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I am a world-famous fashion icon
I am, really. Like Kate Moss, but dumpy and creepy instead of waiflike and creepy. You know it, baby. And here's more proof: the table of contents for Bloody Fabulous, an anthology of contemporary...
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Six months later, at Occupy Wall Street
Man, undercover cops...Photo by Laurie PennyThey just never know quite how to blend in, do they? Those jackets, Jesus. And one is even wearing a little Green for St. Paddy's Day. It's fun and easy to...
View ArticleSo what?
I've read the Harlan Ellison essay "Xenogensis" and was certainly appalled at many of the demands members of fandom have made on writers, and crimes "fans" have committed against them. Real crimes,...
View ArticleThe Internet sure has changed everything
In Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford they were again greeted with rapture, and at Hartford Dickens again raised the matter of international copyright. The dinner guests said nothing, but the local...
View ArticleICFA
Who is going to ICFA? Is there anything else to do in town other than do the conference and then pick a fight with some teenager, shoot him, and then claim it was self-defense?
View ArticleLong Story About A New Story: "Dead Man In My Bed"
I remember that the first email was back in 2007 as I was in Saratoga Springs, in a hotel room, when I received it. It's the kind of email one gets often when one writes and publishes short stories....
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ICFA highlights
I tweeted some of International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) already, and am quite worn out from getting home, but some highlights:*Met too many people to list, so will just give a...
View ArticleTwo great reviews of SENSATION
Sensation has been out for a while, but is still getting excellent reviews. The latest Interzone features one by Nathaniel Tapley which is nuts in its enthusiasm. It begins:You should read Sensation...
View ArticleThey didn't try to recruit HIM!
Carl Frederick comes in from the cold on the issue of Scientology and the Writers of the Future contest.
View ArticleThe Compleat Big Click
The full first issue of The Big Click is now up on the site. Fiction by Ken Bruen and Anonymous-9, an interview with Joe R. Lansdale, and a column by Tom Piccirilli. All free!Which isn't to say that...
View ArticleDamn you, Facebook
Someone on Facebook just tagged me in a post. The post asked the question, "What are your three favorite books?" The text beneath the subject further elaborated—which three books made you want to...
View ArticleThursday again?
Anyway, I suppose this is the day that we're all supposed to say funny things to express our opinion of Christopher Priest's writing—specifically the funny things Christopher Priest said to express his...
View ArticleFOGcon
Going to FOGcon this afternoon. I'll have copies of Starve Better to sell and some Haikasoru books to give away. I'll be on the "genre balkanization" panel this afternoon and as a Balkan will be sure...
View ArticleWeekend Wrap-Up
I was at FOGcon this weekend. Several of my students from the Writing Salons also came. I'm sad I missed Matt Lavin, but Jose San Mateo has this write-up on his Friday at the con.I was on three panels...
View ArticleToo awesome for Kickstarter
Against my better judgment, I planned to let an editor use my name as part of his plan to Kickstart an anthology for his small (non-genre) press a few months ago. He had a compensation plan, and...
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New story: The Ladder Trick
I'm writing for television! Uh, public television. I mean, Canadian public television. Well, really aboriginal Canadian public television. Indeed, the website for an aboriginal Canadian public...
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