Live Times Two
: “Seven Things I’ve Learned So Far” Predicate
The Ones That Got Away
from the back of the book : These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy’s summer romance doesn’t end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who’s exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back
Vince Liaguno review
of ONES THAT GOT AWAY, here. couldn’t be cooler. also, the cover for BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR’s up, here. and, the cover for the installment of PREDICATE I’m in — available on the thirty-first from Brown Paper Publishing:
Seven Things I’ve Learned So Far
1) Characters are most interesting when they lie. It’s when they’re the most naked, the most vulnerable, the most perplexing — the most like us. Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn’t thrown out of balance, and so there’s no need for a
Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch has problems, yes. Usually, though, you can squint just right, only watch the parts of the movie that the trailer sold you on, and you’re good. Not this time. Which, this is a hyperkinetic, Scott Pilgrim-kind of fantasy fight movie involving steam-powered zombies, with some pretty cool updates of standard songs going on
The Real Dogs
So one time I’m on the phone with the bank, talking to a robot about money, when I hit the wrong key, somehow ended up with Laird Barron on the other end, and I could tell from the way he was talking that his mouth was just real close to the phone, close enough I
Another table of contents
that I’m proud and lucky and honored to be in: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, ed. Paula Guran.
Timber . . .
Couple new stories up in the debut of Timber, “The Bridge” and “The Wisdom of Solomon.” Also, Juked‘s put “Snow Monsters” up in the 2011 Million Writers Award.
Anthologies
Couple of TOCs I’m lucky enough to be in posted today, Creatures, edited by Paul Tremblay and John Langan, and Bestiary, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.
First Stop Fiction
a very cool place. I like the idea, too, of stopping at the first, you know, ‘stop.’ think it’s what I always do. and, got a story up there, “Seafood.”
Publisher’s Weekly
from Publisher’s Weekly: The Ones That Got Away Stephen Graham Jones, Prime (www.prime-books.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60701-235-1 Thirteen horror stories, most originally published between 2005 and 2010, make up Native American writer Jones’s second collection (after 2005’s Bleed into Me). Several stories feature children coming of age: in “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” a father and
Cinemuck
These are, I don’t know, between fifty and ninety movie-type reviews I wrote back in 1999 or so. Pretty much the exact same few months I was first writing DEMON THEORY, yeah. Anyway, I only messed up on a couple. Stigmata‘s one of them, I think. But I got a couple right as well, maybe:
Platte Valley Review
couple new stories up at/with Platte Valley Review. “Girls” and “Bulletproof.” they’re in great company, too.
Second Cult Interview
Because it’s been three years, right? The last one was IM, I think. This one’s phone. And, many thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for, on the transcribe, pulling out all my “ums” and “errs” and “[unintelligible]s,” of which there had to be legion. He even made me sound like a person who occasionally remembers he’s in
Old Depraved Press Interview
this originally posted over at the now-dead Depraved Press back in February 2008. Had completely forgotten about it, but Jesse Lawrence, the “JL” here — you’ll also find him in various acknowledgements and thanks in my books — hadn’t forgot, still had it saved in email. However, all the formatting’s gone, with this paste-across, so,
LPTape 1
Editor’s note: The following tape is one of many confiscated from the locker of LP Deal in the back of the Fool’s Hip Bowling Alley in the Dakota Territories by Federal Agents during their investigation into the murder of tourists in the region. The publisher acquired the tapes through legal means and now has made
Dancing with Myself
My third-ever self-interview, up now at Sea Minor. First-ever self-interview? Above, under “FAQ.” Second: in IRON HORSE LITERARY REVIEW a few issues ago. Next: daily. Every time I find myself in “As seen on TV”-aisle of Walgreens, after which I’ll be asking myself “Did you REALLY think that was going to work like it did
Dodd Lives . . .
and not just because of the radiation, but because people keep talking about him, like here. Thanks to Mike Hance for the headsup.
10 from 2010
Couple (of my) lists, one at Dzanc, one at the San Antonio Current. And, yeah, for each, I had to check, make sure Sorority Row hadn’t come out in 2010. Not that it for-sure could have edged close to Machete. But definitely maybe.
Piranha 3D
Of course it’s way after the fact for me to be writing about Piranha 3D, but if I do it later then it’ll even be more after the fact, so . . . Remember when Lou Diamond Phillips was in Bats, way back in 99 or so? An interview he did around then, he kind
Ones That Got Away is Live
[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.