Angel audio, featuring . . .
https://stephenking.com/news/stephen-featured-in-the-angel-of-indian-lake-749.html
Teenage Slasher ARCs!
Or, lately, I hear these types called “AREs,” for, I think, Advance Reader Edition, maybe? But I like “Copy” better. And I like this one A LOT:
Angel audiobk is an Apple Must-Listen
Too cool. Thrilled and honored. And, check the small-print for the dream-cast:
What’s it like, writing a trilogy?
” . . . those being sort of rare in horror.” A question I got recently. My answer: Horror trilogies are kind of a hat trick, aren’t they? Hard to pull off—no, hard to get away with. I mean, in horror, if too many of your characters make it through to the end, then . . .
Site health: much better
Same theme—I need one with A) menus at the top, B) branching submenus, and C) a right panel/column—but everything’s moving much faster now. Upgraded my WordPress hosting stuff, cleaned up a lot of stuff behind the curtains, and . . . I can finally again do galleries, I think. A little test, just using random
First copy of Angel!
Can’t wait for y’all to hold it too. I mean, “read it,” “live it,” “feel it,” definitely. But it’s beautiful just to hold. It’s beautiful just as a textual artifact. Embossed matte cover, with spot-gloss. Such cool interior design—those claws! Couldn’t be more thrilled. On the shelves, or your mailboxes, very-very soon, here . .
Bram Stoker Award Finalist!
Such an honor for Don’t Fear the Reaper to have lucked its way onto this so-packed, amazing ballot. Just to be in the presence of great writers and books is the real win, yes? I’ve read all these, and they should each win:
Best Reads from Lately
(trying to do these more regularly, so they don’t get so loooong) A Brief Visual History of On-Screen Text Messages in Movies and TV https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/mexican-drug-cartel-targets-six-native-american-reservations-in-montana-203999301848 (hard to call this “best,” yeah. but: good to read/know) Report: 84% Of Super Bowl Ads Specifically Intended To Distract From Human Rights Violation https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/world/vittrup-man-bog-body-denmark-scn?cid=ios_app https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/
Chainsaw and Reaper stuff
http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2023/12/audiobook-review-dont-fear-reaper-by.html http://deadm15.blogspot.com/2024/01/review-dont-fear-reaper.html https://es.babelio.com/livres/Jones-Mi-corazon-es-una-motosierra/190054/critiques/252567 In the Nevernever: My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones https://www.instagram.com/p/C1vQ_jqrEah/?igsh=eW1xdHhsazN0N3lk
Early Teenage Slasher:
https://www.audible.com/blog/article-most-anticipated-listens-2024 https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-angel-of-indian-lake-1803129 https://www.instagram.com/tonyshorrorcorner/p/C1aXBP_rVgT/ https://katelynwrites.medium.com/book-review-stephen-graham-jones-the-angel-of-indian-lake-6005651837ef http://www.publishersweekly.com/9781668011669 Book reviews: P. Djèlà Clark’s Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ann Leckie, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more
Angel of Indian Lake begins . . .
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/93879-spring-2024-adult-announcements-sf-fantasy-horror.html https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/fiction/the-most-anticipated-horror-books-of-2024 https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Horror-Prepub-Alert-July-2024-Titles Let Us Feast: 10 Horror Books to Crave in Early 2024 | Book Riot https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/our-most-anticipated-books-march-2024/
Few lists and reviews
Elky, Werewolfy, Mappy, but Chainsaw and Chainsaw-adjacent stuff (the trilogy) will be in a different post, as this one’s tall enough already: https://the-line-up.com/edgar-allan-poe-readalikes https://readinghabits.substack.com/p/the-best-books-that-are-currently https://www.vulture.com/article/books-like-true-detective-night-country.html The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones – Baddie Book Reviews http://mespassionsmesenvieslemondedemarie.blogspot.com/2023/12/un-bon-indien-est-un-indien-mort.html The Best Graphic Novels by Speculative Fiction Authors https://www.themarysue.com/best-comics-and-graphic-novels-of-2023/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C2U2MYDLypV/?igsh=MTYwbjF1eDFjN3dqOA%3D%3D http://www.paperbackwarrior.com/2024/01/night-of-mannequins.html https://www.comics-culture-project.fr/post/eerthdivers-tome-1 http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2023/12/graphic-novel-review-earthdivers-vol1.html Time Travel Is Bloody:
Few More Interviews
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-19/stephen-graham-jones-the-horror-novel-helps-settle-scores-for-the-massacre-of-american-indians.html https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2023/12/21/how-pen-novel-put-your-hearts-blood-page And a cool interview in here, which . . . may be available to download at some point? Looks like some previous issues are:
When in Spain, 2023 version
Was there in November—Madrid first, then Barcelona, right up until Turkey Day here in the States—but started that vampire novel right after, so: am only just now posting the media from that week and a half there. Not sure where all the photos &etc ended up, but, here’s what I find, scraping Twitter: http://capsulaslj.blogspot.com/2023/11/mi-corazon-es-una-motosierra.html https://elpais.com/cultura/2023-11-17/stephen-graham-jones-la-novela-de-terror-ajusta-cuentas-con-la-masacre-de-los-indios-americanos.html
Back to it soon (the site)
Been ignoring everything I could get away with ignoring since Dec1: started a novel that day. Finished Saturday. Think I said on X or BlueSky that it’s my first vampire novel, but . . . realizing now I actually wrote another back in 1999. But it wasn’t good enough even to mess around rewriting. Some
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/science/the-doctor-s-world-ingenuity-and-a-miraculous-revival.html The Insane True Story of How Doctor Wesley Snipes Wrote His First Novel | LitReactor How ‘The X-Files’ changed pop culture and the internet as we know it | CNN https://www.cnn.com/style/ancient-skeletons-shoes-jewels-rome-scn?cid=ios_app https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-rock-art-painted-by-aboriginal-people-depicts-indonesian-warships-study-suggests https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1742667620220866811?s=46&t=mhZCLAE0iAiaHztioYOVjA https://news.yahoo.com/native-tribes-getting-slice-land-110008943.html https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/06/03/filmmakers-chronicle-aftermath-blackfeet-flood-1964/1287588001/ https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-january-4th-acceptance-speech https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/nyregion/human-burial-pet-cemetery.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/world/largest-ape-gigantopithecus-blacki-extinction-scn/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/americas/oldest-skin-fossil-scli-intl-scn/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/endangered-jaguar-spotted-in-arizona-previously-unknown-to-us/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/television/reacher-women-dad-tv.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/upper-sioux-agency-state-park-community-1862-treaty-minnesota-dnr/89-c6c71df2-d64f-4aa5-adb7-82bbe1e1277d https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/world/fossil-grasshopper-nest-eggs-scn/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/americas/indigenous-language-chana-blas-jaime.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/27/blackfeet-nation-lily-gladstone/ (https://apple.news/AiNH_lxBBSRaTAbjTPLrgTQ) First-ever sighting of a live newborn great