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MAPPING THE INTERIOR by @SGJ72, AGENTS OF DREAMLAND by @auntbeast, and DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by @seananmcguire all made the 2017 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot!!https://t.co/UeywpiZE52 pic.twitter.com/M3bmUVCdAv — Tor·com Publishing (@TorDotComPub) January 19, 2018

Honored to be in this category with these good writers. Also? Three Tor.coms: Congrats to all the writers in all the categories.

Okay, friend of mine, Emily Rapp, actually has a book called that, so I can’t be the real posterchild, but I can be one of the sliding images on the StokerCon 2018 site, anyway, which is pretty cool—and a surprise: just went there to check dates, see if I could make it, and there I

Hey, cool for Mongrels to still be making lists a year+ after: https://www.horrortalk.com/features/8094-steves-horror-favorites-of-2017.html?

We don’t need to look for aliens. They’re here already. And they’re more amazing than we ever guessed. Mind-Blowing Octopus color change 🐙 by IG@rubergnick pic.twitter.com/a5vVSMlBn2 — Nature is Amazing 🌿 (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 14, 2018

also shoutout to @SGJ72 for writing the best book ive read all year, really since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows back in 2007 pic.twitter.com/LmKZ2nrZuR — Nick Cricket (@PeckTheEagles) December 31, 2017

That Racconti edizioni got together in anticipation of . . .  something else about to happen in Italy:

Available now, here:

( the names here are ABOVE the answers ) A Q&A about inspirations for Mad Hatters and March Hares

First story of the year on the first new day of the year. Maybe someday I’ll have a story every DAY of the year. Well, cumulative anyway. Think I’m pushing three hundred published so far. Now plus one more: http://gamut.online/node/345

Hey, the audiobook of Mongrels is in Audible’s 2-for-1 sale for the next few days, looks like: Click here for it

Stephen Graham Jones: The Animal Just Under The Skin  

Story called “Alis” in the obvious one, and a story about this demon Asmodeus in the other: And, a certain homo naledi story off mine lucked into this: https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/webs-best-science-fiction-1-2017-stories/ And, here’s a cool write-up of “Universal Horror”: https://nicklasalla.blogspot.com/2017/12/its-at-the-front-door-review-of-universal-horror-stephen-graham-jones.html  

You can maybe tell which book this one’s on, over at Unnerving: http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/single-post/2017/12/06/Review-of-Last-Final-Girl-by-Stephen-Graham-Jones   And then here’s a twofer over at Transmotion, for which Theo Van Alst and Billy J. Stratton actually deserve the credit:   https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/434/1144 Speaking of them/Transmotion, this is in that same issue: “Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart

New interview up: https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue20/interviews/stephenjones

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One of the cooler and most well-run cons I’ve guested at. And such an excellent keeper of a con-book: When the longer version of that interview goes live, I’ll link it here. Anyway, Thursday before things really got going, Paul Tremblay and me found a certain door open—Big Nazo’s—and asked could we come in, try