Coolest Bookmark Ever?
Yep:
Best Reads from Lately
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway: “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“ “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“ “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“ “Why narrating an audiobook is a
Clarion 2019 & Seattle (also 2019)
Always great, being in Seattle, wearing a Batman shirt, being at the University Bookstore, having fun at the mic with seventy or eighty readers and writers. Thanks to all these cool folk for snapping pics, posting them up: pics by @AndreaLRogers, crowdsourced reading glasses, Neile Graham
The Shortlist
Honored to have “Raphael,” my first published horror story, included in Paul Tremblay’s list of five horror stories: And, if you maybe like his selections, then you might just also like his collection Growing Things, out tomorrow / July 2nd:
Last Final Girling it up, Pt 2
Originally? “Part II” was the title I fought and fought for on this book. Glad I lost that.
Camp Wedding
Okay, probably not a slasher, but it’s a summer camp, there’s lots OF slashing going on. I’m there:
Ladies of the Fright panel / podcast
Is now available to Patreoners. And I’d guess it’ll roll even more available after a while. It’s a recording of this panel, from StokerCon 2019: Podcast’s here: Oh, wait, it’s HERE, now: https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/podcast/2019/6/28/lotf-38-why-does-horror-matter-stoker-con-2019-panel
Fangoria!
Never thought I’d have the chance to slip into these pages with some fiction, since Fango was dead. But then it came back. And now it’s having it’s 40th Anniversary. And I’ve got a story, “Night Tag,” in THAT issue, out as of . . . either now, or July 1st. Either way, they’re already
Child’s Play 2019
Man, seems I was just talking about the Halloween sequel we never thought we’d get, and now I’m here after seeing the Child’s Play remake nobody expected. In short: it’s really good, all kinds of fun. Most interested in how they updated it from 1988. Back then, the cautionary tale—or, what opens the cycle of
Who Knew
Scooting through eBay the other day, looking for a good cloth version of Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead—a novel I’ll never not be in love with (though my favorite film adaptation of Beowulf is Outlander, of course)—I remembered that I’ve had a few people in my inbox and around lately asking did I have any
Twitter Comic
A comic strip/book thread. Pretty cool. Haven’t seen it presented this way before. And: it’s a cool story. 🦷🦷🦷 Dental Plan by joy san – A comic thread 1 of 8 🦷🦷🦷 pic.twitter.com/RYhEBNP4dZ — JOY SAN (@sexytuna) June 7, 2019
ReaderCon
My events, which also includes hosting the Shirley Jacksons on Sunday. Either at 11am or noon, it seems.
Captain, My Captain
I’ve always been torn about who my favorite Star Trek captain might be—like Weird Al says, it’s a hard decision: But now, with this, I don’t know, there’s another contender: As you can tell from my recent swing through Texas, ketchup only is the way to go (didn’t really want the cheese, but he kept
Fleur Fine Books in August
I’m there. I can’t see the event-thing on Facebook, since I’m, you know, not on Facebook, but I’m guessing the link works: Save the date. @SGJ72 at @FleurFineBooks. August 24th. Be there. https://t.co/O5dHmRra9u — Bob Pastorella (@BobPastorella) June 3, 2019
Horror Aficionados … Unite!
Our second group read for June's werewolf theme is MONGRELS by @SGJ72 which is a unique take on lycanthropes! I hope you can join us as we read and discuss the book. Be there or be square! https://t.co/aQDpgPsCdB pic.twitter.com/HtSKmmvLG1 — Horror Aficionados (@HA_Goodreads) May 28, 2019
Brightburn
I’d been seeing the trailers for Brightburn around, and figured I’d just . . . wait for Redbox, maybe. I mean, Supes getting weaponized by Lex Luthor was pretty much ever other issue for a while, and Justice Leagure Dark had already shown me what all there heroes being unheroic was like. But then I