So cool
Have gotten similar snapshots from friends moving through airports. Never not the best. Why we write, yes? To be in airports, on planes:
Indigo’s Best Horror of the Year
Honor for I Was a Teenage Slasher to be on this list. Thanks, Canada:
Wordfest 2024
Couldn’t have been a better time. Before I got there, this showed up in the Calgary Herald: Then, shuffling towards Customs, I saw people posing by this sign, so I sneaked my own pic: Then that night, it was a cool event with Jeff VanderMeer—been too long since I’ve seen him: And, Saturday, an event
Shelfie
Hey, think I may have worn one of those pairs of rabbit ears, at a signing somewhere in Colorado:
Telluride HorrorShow 2024
Another great year at 9000 feet—but, weirdly this time around, no pics from the campfire event? Or, none I saw, anyway. But, a cool panel: Cool screening: Got to hang out in the street and at many tables with friends: And, us Indians, we hang out in the corners, at bars: And, saw this on
Scare Up the Vote
Honored to have been a small part of this—raised better than $20,000! And, somehow, I’m the only horror writer who thought to bring a chainsaw: Full recording:
And the August Derleth British Fantasy Award
for best horror novel . . . goes to Don’t Fear the Reaper! Amazing. Unexpected. The absolute coolest–highest honor. Thanks, all.
#SGJDay1
#SGJDay Such an unexpected honor for so many readers to have pulled this off—thank y’all so, so much. A once-in-a-career thing, maybe? Anyway, even got picked up by news outlets: And, I can’t possibly paste all the coolness in here—it’s all under that “#SGJDay” link up top—but here’s me in it:
Recent interviews, podcasts
https://www.montanapress.net/post/rez-gothic-stephen-graham-jones https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/09/06/stephen-graham-jones-slashes-his-way-texas-literary-history https://www.facebook.com/litcleveland/videos/374698455696741 https://www.kvcrnews.org/2024-07-14/stephen-graham-jones-on-his-novel-i-was-a-teenage-slasher
Best reads from lately
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/95910-tim-o-connell-takes-the-reigns-at-saga-press.html Ancient DNA adds to evidence debunking theory of Easter Island collapse | CNN https://link.lithub.com/view/602eabc6180f243d654b95celuktr.1hwp/d8c149cc https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-rise-of-indigenous-horror-how-a-fiction-genre-is-confronting-a-monstrous-reality-1.5323428 https://www.livescience.com/animals/bees-wasps/parasitic-horror-wasp-that-bursts-from-a-fly-s-abdomen-like-an-alien-xenomorph-discovered-in-mississippi-backyard Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe, our research shows Shakespeare was an Alien!. It’s the only possible conclusion… | by Eric Armstrong | Medium
Robert McCammon to the rescue
Thanks to Benjamin Percy for the heads-up. And, man, if only I had the nerve to ever do something like this. I’ll jump off whatever, walk into dark places, stick my fingers in light sockets, all that. But, this? This is far beyond consideration, for me. Not because it’s rap. Because it’s doing something remotely
Columbus, Ohio
Thanks for bringing me here, Columbus Metro Library. Will put these in before/during/after order: It was exciting getting to see @sgj.bsky.social speak at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in the company of my friends from HWA Ohio. He even signed my book afterwards and told me my shirt was cool! (It's the anime-style shirt of a
Tucson, Tucson, Tucson
Man, what a cool city, a cool landscape. Sort of fell for it. Couple pics from being there (WLA), via Billy Stratton and Theo Van Alst.
The Heart of Columbus
Well, I mean: seemed like a pretty grand subject line? Anyway, I’m there Sunday, 2pm: