At AWP
Am livetweeting some panels at nmamatas. That's where the content will be this weekend.
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Catching Up Is Hard To Do
I am back in town, and between a cold and a flight and two late nights, I've hardly had time for anything. So, some catch-up:AWP was...fun. It could have been more fun, but weather and the distance to...
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I am sufficiently out of it that I only heard of Cara Hoffman's 2011 novel So Much Pretty thanks to a little note at the bottom of the page in last summer's fiction issue of the anarchist periodical...
View ArticleCrime Time!
Have you caught wind of the Veronica Mars movie kickstarter?You may remember it as a teen detective show with one good season. Well, it might be coming back, thanks apparently to the grudging agreement...
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Never Mind the Pollacks, Show Me the Money!
Gosh, it was just a few days ago when I tweeted:I thought of Pollack at AWP, when I attended a panel on teaching "blue-collar" students creative writing. It was a better panel than I thought it would...
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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!I just wish I were in Boston this weekend, instead of last weekend.
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A to Z Theory by Toh EnJoe is now live on Strange Horizons.His book, of which the story is a part, is called Self-Reference ENGINE. It comes out tomorrow.A lot of people claim to like hard science...
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STARVE BETTER, now on amazon!
Starve Better is now on amazon, by which I mean that the book is physically in stock there. It's only rarely been in stock before, and then in 2011 when the book first launched and sold well, and then...
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ON THE ROAD
What the hell did I just watch?Or, to put it another way, if you're going to coach an actor who is playing Jack Kerouac, don't say, "Eh, just act like Steve Buscemi," especially when Steve Buscemi...
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Wednesday bits
Here's a podcast, by Robert Swartwood, with me, on the topic of AWP. Actually, we recorded two sessions, but only one came through. So it ends kind of quickly.According to Me at Twenty-One, I have...
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Coming in September
Love is the Law, my first crime novel. Here's the mostly final cover:More on this later. Much more, a little later. Out in September.
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Saturday Big Notes
Lots of stuff today. I started out by going and spectating at the Berkeley Chinese Martial Arts Tournament, which was actually fun. I livetweeted the push-hands competition, and Storifyied the...
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I am enjoying my retirement. After the latest microdust up more than one person reached out to me to say that they finally understood why I retired from writing SF/F/H.Of course, I still have my day...
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FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
From Up On Poppy Hill is the latest Studio Ghibli import, and was made by Goro rather Hayao Miyazaki, though Miyazaki did the storyboards. (Note, I normally edit the Ghibli art book series, but we...
View ArticleThe Fulfillment of the Pre-Retirement Solicitation
My story "Exit Through the Gift Shop" will appear in the new anthology SEARCHERS AFTER HORROR*, S.T. Joshi, ed. Fedogan & Bremer, pub, along with work by by Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín Rebekah...
View ArticleThey're overthrowing the WASPs in heaven now!
Also, please read Ebert's review of the 1994 film North.
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Three Things I Like
I read "Bunraku" by David X. Wiggins in ms form a few years ago, and was surprised that he was having trouble having it published. Indeed, I nearly bought it for The Future is Japanese, but it was...
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A large species of tarantula, roughly the size of an adult human face, has been discovered in Sri Lanka.Did they really have to describe the spider in terms of human faces in the very first graf?
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