Broken Piano for President Update
Last week we looked at the Bookscan numbers for Broken Piano for President, a micropress book that got a ton of free publicity after booze company Jack Daniels sent the author the nicest cease and...
View ArticleLiterary Fiction beats Science Fiction Again
Oh yes, the Readercon Creeper may have made Jezebel (and I got a flurry of excited emails from casual acquaintances who love Jezebel and were thrilled to see my name on it), but fine literature has...
View ArticleWhat Is Cool Now?
This poor guy over at Bookslut stopped reading science fiction as a teen in order to be cool. He writes, in part, "I left it behind, for fucking John Updike and Alice Munro. What a fool I was. Updike...
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Is This What We Call An Object Lesson?
I started another round of classes this weekend. As part of my first lecture, I described many problems I've seen with stories in the slush, and beyond. For example, the "child molester"* story I used...
View ArticleNo Business Like...BULLETTIME
It's Bullettime's official release day, so that means that Powell's is taking orders and shipping, as are the various stores, both online and brick and mortar, associated with IndieBound.To celebrate,...
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Every Day Sanitation
No Business Like, the story linked to previously is getting some negative comments, which the publisher is removing. I prefer a world where people can stay all sorts of stupid shit on the Internet. So...
View ArticleThe most ticklist subject in SF
Over at SF Signal, I was part of another Mind Meld, this one asking Q: What are, in your opinion, the themes and subjects which science fiction never have delved into properly but should have? (sex,...
View ArticleWednesday Quick Notes
The various ebook versions of Bullettime: Kindle, NOOK, Kobo (Hey, it's Canadian!) Apple, etc. are all live and "shipping." Shipping electrons!Incidentally, you'll see that the seller is listed as...
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Friday quick notes
Hey hey, have liberal Democrats entered the domestic terrorism biz? Floyd Lee Corkins allegedly tried to shoot up the Family Research Council. In his bag, court documents say, police found 50 rounds of...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Turpin was well aware that all sorts of strange organisms lurk in the guts of the Fine Arts. The edges of the two Underworlds overlap. The fringes of art tangle with the fringes of crime. Artists ratés...
View ArticleHappy birthday H. P. Lovecraft!
Hey hey, today is H. P. Lovecraft's birthday, and you can celebrate by sending me two dollars picking up a copy of the Kindle edition of my Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground (only $2.99,...
View ArticleTuesday links and more
Project Itoh's novel Genocidal Organ is out today. One of my favorite dayjob books. I hope you check it out. As the title implies, the bodycount is extremely high. Along with T. C. McCarthy's Germline,...
View ArticleLinks! Of! Interest!
More Spinetingler Magazine stuff: A brief Q/A about Bullettime, and in a shocking twist, the fellow conducting the interview actually read the book first. Some Lakota bands are raising money to buy...
View ArticleFriendly practice next week in Chicago?
If you're1. going to Worldcon or,1a. are otherwise in Chicago and2. practice taijiquan or a similar art, and3. want to get in some friendly tui shou practice, like sothen please,4. drop me a...
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Foodtruck Thursday
After a local apartment block burned down, taking out a bar and three restaurants, things have been pretty dreary on Telegraph Ave. To spice things up and recapture some otherwise lost trade, a number...
View ArticleBook review follies
At the beginning of the month, the complaint was too many positive reviews.Then it was too many negative reviews. (Apparently, it's unfair to critique an author's plots, or her word choice and use of...
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Wednesday Quick Notes
My dayjob anthology The Future Is Japanese got rave review from io9.com io9 has really had a significant positive effect in the past, so I hope this sells some copies. I'd really like to do another...
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Worldcon Report, in Bullet Points
Worldcon was much better than I thought it would be, given the meh website, the WHUUU guest of honor, and the hahahahaha-ohman programming sign-up template. Some notes and thoughts:I was pleased with...
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Monday Quick Notes
What I mentioned obliquely before, now in screencapped tweet form:So much for organized fandom taking a stand against sexual harassment. For Rene Walling, the Readercon Creeper, apparently all is...
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