Work of Art, Ep. 2: THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Well, I'm an idiot! I shouldn't make predictions anymore, clearly. But here's one: Michelle will be the bad guy of the season. She's good, she's ambitious, and she's a little shit–literally!Today's...
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My WFC panel
9:00 PM—Thursday (so plenty of time to mess around for the rest of the weekend!)Pacific 1: Out From Under the Bed: Monster as Protagonist Writing from the perhaps less than sympathetic point of view of...
View ArticleFINALLY!
Four years out in California (including the mid-decade year) and I just actually felt an earthquake for once. Big enough that I found myself waiting for the crunch of a car or a horn going off. I...
View ArticleManic Pixie Dream Girl Book Trailer
Depressive Leprechaun Waking World Women, prepare to grumble!BOOK TRAILER from megan boyle on Vimeo.Jeeeeaalous?Yeah, you're jealous.
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#OccupyOakland, a photo essay
I went to the big Occupy Oakland rally and unpermitted march today. It was great, if dehydrating. Good political mix of people. The "Off the pigs!" chant didn't carry the day, unusual for Oakland,...
View ArticleOccupy Oakland busted, blogger knocked down and then gassed
Not wanting to be assaulted anymore, I retreated. I found a commanding officer and told him what had happened. He went to get an officer to help me file a complaint. As I stood there, I noticed all the...
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Speaking of mass destruction...
Those who might hire my occasional critique service, behold!And weep.Remember, when in doubt, cut it out.
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Work of Art, Ep. 3: TITS OR GTFO
This week the challenge was to do with Pop Art! Of course Warhol was the reference point for Mr and Mrs Television land, and Warhol is a fave of people with artistic inclinations who can't do art....
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Work of Art Annex: Lola's Titles So Far
Episode 1: Little pyramids, two frames, one with a little house glued to it.I Wanted to Live in a Mountain, But Then I Realized Mountains Move Too. Episode 2: big pile of shredded paper on the floor,...
View ArticleWorld Fantasy Convention Or, Why I Don't Care About Awards
So I'll be there this afternoon. I have a panel tonight. Sunday is the World Fantasy awards. I am nominated for Haunted Legends along with Ellen Datlow. I mentioned last night to Olivia that I might...
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World Fantasy Convention
It was fun. I actually had very little to do. On Thursday, I was on a panel about the monster as hero, and it went better than I thought it would in that it wasn't an hour of panelists saying, "Well,...
View ArticleNothing's Shocking
The New York Times reports: The event, attended by perhaps a few hundred people over the course of the day, was split into four sessions, with multiple presentations in each, and spread out over the...
View ArticleHalloween skirmish
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the "Hey there, look at this idiot in the newspaper!" section of this journal, check out this lede from the Times review of Zone One.A literary novelist writing a genre novel is...
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This guy
This guylikes to cop feels, do the creep, and try to force smooches from women at conventions. When stymied, he resorts to silly threats of black magic.Now you know.
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Insults Every Man Should Know is out now. So buy it. It's a tiny gift book. Look near the cash register of your local bookstore!My commercial fiction workshop in Berkeley starts again in two weeks. If...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
"For dynamite is both the miner's curse, the outward and audible sign of his enslavement to mineral extraction, and the American working man's equalizer, his agent of deliverance, if he would only dare...
View ArticleTry to look surprised
Just over a year since the last such announcement, the current owners of Realms of Fantasy are announcing the magazine's impending demise.What happened? According to the owners: "When we purchased...
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