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Litsy and ZBO
This may be my favorite of all the Zombie Bake-Off Reviews. It’s my favorite from eight years after it came out, for sure:
Four years, man
Doesn’t feel like it. To me these stories are stil churning in my head. Thanks, Richard.
Goats and Crabs
Hey, it’s that runaway goat I was writing about it in “Exodus” (check #5 there, say), lo those many years ago: https://nypost.com/2018/08/09/rogue-goat-may-have-helped-dozens-of-farm-animals-escape/
Name these critters
Because I can’t. I mean, the this one‘s built like a moose, but it’s colored like a paint horse—a shetland, maybe, or a wild horse with a winter coat: It’s definitely not a horse, though. Look at those hind legs. And this one‘s . . . maybe a white raccoon? The legendary ghost coon? Whatever
Old Dreams I Still Have
Living and dying by Magnum PI growing up, I of course fell head over heels for this color scheme: However, helicopters being far from any reality I knew, and trucks being ALL of my reality, I of course, then, wanted a truck with that color scheme, as Ford was doing in the late seventies: Is
a Pre-Shark Week Listicle, with Teeth
Reading David James Keaton anywhere is always a good time, but especially at LitReactor. Cool to have a shark book on this list: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-ten-shark-books-that-are-in-my-house-just-in-time-for-shark-week
The Deer & the Owl
Hey, this tweet got enough hearts that, were it Link, he’d now be functionally immortal. But I guess this is A link, anyway: Never know if you don’t try pic.twitter.com/OIncv7WrqJ — Stephen Graham Jones (@SGJ72) July 21, 2018 Anyway, yes, I subscribe to that philosophy. It’s a big reason I have so many scars, so
When Colorado feels like West Texas
#Denver #tractor #slowspeedpursuit pic.twitter.com/jBQTEzlK9o — garbuckle (@gazucci) July 21, 2018
Pirates & Pirating
Man, looks like I’m just embedding tweets here all day—I did just wrap an extensive novel rewrite about five minutes ago—but, here’s another one, a good one, an important one: Dear person who decided to upload an e-ARC of THE GIRL IN THE GREEN SILK GOWN to an illegal download site more than a week
Don’t Eat Crazy
Tom Paris, saying aloud the creed I live by, pretty much. And? This is my only persistent problem with intergalactic humans in stories: they always come out of warp at some Mos Eisley of a truckstop and just eat whatever’s being served. I can’t help but think that would be instant death. Not just of
Guess this means I’ve made it?
Or, one of my books has, maybe: Anyway, he’s my new favorite fighter. Thanks to Bill Wetzel for headsup.
The Silent Game
Clicking through stories for bad links, I refound this one, and, man, it’s got to be the coolest-formatted story I’ve ever had come up on these internets. I wrote this story back in . . . I’d guess about 2001, maybe? Possibly even earlier. Cool it’s still around: And, that’s just a screencap. Click it
My two favorite things from the Internet this week
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/diagnosis-female https://local.theonion.com/biggest-guy-in-prison-tired-of-every-new-inmate-beating-1827063562
Blood Quantum
It’s so jacked up. It’s also—”it” being my tribe’s retention of it—why Mapping the Interior and its kind-of follow-up (to come) never once say “Blackfeet”: because of current policy, I don’t think it’s a big enough term. Anyway, Robert traces through it in a compelling way here, once you click through: I, along with my
Thanks, Gabino
Author appreciation tweets, day 3 of 10: @SGJ72. One of the most versatile writers in the game. A unique, powerful voice and a mellow, humble man who’s a pleasure to talk to. A master of horror, crime, bizarro, and everything in between. Oh, and Mongrels is a masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/VDEZx9n79j — Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) May 24,
Same
the antiques shop around the corner flies the only flag i salute pic.twitter.com/gvNZe097cE — Rumpus Bumpus (@RumpusAndBumpus) May 17, 2018
Booksellers
They’re the best: Reasons to pick up a novella: literally pocket sized (for you or your friends). Also great reasons: *Quick-read style of a short story *But with novel depth *Great price *Great variety (check out some of our faves from @tordotcom in our SFF section)#bookshopshenanigans pic.twitter.com/mk7mhlXFRT — Bookshop Santa Cruz (@BookshopSC) May 17, 2018
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
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
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
Demon Theory Days
are still not over. And, don’t mean to fake like it was the first book to pretend to be a novelization of a film (well, trilogy) that never happened—think Lem beat us all to that, somewhat, and I’m halfway remembering Coover having done something in that arena—but, glad to see it’s still going on:
Eight years back
Wending my way through my school’s book-ordering stuff, and I thought, Wait, wonder if I’m in here. Turns out I am. Or, I was, eight years ago. I remember that year, too. I was wondering if I’d ever have another book out. Never really thought I’d have fifteen or sixteen out. Cool. Here’s to eight
Birchbark
Always had the dream of walking through Birchbark Books some fine afternoon. Until then, being there in a book’ll definitely do: What to #read? Who to read? Start here. This is just one section from @birchbarkbooks at #NALS2018 @NALSymposium @SGJ72 @TereseMarieM #LouiseErdrich @heyteebs #LeslieSilko @badndns #louisowens @LeAnneHowe #SusanPower #GordonHenry and more: pic.twitter.com/eNWQ4CB1bh — TVAyyyy (@TVAyyyy)
Devil and the Deep
Ellen Datlow’s new anthology, which I’m fortunate enough to have waded into, way past my depth. Here’s a few of us saying some stuff about it over at Kirkus: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/how-ellen-datlow-and-authors-i-devil-and-deep-blue/