Indigo and Buffalo Hunter Hunter
30% off pre-orders until January 5:
Best Reads from Lately
Okay, maybe “12” is a better round number for these? I seem to be not-great at remembering “10.” Surprisingly thick ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa complicates hunt for life | Science | AAAS https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/science/mirror-bacteria-research-risks/index.html Archaeo-Histories: “A 2300 year-old Horse Headdres…” – ohai.social https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/europe/baby-mammoth-russian-crater-preserved-intl-latam World’s Deadliest Rat Can Kill An Elephant With 1 Bite How
Best of 2024
Craziest fullest year. Think I had eight weekends in a row where I was doing an event in a different city—well, I say “eight,” but . . . I actually ended up having to cancel the eighth, Miami. Was bummed, as the Rock Bottom Remainders were performing. But, knee was all sloshy with cortisone from,
Best Reads from Lately
Well, almost posted this before it went over “10?” And, this post looks way-weird on the main/”home” page. But, it’s normal once you click. Who knows. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/26/nobel-prize-all-that-glitters https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/science/neanderthal-fossil-extinction-grotte-mandrin-france/index.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14174993/dogs-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-mutated-new-superpower.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/neanderthals-may-have-had-explosive-strength-thanks-to-their-bell-shaped-ribcages/ar-AA1vOaLC https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/scientists-discovered-50-000-year-old-viruses-in-neanderthal-dna-that-could-help-explain-their-mysterious-extinction/ar-BB1nKNuC http://www.jmdematteis.com/2010/09/story-behind-huntagain.html https://open.substack.com/pub/briankeene/p/letters-from-the-labyrinth-407 https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/william-gibson ‘Dog-Like’ Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal – Newsweek Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom
Trading Cards
Few of these have shown up, but I’ve been forgetting to post them. Maybe I’ll get a pack at some point too? But I doubt I snap this nice a pic of it:
First Buffalo Hunter Hunter review?
I mean, outside Goodreads and Netgalley. First one I’m getting linked to, anyway. And, something about that domain name, it sort of . . . speaks to me:
Good list of indigenous lit
Maybe you can see it if you’re not Bluesky? Not exactly sure how it all works . . .
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Blurbs so far
“For me and vampires, there is Stoker, there is Rice, and now there is Jones. It’s harrowing, agonizing, nuanced, and downright philosophical. Very likely Jones’s masterpiece.” —Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall “Stephen Graham Jones has lit a slow-burning candle that grows into a forest fire, illuminating the life of a Pikuni vampire and everyone
Grab bag of links & lists &etc
Stashing them here before the madness of travel and holiday and a new semester get me to forget completely: https://www.popmatters.com/bleed-into-me-stephen-graham-jones https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/202598.Horror_to_Look_Forward_to_in_2025 Most Anticipated Horror of 2025 – She Reads Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025 – Cinema Chords https://sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/sadie-hartmanns-mother-horrors-must https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/best-horror-books-of-2024 The Best Horror Fiction of 2024 ‹ CrimeReads https://sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/sadie-hartmanns-mother-horrors-must
Hey: Bats
It went away from where it used to be, but . . . it’s back, sort of, if you click from post to reply to reply:
Best Reads from Lately
Will require some real vigilance on my part, which is far from my strong suit, but I’m gonna try to post these each time the counter gets to “10.” Like this: https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/948440-we-are-now-ready-to-tackle-dickens-we-are-now# https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-restaurants-new-recipe-cost-her-life-parents-on-a-mission-to-make-changes https://knewz.com/world/archaeologists-discover-neanderthals-seaside-cave-with-60-000-year-old-glue-making-oven-stunned-by-the-construction Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’ –
Lettering protocol for comic books
100% agree with this. And, in addition, I so like stabbing a colon down at the END of a balloon, then putting that post–colon matter in the NEXT balloon (usually with a bridge between the two balloons). However, I found out pretty quickly that I’m the only one who’s a proponent of that. But .
Slasher Symposium
Or, rather, somebody recorded what we do when we all find each other in the lobby of a con: talk slashers!
Dead links
If anyone skating through here catches one, maybe reply under this? Now that comments are finally working again . . . Speaking of, need to go back a few posts and open comments on everything. Wish I could set it as default, not have to remember to do it manually, but should probably just be
Couple of cool best of the year lists
Honored for Tolly and Ambs to be on them both. Library Journal: And NPR: