Killr Killr . . .
Kickstarter for it goes live soon . . .
Best reads from lately
Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read. Adrian Tchaikovsky, science fiction and fantasy author https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-22nd-scam-reaper https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/americas/worlds-biggest-snake-amazon-intl-scli-scn/index.html https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162008/stunt-double Football Players Put Nuts in Allergic Teammate’s Locker Watch: Man spots wolverine running through field Meet the newest ‘walking’ fish—a bright red creature of the deep Colorado could bring back wolverines
Angel audio, featuring . . .
https://stephenking.com/news/stephen-featured-in-the-angel-of-indian-lake-749.html
Teenage Slasher ARCs!
Or, lately, I hear these types called “AREs,” for, I think, Advance Reader Edition, maybe? But I like “Copy” better. And I like this one A LOT:
Angel audiobk is an Apple Must-Listen
Too cool. Thrilled and honored. And, check the small-print for the dream-cast:
What’s it like, writing a trilogy?
” . . . those being sort of rare in horror.” A question I got recently. My answer: Horror trilogies are kind of a hat trick, aren’t they? Hard to pull off—no, hard to get away with. I mean, in horror, if too many of your characters make it through to the end, then . . .
Site health: much better
Same theme—I need one with A) menus at the top, B) branching submenus, and C) a right panel/column—but everything’s moving much faster now. Upgraded my WordPress hosting stuff, cleaned up a lot of stuff behind the curtains, and . . . I can finally again do galleries, I think. A little test, just using random
First copy of Angel!
Can’t wait for y’all to hold it too. I mean, “read it,” “live it,” “feel it,” definitely. But it’s beautiful just to hold. It’s beautiful just as a textual artifact. Embossed matte cover, with spot-gloss. Such cool interior design—those claws! Couldn’t be more thrilled. On the shelves, or your mailboxes, very-very soon, here . .
Bram Stoker Award Finalist!
Such an honor for Don’t Fear the Reaper to have lucked its way onto this so-packed, amazing ballot. Just to be in the presence of great writers and books is the real win, yes? I’ve read all these, and they should each win:
Best Reads from Lately
(trying to do these more regularly, so they don’t get so loooong) A Brief Visual History of On-Screen Text Messages in Movies and TV https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/mexican-drug-cartel-targets-six-native-american-reservations-in-montana-203999301848 (hard to call this “best,” yeah. but: good to read/know) Report: 84% Of Super Bowl Ads Specifically Intended To Distract From Human Rights Violation https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/world/vittrup-man-bog-body-denmark-scn?cid=ios_app https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/
Chainsaw and Reaper stuff
http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2023/12/audiobook-review-dont-fear-reaper-by.html http://deadm15.blogspot.com/2024/01/review-dont-fear-reaper.html https://es.babelio.com/livres/Jones-Mi-corazon-es-una-motosierra/190054/critiques/252567 In the Nevernever: My heart is a chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones https://www.instagram.com/p/C1vQ_jqrEah/?igsh=eW1xdHhsazN0N3lk
Early Teenage Slasher:
https://www.audible.com/blog/article-most-anticipated-listens-2024 https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-angel-of-indian-lake-1803129 https://www.instagram.com/tonyshorrorcorner/p/C1aXBP_rVgT/ https://katelynwrites.medium.com/book-review-stephen-graham-jones-the-angel-of-indian-lake-6005651837ef http://www.publishersweekly.com/9781668011669 Book reviews: P. Djèlà Clark’s Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ann Leckie, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more
Angel of Indian Lake begins . . .
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/93879-spring-2024-adult-announcements-sf-fantasy-horror.html https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/fiction/the-most-anticipated-horror-books-of-2024 https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Horror-Prepub-Alert-July-2024-Titles Let Us Feast: 10 Horror Books to Crave in Early 2024 | Book Riot https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/our-most-anticipated-books-march-2024/