Which is a slasher I wrote  . . . two years ago? I’d just reread The Virgin Suicides, and thought, Man, that was cool, sure—along with American Psycho, maybe the book of the nineties—but, wouldn’t it be cooler if that royal first-person delivery could be used to deliver something with a lot of people dying […]
This is Part VI of these. The other parts are here: one, two, three, four, and five. I should call them the Yellow Dog Chronicles, maybe. The Werewolf Digest. Either way, it’s cool to be on tables like this: And, yes, the kids do need to get Mongrelized: Always proud to be in a proper dogpile: And,
Read two this week, each so, so excellent. Got like fourteen seconds here to say something about them, but I’ll try to steal fourteen more, too, as I can’t not say something about them: Horrorstor was fun, definitely, but, gotta say: I keyed on the horror stuff, but the IKEA stuff, it went right past
This is Part V in this series, this digest, this stack of screencaps. The first four parts are here: one, two, three, and four. Let’s hit it: Is the truck longer in the audio? David James Keaton was saying so. Could be. Always great to be in Rebecca’s classroom—thank you: Via Theo, who’s maybe in a
Figured I’d archive the posters/banners each place makes, and slip the link in so’s they don’t get just completely lost. Will embed when embedding’s a thing, too: TIH 092: Stephen Graham Jones on Werewolves, Mongrels and Common Writing Mistakes Check out the “Show Notes” on that click, too. Most places? They don’t give you a
Which is to say: Bob Seger singing a Waylon Jennings song written by Steve Earle. Maybe the most golden pedigree I can dream of. I mean, okay: if this was somehow all happening in the passenger seat not just of a 77 Trans-Am, but if all three of these music makers were in the actual car
This is from Murder by the Book—which shuttered up as soon as I was done, as the rain was coming down, and Houston’s understandably pretty water-shy this summer, and where we were was evidently a place that goes lake just when the humidity gets high enough. That’s the with-specs shot. Here’s the without,where I suspect
According to the Wall Street Journal: And here’s the longer list, via the Denver Post:
The first three parts of this are here: one, two, three. And this part? Starts with “Rainy Day Book Porn,” of course: Which—those are some books Mongrels hasn’t shown up by yet. Cool. And, lest we forget the audio version: And, what’s weird, and maybe even unnecessary? To screen cap your (my)
Remember that amazing-cool review of Growing Up Dead in Texas the Dallas Morning News did four years ago? I do. Welp, just pulled into Dallas, picked up a Sunday paper down at the hotel’s coffee shop, and: Extended (and complete) interview here:Â http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/books/20160520-from-west-texas-to-adolescent-werewolves-stephen-graham-jones-wild-ride-to-book-success.ece And here’s what you get on that 4E: Would have taken a picture
If you want to peel back the days: Part 1 of this Part the second And, would wait to post this until Monday or Tuesday, but the cool pics keep stacking up. If I wait any longer, this post won’t load. So, without me making this post any longer with boring words, let’s get to
I mean, I figured SOMEONE needed to step up, answers all Mongrels questions. Then I figured, hey, wait: that’s me. So I did:
Me in my office, playing with all things werewolf related. At least those I could reach without getting out of the camera’s eye. Also some talking, some reading, some injudicious swaying from side to side, like I just spilled koolaid on the couch but nobody knows about it, and I really-really need to get outside, like
This is the second batch of these. First’s here. So let’s start with: Thanks to Lesa Pascavis Smith on facebook for that. I dig how nervous the werewolf is—how not to be, right? Little Shop of Stories stands Mongrels up on the table, even: How Mongrels looks with cool boots: How it looks while being
Was supposed to be just, you know, fun. But then the news services got hold of it: from : http://www.opengravesopenminds.com/books-and-articles/ancient-werewolf-known-as-old-stinker-sparks-folk-panic-in-uk/ I don’t even know if it finally sold any Mongrels, really. And here’s a grab from the Daily Mail—much the same, just, without the Newcastle Beerwolf: from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3591219/Hull-residents-spot-fanged-beast-human-like-features-nicknamed-Old-Stinker.html I mean, if you can’t trust the Daily Mail,
And all the English-speaking places over there—Aus, NZ, wherever. Turkey too, soon, but I haven’t seen that one yet. Anyway, to proper-launch Mongrels over there, SciFiNow talked about Mongrels—so cool: Click here to go to the there (here to buy it over there). And, talking this UK Mongrels, like, the artifactness of it, there’s .
Always fun, talking to smart people on the television: The click to go to the place:Â http://reportfromsantafe.com/episodes/view/366/stephen-graham-jones-author-mongrels-demon-theory/
Not what I listened to while Mongrels-writing, but some songs that synch up well with Mongrels, I think. Which you can cue up just on Spotify, here*. Also, before I get to annotating and embedding and pulling my hair about because the versions I want aren’t available, etc, I also put together a Youtube playlist—different
There came a point in writing Mongrels where I realized, DUDE: you can’t have them driving a Buick in two chapters in a row! Werewolves don’t have brand loyalty, they drive whatever’s at hand. So began what I call the travails: google-image searching for like two bleary-eyed, numb-fingered days, until I’d not only put all
Didn’t think to start nabbing these pics until a day or two ago, so I’m sure there’s a lot of great and perfect ones out there. And, hope I’m not stepping on any toes, reposting them. If so, let me know? I’ll delete, or crop your name out (or mine?). Just snagged them off social
Wordplay aside, this looks to be pretty fun. So it only has one review? It’s a pretty good one, anyway. And I dig the setup: Coming across as a sort of Blair Witch Project version of hunting The Wolfman This is one I’m going to try hunt down myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37BpGGZWxA8
Southern Gods A lot of novels out there, they play with the tentacley, the eldritch, the elder, but this one . . . I don’t know. It kind of does it, first, in a way that doesn’t seem like ‘play’ at all, but more important, it does it in a way that kind of
Always dig being there. I mean, I know so many people there, it’s a lot like coming home. And—should have taken a picture—always cool to see my older books faced-out on the shelves, of course: [here] Anyway—remember how, in DC, I had the kind of maximum amount of knife-drama, getting into the building? For this
Remember how in Mötley Crüe’s “Home Sweet Home” video, there’s all these slow-motion, black and white scenes from before and after and during the concert, the tour, this life on the road? That’s what Billy Stratton’s snapshot of Richard and Kadrey last night at Tattered Cover reminds me of: What’s especially cool about that? For once
Who’d have ever though a farmboy Indian from West Texas would get to launch a werewolf novel at the Library of Congress? [most of these pics are courtesy Deborah Miranda] I know I can smile better than that, too. But what you gonna do. Anyway, don’t let me fool you into thinking it was only me:
