LA Times Book Award Finalist!
So cool. So honored. So lucky: Late add, here:
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Mongrels Special Edition
And, a discount code, if there’s any left: And here’s the cover (the wraparound’s already the header image at the top of this post):
Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot!
SUCH an honor to have TWO works on this. Just to be alongside so many excellent writers, so many good stories. Luck to all.
Chainsaw in snow, Elk in the store?
Something’s backwards here, yes? But everything’s good here, of course:
Recent events, interviews
(this Ubik discussion should be on YouTube before too long, as well) powered by Crowdcast link for that/above is: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stephen-graham-jones
NYT Best-Seller!
Who’d have thought an elk book, a horror novel, a story set on the Blackfeet Rez, a revenge tale out of Montana could, after six months, make it to #12 on the NYT best-seller list? So amazing. Or, really, who’d have thought a kid who grew up out in the pastures of West Texas would