So, these judges, they were all huddled together over pizza and beer, and they got to daring each other this and that (I hear there’s pics), and it finally came down to seeing if they could slip a clown into the novelette category, strictly for fun, because who could win again Stephen King and Laird […]
Should you need to run me down: ( http://starland.com/ ) 8:00pm Friday night, that triple feature. The poster’s down below here, or bigger in my “etc” photo album. I’m introducing, in this order, DEAD AND BURIED, THE KEEP, and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (also: lots of cool trailers). am more than likely going to get
In case anybody needs me next/AWP week, these are the places I definitely plan on being, though of course I’ll be trolling the bookfair for swag as well, and haunting lobbies, and skulking around busstops, and generally making a nuisance of myself in various restaurants. And, no, I don’t know where any of these places
Anybody catch that “Little Lambs” story of mine IRON HORSE ran a few months ago? One of my favorites ever. Looks like it’s coming out again in November, in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s THE WEIRD:A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK FICTIONS. Couldn’t be happier about that.
Which, isn’t that an old TC Boyle story? It always stuck with me, anyway. But, only mentioning it because it means ‘snow,’ and snow’s in this story of mine up at Juked, “Snow Monsters.” My snow story’s not nearly so long as “Termination Dust,” though. And, also, there’s “Monsters” in the titlte, which never hurts.
New story up over there, here. My claim is that it’s all made-up. Except for the animal parts.
setting: Austin, Texas characters: – a father – his daughter – various chupacabras – various border patrol agents – some people to kill righteously publisher: Trapdoor Book2. synopsis: the story of the reconciliation between a daughter and her long-gone father, as complicated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zombie place in The Bunnyhead Chronicles:
Very proud to be part of Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthology this year. Proud to be under a cover this cool, too:
looks like that “Lonegan’s Luck” (a zombie western) I had in NEW GENRE a few months ago’s going to be in The Best Horror of the Year volume 2, ed. by Ellen Datlow. Very cool, very excited.
For me, anyway. However, the caveat — movies I haven’t seen yet: THE HURT LOCKER: the title kept me away, yeah. very undescriptive. or, maybe makes perfect sense afterward, but none before. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER: dug the trailer, did the actors, heard great stuff about it, but, being not-horror, it kept slipping down the
not based on a true story So I read more fiction than non-fiction. It’s a moral failing, I know: I prefer the make-believe. Too, though, I mean I write fiction. Makes sense to read it, yeah? Where else am I going to learn technique, cue into little narrative shuffles this or that writer pulled off,
In Five Words or Less: Boring title, good movie. In More than Five Words, with / without spoilers: In 1998, Sam Raimi adapted Scott Smith’s debut sensation A Simple Plan (1993) for us, and, though a lot of the narrator’s nuances were lost in the compression, still, Smith had written a strong enough dramatic spine
AVATAR 3D in IMAX, wow. it’s SCANNER DARKLY and FERN GULLY and BRAVEHEART as percolated up through DANCES WITH WOLVES and POCAHONTAS. loved it in spite of those last two, even. and, though I can’t find it in his bibliography now, I was pretty sure I’d read a Samuel Delaney book/story about wearing bodies like
which is what Bo and Luke used to always do, once the day’s chases and jumps and explosive archery fun was over. but, for me, “Jukin” is having another story in the cool JUKED. “Wolf Island.” completely safe for work, unless you work at a pet store.
new (old) story, “The Many Stages of Grief” (one of my maybe four favorites ever. of mine, I mean. which, yeah, that’s like 180th in the Great List of Stories I Love). the debut issue of PALIMPSEST. Also, a short story “Girls” (only a third as good as the Crue song, yeah) and an essay,
New interview. All kinds of fun, as always. If I remember correctly, too, that pic there, the shirt I’m wearing, I borrowed it from somebody in the driveway of the photographer’s. Had a red outline of the state of Arkansas, I think. Kind of liked it, but then he wanted it back. People (okay: one
Especial for Halloweentime, “The Ones That Got Away,” the somewhat-title story from the new collection and proud participant in Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace’s Phantom: Going Beyond the Scare.
One of the big axioms of storytelling is that you know a character best by the decisions he or she makes under extreme circumstances. It’s why you push your characters out into the street, see how they react when traffic’s slamming in from all sides at once. Granted, you can rig your story so that
Got an article/review/essay (‘response?’) up for it over at Popmatters. Kind of wanted to call it Geppetto mon Amour, but figured that might show my roots too much. Those being all in France, yes. The LINK. Would slap some cool images up here, too, but the guys who do the art over at Popmatters have
I read this review then, no lie, went upstairs, found some shrimp on the counter, ate them. which, for those in the know [see below], kind of matters. too, I’ve noticed my blog posts in here lately are more ‘blog’ posts, as in, they take the space where a blog post would go, but, really,
“In the Beginning” and “The Wages: an Argument,” over at the brand-new shiny sparkly SpringGun Press. Really strange that they posted this morning, though — or, that that Wages-one’s real now anyway. Because I just now started the already-excellent Pontypool Changes Everything, which opens like this: That night I had terrible dreams I was killing
One of my favorite Bowie songs, sure, but, too, the name of a story of mine up over at Everyday Genius today.
