald Reagan cufflinks and his GE everything, would think of it:
An icepick I NEED:
(sounds like a Rick-centric Magnum PI episode, I know . . ) the Ice Pick I meant, up there:
Blue Butterfly Land
a few posts from BlueSky I liked enough to put here, pass on. includes the increasingly robust “Animals” section. which may include a not-exactly-real animal.
Looks to be fun
Like Gary Larsen, I’ve done a few desert island stories. Well, two that I can think of (this one and “Wolf Island”). Maybe more? I have sort of a real problem remembering all the fiction I’ve published. Years and years ago, at a bar in New Orleans, I was talking to a woman who said
Signage
Started finding these scattershot through my directories. This can’t be all of them, but . . . it’s the ones I’ve found so far, in the five minutes I gave myself before ducking back into the novel I’m currently losing my mind in. If you got some, get em to me, I’ll stash them here.
Killer Daily Deal
Not just at Audible. I keep hearing it’s on blue-light special at a lot of the audiobook joints: Like, say . . . . Libro.FM