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[click for readability] and, first review was two-plus months ago, at OWC. buy it in time for Christmas from Prime, Powell’s, Amazon, B&N, or wherever.

up now at 3AM Magazine. Review by Gregory Frye, interview soon to be up as well. click here.

“pitch-perfect noir tale of love and revenge” and more, more, more. too cool.

Richard Thomas does a close read / excellent write up of It Came from Del Rio, over at The Nervous Breakdown.

supersweet. held this first and onliest copy in my hands today. soon there will be more. click the images for full-sized.  

man, I’ve had people do illustrations for my stuff before, and had people send me CDs of music they’ve made based on my stuff (which rocked), but never audio, like, augmentation like this. also, win a DEMON THEORY.

Full jacket here tomorrow, hopefully. And, yes, in case you’re wondering, this may, in the complete and total history of book covers, be the coolest. just saying. [ click it for the full size ]

over at OWC, by the inexhaustible Jesse Lawrence.

For The Ones That Got Away. [ click it to see the full-size ]

Every once in a while, something especially cool happens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flushboy (2013) and Not for Nothing (2014). Which, a quick sort-of breakdown: –Flushboy‘s what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love stories. It’s this kid, pretty much indentured into working the drive-through window at

New/excellent/killer/wonderful cover and isbn for the story collection, now called The Ones That Got Away. Was lucky enough to be in the fifty stories Brian Evenson selected for Wigleaf. Clutch of new stories over at Shadowbox, here. New story “Sunsets Unlimited” at Hobart. Review of Splice at the San Antonio Current. I think I’ve got

Looks like that “The Ones Who Away” story of mine’s going in Paula Guran’s soon-here THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR. Too, I think the version going in that’s the one I re-rigged for THE ONES THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY, my October/Prime collection.

So, these judges, they were all huddled together over pizza and beer, and they got to daring each other this and that (I hear there’s pics), and it finally came down to seeing if they could slip a clown into the novelette category, strictly for fun, because who could win again Stephen King and Laird

Should you need to run me down: ( http://starland.com/ ) 8:00pm Friday night, that triple feature. The poster’s down below here, or bigger in my “etc” photo album. I’m introducing, in this order, DEAD AND BURIED, THE KEEP, and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (also: lots of cool trailers). am more than likely going to get

In case anybody needs me next/AWP week, these are the places I definitely plan on being, though of course I’ll be trolling the bookfair for swag as well, and haunting lobbies, and skulking around busstops, and generally making a nuisance of myself in various restaurants. And, no, I don’t know where any of these places

Anybody catch that “Little Lambs” story of mine IRON HORSE ran a few months ago? One of my favorites ever. Looks like it’s coming out again in November, in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s THE WEIRD:A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK FICTIONS. Couldn’t be happier about that.

Which, isn’t that an old TC Boyle story? It always stuck with me, anyway. But, only mentioning it because it means ‘snow,’ and snow’s in this story of mine up at Juked, “Snow Monsters.” My snow story’s not nearly so long as “Termination Dust,” though. And, also, there’s “Monsters” in the titlte, which never hurts.

New story up over there, here. My claim is that it’s all made-up. Except for the animal parts.

New story up over at Zack Wentz’s excellent New Dead Families.

setting: Austin, Texas characters: – a father – his daughter – various chupacabras – various border patrol agents – some people to kill righteously publisher: Trapdoor Book2. synopsis: the story of the reconciliation between a daughter and her long-gone father, as complicated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zombie place in The Bunnyhead Chronicles:

Very proud to be part of Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthology this year. Proud to be under a cover this cool, too: