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Shocklines Thread of the Week...or so
I barely ever look at Shocklines anymore, but did today, and clicked on a thread made by D. F. Lewis, in which he writes, obliquely (this is D. F. Lewis we're talking about):I sense an enormous...
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Dead Ray Bounce
I'm surprised that Ray Bradbury's death didn't lead to a crazy explosion of sales for his books on Bookscan. Last week's top sellers, prior to his death:And now, for the week ending 6/10 (Bradbury died...
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Good News and Bad News
Some good new, a class-action suit has been filed against the notorious vanity publisher Publish America. In addition to misleading thousands of authors about their own business model, PA is indirectly...
View ArticleTuesday Book Notes
Cemetery Dance is having a sale for Independence Day, uh, I mean Colonial Traitor Day. (My in-laws were just visiting!) That means if you order the signed/limited hardcover of Bullettime from CD (it's...
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Hot Sweaty Summer Noir
The July-August issue of The Big Click is now live. We have fiction by Jim Nisbet and Wayne Allen Sallee, and Tom Piccirilli's (that's two c's, one r) usual column and you can buy it for your Kindle or...
View ArticleThursday spam
The Summer 2012 issue of Fine Books and Collections is out now; it includes my article on Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive and his attempt to create a physical "seed vault" of the world's books...
View ArticleI'm looking forward to Beast Crawl
Beast Crawl is a new East Bay literary pub crawl. The selection of both venues and performers is is super-interesting (Giant Burger? Really!), but here are my picks:Leg 1: Lip Service West, at The...
View ArticleSecond Verse, Same As The First
From—where else?—the comments section of a post on a skiffy blog (tor.com in this case, but anywhere would do):My sister and her husband tend toward the notion that I need to be working in some mundane...
View ArticleMonday stuff
Last week, PW gave The Future is Japanese a starred review. This week, with Bullettime, it's more of an odd, somewhat encouraging shrug:Mamatas (Sensation) explores roads not taken in this complex,...
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THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE NEST OF SPIDERS Or, What The Hell Did I just Read?
Well, it took some time—and interruptions of half a dozen other novels, partially because I needed breaks, and partially because 800 pages of racial slurs and shit-eating isn't amenable to air travel...
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, An Open Letter
A blogger who goes by the name of Patrick Power has discovered the existence of The Damned Highway (which is 40 percent off at that link, by the way) and writes:I can only guess the writers Brian Keene...
View ArticleReadercon
I went to Readercon for the first time in four years and liked it. I didn't realize how much I missed the Boston area until I arrived, though Burlington's Marriott is nigh inescapable. I missed...
View ArticleReadercon update
Here is a post from the person who was harassed at Readercon. I appear in it as the friend who stepped in to sit at the Clarkesworld table while she went elsewhere.Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
View ArticleTuesday quick notes
Here's something that's never okay: "May I have your permission to use your space to link to my Kindle book? Here's the link." Speaking of, amazon.com seems to have eliminated its sales rankings. I...
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Why I Read THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE NEST OF SPIDERS Or, A Pretentious...
1. First things first: Over at The Big Click, do check out In The Shank of the Night by horror legend Wayne Allen Sallee. If you like what we're doing, buy an ebook to keep us going.2. At Readercon,...
View ArticleDon't Spend It All In One Place
The results below aren't necessarily typical, but the more bureaucratic a venue, the less room for negotiation there is. Sometime publishers rather than agents do rights negotiations. They do this for...
View ArticleIt's Not Even Labor Day
...and I saw my first "Vote for Obama or you want people to die" post on my friendslist!
View ArticleQuote of the Day
So this is how it ends, you think like a Jay McInerney character. Do you really want to give a single thought, at the beginning of the end of your life, to Jay McInerney?—from Old and Cold by Jim Nibest
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Try the Veal
I don't attend NECon, but I did write a joke for nick_kaufmann for the roast of Darrell Schweitzer.Darrell's books are clearly very important to him. Though we all remember that dark and tragic day...
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