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Werewolves on the beach: definitely; forever; please. No better place to be.
Werewolves out in the World, Part IX
Nine of these already? I think so. I mean, I’m no expert professional seasoned counter or anything, and my roman-numeral-fu maybe isn’t operating at the absolute highest level, but still, here we are, I think. And? Here’s where we’ve been: one werewolf, two werewolves, three werewolves, four. Five werewolves, six werewolves, seven werewolves, and one more. That’s
Werewolves out in the World, Part VIII
For anybody just catching this broadcast on the digital shortwave, here’s installments one, two, three, four, five, six, and lucky number slevin. Also? It kind of makes me sad that I had to actually think to title this one—I mean, think to Roman-numeral it Not that “VIII” is hard, or should be, but, man, when I was in
Werewolves out in the World, Part VII
Part 7 already? I mean, I did the first one of these kind of as a lark. And now I’ve got enough pics and screencaps after this one for an eights installment. Thank you all so much. Verymuch digging seeing Mongrels in ever tab on my browser—and in everybody’s lenses. Means everything. Times two. For
Four Movies
Oh, man, don’t have time really even to mini-review all of these (edit: that’s a lie. I couldn’t help it). But they’re far and away the best stuff I’ve seen lately: This one—wow. Halfway between Tombstone and Unforgiven, and kind of built on the dramatic backbone of Shane. Doc rides again. Unlike most westerns, though,
Writers, Writing (and not)
Makes me half-nervous, making fun, as I know you see your own frailties best in others. But still—well, I don’t like coffee, or beer, or fine dining. But I’m sure I’m a poser in some way all the same: List of Things That Don’t Make You A Writer When I moved to Austin, I was
A Good Week for Novellas
Y’all been hearing the same thing I have? That we’re kind of easing into a novella-friendly space? Like: http://io9.gizmodo.com/tor-com-explains-why-novellas-are-the-future-of-publish-1685440234 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/business/media/james-patterson-has-a-big-plan-for-small-books.html? And more and more, I’m sure. As for what constitutes a novella, a short novel, a novelette, a long story . . . who knows. I mean: editors know. There’s word-count thresholds. Granted, they maybe
Fine Dining
This must by my first post about food, ever. Anyway, was just commenting on a friend’s pic of a some pie on Facebook—can’t link to it, but the Instagram’d version’s here—and realized that the reason I have yet to try keylime pie (that’s what the pie in question was), even though I promised myself to
Lake Access Only
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
Werewolves out in the World, Part VI
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,
Couple Books
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
Werewolves out in the World, part V
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
Mongrels Podcasts So Far
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
Too much coolness in one place
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
Mongrels: the Texas Leg
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
Mongrels #1 in Denver
According to the Wall Street Journal: And here’s the longer list, via the Denver Post:
Werewolves out in the World, part IV
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)
Werewolves & the Dallas Morning News
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
Werewolves out in the World part III
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
Mongrels Q&A
I mean, I figured SOMEONE needed to step up, answers all Mongrels questions. Then I figured, hey, wait: that’s me. So I did:
Werewolves & Me
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
Werewolves out in the World, part II
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
Mongrels Promotional Fallout
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,