Remember when Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died, and, the picture on his site was just that birdcage he’d doodled, open and empty? Broke my heart and fixed it with a single image. Same here: I just wrote a haunted house novel that used a SpongeBob episode kind of as touchstone. SpongeBob, man, he’s deep in my
Nice Mapping the Interior write-up: https://thegrimdragon.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/mapping-the-interior-stephen-graham-jones/
New story up over at Lightspeed. Flash fiction, with Stefan Rudnicki on the audio. And, pretty cool: the Author Spotlight interview is, I’m pretty sure, longer than the story itself. First time that’s happened, I think. So, strap in. Next destination: the moon.
It’s a better title than Agatha Christie foisted on us, yes? (which—I do love that novel. without it, do we even have the slasher?) https://www.bookish.com/articles/native-american-heritage-month-books/
Gabino Iglesias, slipping a werewolf in mongst the gunfire and car chases: https://crimereads.com/the-10-weirdest-crime-novels-you-probably-havent-read/
Proud honored thrilled to be special guesting it then and there: https://www.wfc2020.org/guests
Did this from a hotel room in Alabama. Good discussion: https://600kcol.iheart.com/featured/kcol-morning-s-with-jimmy-lakey/content/2018-11-01-stephen-graham-jones-talks-to-jimmy-10-30-2018/
Got a new story in the new Lightspeed. It’s about the coolest mag going. Proud to be included: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/nov-2018-issue-102/
Excellent graphic for this one: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/brains-rotting-flesh-and-infection-zombie-101-with-an-expert-cu-professor
These are a few of the things I really love: https://dgomag.com/contents/tips-on-how-to-survive-creepy-killers-from-horror-and-crime-author-stephen-graham-jones-3453
but the app window for my horror workshop at the Stanley closes on Halloween. Click here to go there.
Pretty cool B&N Halloweenie list: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-new-horror-books-for-dark-october-nights/
It’s out in the world now. Mine’s in transit, but I trust it’ll look just a whole lot like this:
Think I’m in three of these anthologies over at LitReactor: https://litreactor.com/columns/13-halloween-themed-anthologies-to-fill-your-season-with-fright#comments
https://oldfirehousebooksblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/review-mapping-the-interior/
Honored for Mapping to have made this list: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/13-essential-ownvoices-science-fiction-fantasy-novels/
Man, was at the gym long about 11:15 yesterday, just having a good time reading a JS Breukelaar collection and sweating on various torture devices, when I got a call that maybe I could clean up and drive into my office on campus (like, MILES away) by noon, to talk to the newspeople for a
Got two radio interviews next week, had either one or two this week. Here’s one that got archived. Just three minutes or so. KOA on the AM, Colorado: https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#/clip/public/d2716ff1-0092-4ea2-b2e7-31777570737a
Right at the end of this. I always see people with lines from novels or poems or songs or whatever tattoo’d on them, and I think, man, that’s forever, you might only like that passage this year. But this, from Leonard Cohen, I don’t see myself ever falling out of love with it:
The Boulder Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_32198605/cu-prof-zero-zombie-love
I’m still working on my October TBR, and I’m finally reading this collection. 😍 I actually have a few short story collections lined up for October. I love them. I’ve been wanting to read this one for a long time. 🎃 @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/aLVrTX9pn8 — Mindi Snyder (@gowsy33) September 23, 2018
Of all the stories I’ve done, this is the one that still gets to me on the trail. Really? Other day I’m riding this corridor in Boulder with a tall fence on one side, a concrete wall on the other, so: no exits. It goes about . . . three quarters of a mile. I’m
Sounds like a boxing movie. Anyway, cool starred Publisher’s Weekly review—nice words for “Chapter Six.” Click there, or, I mean, it’s so short, here:
Well, my story from Gamut, “The God of Low Things,” reprinted in this month’s The Dark. August 2018
