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Widget Smidget
Giving away copies of a forthcoming day job book, The Navidad Incident on Goodreads, see? Goodreads Book Giveaway The Navidad Incident by Natsuki Ikezawa Giveaway ends March 23, 2012. See the giveaway...
View ArticlePush the button, Frank
In today's news, Amazon has removed all titles distributed by IPG—a major distributor of books by independent publishers—from their Kindle store.Among the victims of this is my novel Sensation. Luckily...
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Team Rocket presents...
Over at the day job blog, I reveal the table of contents for the forthcoming anthologyThe Future Is JapaneseOh yeah, baby.
View ArticleChronicle
Chronicle is a surprisingly good film, despite a name that may as well be Working Title, a home camera/found footage conceit stretched to the point of ridiculousness, and dialogue by Max "Son of John"...
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Long-lost cousin
I met a long-lost distant cousin today. He's an old man; his great-grandmother was a Mamatas, and his relations are from Ikaria, so our extended families also have a number of surnames—Gemelas,...
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Don't Do This Shit
Behold, the end result of the sort of vote-grubbing in genre literary awards I have grown to despise. In my old age I have also grown kind, and have so cut the name of the HWA member who posted this...
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A True Oscars Story
One of my professors at Stony Brook was Louis Peterson, who taught me that it was okay to hate bad shit. Even the bad shit people insist is good.He was a screenwriter as well as a playwright, and had...
View ArticleFirst BULLETTIME pre-order store
Cemetery Dance moved quickly on something, listing my ChiZine Pub book Bullettime for pre-orders before anyone else did.Also, CD's warehouse isn't a horrifying sweatshop, so the book will smell...
View ArticleDo you teach first-year composition?
If so, you may wish to share this essay with your students as part of a lesson on identifying and classifying logical fallacies and spinning facts.But maybe you won't, because you live in your mother's...
View ArticleOh God, we may be drifting down into the 2%...
With expenses high, bonuses down, and everyone against them, what can people like this do?“I can’t imagine what I’m going to do,” Schiff said. “I’m crammed into 1,200 square feet. I don’t have a...
View ArticleSpeaking of Kurosawa...
Tomorrow, on Turner Classic Movies!The first color film for director Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, 1954), Dodes'Ka Den (1970) is a departure on many levels for the director, who was at a difficult...
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ON THE ROAD movie poster
The poster for the forthcoming On the Road movie has been revealed:And all over the world, people are thinking to themselves, "Were there girls in On the Road? I mean ones with names and stuff...?"
View ArticleTHE BIG CLICK is here
Hey kids, like crime fiction? Like me and Jeremiah Tolbert and my friend Seth Cadin? Please enjoy the first issue of The Big Click.Content will appear over the course of the month online, for free, or...
View ArticleShocking Shocklines Show
Way back in 2002, when I was a young bugaboo, this was big news:CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - DEADLINE: April 1, 2002:SHOCKLINES ANTHOLOGYMatt Schwartz and Richard Chizmar, Editors...Shocklines is a new...
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Little earthquake
That one was a waker-upper.Aaaand here comes the map!Ah, two of 'em! I believe the scientific term is The Malachi Crunch.Update: Nah, looks like it was just one now:Four point ooooooh. (Early numbers...
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Happy birthday to me, belated
Got this in the mail today:Media mail can take a while when the media is heavy, man.
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International Women's Day Quick Links
Happy International Women's Day, everyone.Photo from here.Thanks to Twitter, I suspect people in the US are beginning to hear of this holiday, which of course was initiated in the US.As a...
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