Author name: SGJ

Transmotion

Want to know more about #ShirleyJacksonAwards nominee Stephen Graham Jones? Check out my review in Transmotion of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of SGJ by Theo Van Alst & The Critical Companion to SJG from @BillyJStratton https://t.co/o5MDhQZFMA @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/UfVAuHsab8 — Nadhia Grewal (@GrewalNadhia) May 15, 2018

Order Sacred Smokes

You will be very happy you did, because THEN you get to read it. This blurb from @SGJ72…thanks, man. pic.twitter.com/luQ2Qoz8X5 — TVAyyyy (@TVAyyyy) May 14, 2018

Essential Reading

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/   https://entropymag.org/on-junot-diaz-and-the-literati/

All my Jasons, Gather Round Me

For many of us out in the fansphere, this isn’t just the dream, this is the perfect nightmare. Which, yes, is kind of am empty statement. What I’m trying to say is: Could there possibly have been anything even halfway as cool as this? [Images] SIX Jason Actors Got Back into Their ‘Friday the 13th’

Shirley Jackson Awards

Wow, so cool—great ballot to be a finalist on. Luck to all: https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/  

Encino Man Cometh

Every time I see this, I get excited all over. Because? If a wooly rhino can be frozen in a frozen place for 39,000 years, then . . . so could a Denosivan. I mean, maybe a Neanderthal too, but Denosivans were in the more tundra-ey places, so I think they’re the better bet. In

Thanos #spoiler

He’s Adrian Veidt with a cosmic version of the Redeker Plan, yeah? It’s a good build for a bad guy. I miss his old “I want to kill half the universe as a gift for Death, whom I love love love”-angle from the comics, but I think this version plays better. Or, it doesn’t have

Exactly

not sure how to embed the thread, so here’s the top one anyway, which leads to the rest: I wanna talk about ~historical accuracy in worldbuilding for a bit, particularly in secondary world fantasy. Because it’s something that’s come up in discussions w/ friends lately and it won’t let my mind go. So. A mini-thread!

1428 Elm Street

Well, across the street, really. Glen was probably 1427, 1429 if it was a packed street. With bigger lots, no telling. Either way, this is about as cool as it gets: Johnny Depp getting ready for a big scene in Nightmare on Elm Street pic.twitter.com/S7qfssh2Uf — Rare Horror (@RareHorror) April 24, 2018

Oh yeah: I’m not on Facebook anymore

Guess the body of this post is pretty much in the subject line up there. Maybe again someday? Who knows. Just deactivated, didn’t delete. Wanted to see what the other side is like. But I’m still in birdland, should anybody need me. And I’m on Litsy as well, having fun. Not on Instagram, though. Reason?

LARB on Mapping the Interior

Billy Stratton on Mapping, for LA Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-habitations-of-specters-on-stephen-graham-joness-mapping-the-interior 

This is Horror

Wow, too cool—Mapping the Interior lucks into a This is Horror Award: This Is Horror Awards 2017: The Winners

Mapping the Classroom

End of class board full of notes after students shared articles and podcasts on the fabulous Stephen Graham Jones @SGJ72 – as we discuss connections to #MappingTheInterior ! #amteaching #amreading #horror pic.twitter.com/xOXAeAttAq — Crystal of Steel (@colearydavidson) April 18, 2018

This week’s mail

Three books I have stories in (Devil got kind of damaged en route, but, I mean: shipwreck, right?).

The Tax Man Cometh . . .

Have had an accountant for a few years, am now an LLC, but I never understood taxes even partway until this guy broke it down into bite-sized chunks for me and the world: Tax tips for freelancers from a comic book writer

‘Tis True

@SGJ72’s typewriter. pic.twitter.com/yGatOBZuuF — Jason Truitt (@JasonHGTruitt) April 14, 2018

A Quiet, Well-Lighted Place

The Shining is great and amazing and permanent and iconic and all that good stuff, of course, but one thing it has going for it that very, very few other stories ever get is that it instantly activates our imagination—immediately upon hearing the premise, we put ourselves in that situation of being winter caretaker for

The Horror Crossroads

@AlanBaxter was cool enough to rig this together, as I’ve got the words, but not the photoshoppery:  

At that Customer Service Switchboard

Man, this post plus the last one, you’d think I just troll these here internets, waiting for something that, to me, evokes one of my books. But? This one. C’mon. Having to work the call center for a defunct video game? That’s exactly the premise of The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti: Nintendo support will

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