Best of the Year so far: the February Post
Getting to a few of these kind of the year-after. But, man, they’re no less excellent for it: Â
Landis, Cronenberg, Carpenter, and Garris
This may turn out to be the absolute coolest thing I see all year. Not just these four in a single conversation, these four all talking WHEN they’re talking.
The Horror (office)
panoramic shots of what was once my office on campus at CU Boulder (before the remodel of the building)
The Trump Way
Just stashing these here so I can remember them: [ other Trump-stuff on site, here: “The Day before the Earth Stood Still“, “Trump” ]
The Day Before the Earth Stood Still
We’re all holding our breath. For four years. But we’ll lose it a few times, I know, from shouting. We’re going to need a lot of shouting, and a lot of watching. Anyway, there’s hope, too. This is last night: However, we can’t forget that this kind of thing is now happening as well: In
The Horror (Study)
Which is to say: where I write. Well, where I write when I’m writing in my study. Where I write when I’m writing in my office (on campus) is here. But, this is home. The door of it, anyway: And this is me standing in the middle of it all, trying to go as fast/slow
Mongrels tpb
Got me an early copy. Same bat-cover, same bat-words—but more of them: an essay-thing at the end, and a reader’s guide as well. And, I don’t have a scale this fine, but this book is light, man. Don’t tie your balloon to it and set on the bench beside you at the park, because the
Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXIII
To be filed under Things That Floor Me: that I’m still doing this, seven months later. I mean, that Mongrels is still getting passed around online like this. And? The trade’s out in . . . seventeen days now, I guess. With some cool post-scripty stuff at the end: essay/note _ reading guide fun. Anyway,
This is Horror Awards for 2016: Open
And ready for anybody’s votes. Maybe the strongest line-up of finalists I’ve yet seen. Honored for Mongrels to be included. Click here to go there, and vote with your many-many email aliases.
This is Why I’ve Spent So Much of My Life Looking in Basements
Just unutterably cool, this. I’m not even sure I have all the words. Here’s one pic: Here‘s the whole page. I think I might be this Thomas Merrilyn, slightly reincarnated.
One Last Mongrels Write-Up
That I’d have missed without being passed the link on Twitter—thanks. This one’s over on Amazon UK, and . . . so cool, right up there with that Will Byrnes write-up on Goodreads. I’ll link it then screencap it in as well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R30YK8VQ8QAAMD/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0008182426&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=266239&store=books Also: so much thank you to everyone who thought to say something
Mongrels trade (UK)
Hey, look what’s sneaking onto the book tables in Australia here at the end of 2016: [ thanks to Emma Osborne for the snap ]
Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXIII
I know, I know: been a while since one of these, yes? Thus this one being a long scroll. But, I mean, I’ve been writing a novel, and being in California for ten days, and being some other places too. I seem to vaguely recall an injury as well. Anyway, none of that matters, because
Mongrels Best of the Year Listings
The yellow book’s padded onto a few cool year-end lists, looks like. I’ll update this, should any more turn up. And, thank you thank you to everyone, for believing in werewolves. Me too. Tor’s 16 Best Books of 2016 (so far)  |  BookRiot’s 100 Monster Books |  25 Summer Books  |  Bustle’s 12 Summer Reads  |   Shotgun Logic Top 5 (so
Best of 2016
Best movie’s a hard call, especially as I’ve yet to see The Eyes of My Mother or Nocturnal Animals or Moana or Kubo and the Two Strings. Also? I doubt I’ve seen just all that many of the award-contenders either. But I did luck into a few good theaters/iTunes rentals/Netflixes: Television of course is the
Sometimes a Cool Thing Happens
and it’s shaped like a book, one I’d never have guessed could be real. Thanks so much to Billy J. Stratton and all the contributors. Honored. Amazing. So cool. Clickable here. And here it is in BookWorks, down in Albuquerque (thanks to Amanda Sutton for the snap): And — it’s like a gnome, photobombing, yes? —
Happiness is :
Over the many years since I got online, these are the six absolute best things I’ve found. When I need to be happy and don’t have a slurpee, I just click here, and all’s well:
So, I’m Kind of Still and Always Head Over Heels for Scream
http://www.blumhouse.com/2016/11/22/a-letter-from-screams-maureen-prescott-to-her-daughter-sidney/
Indigenous Comic Con #1!
With no variant covers! What you saw was what you got: [ wish I knew who drew this like it was nothing, when, actually, it’s everything ] You know George RR Martin tells that story of having the first ticket to the first comic con? That’s how getting to be a guest here feels to me: like
James Welch
is still James Welch, but now he’s also a Google Doodle. So, so cool, the whole searching world seeing a Blackfeet face when a new tab opens. I vote we keep this one for a while:
Trump
I’m going to start this out in a way I’ve never felt I had to start anything out online: this is just me, talking. Not for any of the schools I teach at, any organizations I’m in. Just me, on my personal site. Check the URL up there: it’s my name, one of my book
Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXII
Just wrapped the extras and okayed the cover and all the rest for the trade paperback of Mongrels, in January. So, seems a good time to stack all these in one place—way too tall a stack, I know. But it’s been a busy last few weeks, so I’ve just been letting them build and build.