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White Man's March
Did you hear about the White Man's Marches scheduled all over the world for Saturday? Maybe, though you certainly didn't see any. This was the white supremacist version of slacktivism, and appeared...
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Tuesday Quick Notes
I got the sig sheets for The Last Weekend last night. See?You can pre-order the signed edition, or the more reasonably priced unsigned hardcoverMeanwhile, I was alerted to yet another Kickstarter...
View ArticleFirst review of THE LAST WEEKEND
...comes in from Seattle Geekly. Among other things, it says: This is definitely not a casual read. It’s only 224 pages, but seems to take more brain power than a typical zombie book. Again, maybe that...
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Dark Dungeons: A Poll
Have you seen the trailer for the film Dark Dungeons...which is an adaptation of Jack Chick's seminal religious tract about the Satanic evils of paper-and-pencil role-playing games?According to the FAQ...
View ArticleArt! And! Poetry!
So I have a poem—"Landmark (After Hitchcock)" in the second issue of Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal, and I arranged for my family to get a copy. (They're Greek, you know.) My sister reports...
View ArticleLucius Shepard
I don't have much to say about Lucius Shepard except that he was always nice to me and I was sad to hear of his passing. He'd been ill for quite a while, and certainly didn't appear to be in the...
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Radical Fiction?
Yesterday, I was part of an event, run by PM Press (the publishers of Sensation) on "radical fiction" last night. The idea was, that as the Anarchist Book Fair is tomorrow, people would be in town, and...
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NEXT TO NOTHING—Keith Banner
He whispers, real sexy with closed eyes, smiling without showing any teeth: "Pepsi Edge. Pepsi Edge. Pepsi Edge."—from "Queers Can't Hear"Next To Nothing can mean a a number of things. It could be a...
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In other literary news...
I believe that this sackcontains my author copies of The Last Weekend. I decided that I won't open it till I get home because I want pictures of me on the BART to be tweeted.
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Tuesday Quick Notes
I think Oliver finds my new novel scary. See?You can buy it here. Supposedly, some orders actually will be processed via amazon as well. The Last Weekend was a long story. Actually, four years ago...
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Friday Quick Notes
I'm a graphic novelist. See?That's All You Need Is Kill, The Graphic Novel. (Link to the nicely discounted product page on rightstuf.com, a great site for anime/manga materials.) Also, in honor of all...
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Καλό μήνα!
The good thing about LJ being dead is that it's not filled with pranks, but instead just the occasional collected Twitter feed of people engaging in anticipatory complaining about pranks... Even Locus...
View ArticleWednesday Quick Notes
Lazyweb is getting worse. In the old days, say on LJ, a lazyweb request for information about something generally didn't bother me. LJers would explain what they needed to know, why, and why their...
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The Last Weekend, a Min-FAQ
We've been getting some questions about my latest novel, The Last Weekend, so here we go.Where's the Kindle version? Where's the paperback?The Last Weekend is currently only available as either a...
View ArticleLOVE IS THE LAW in the Los Angeles Review of Books
I was instantly fascinated when the Los Angeles Review of Books launched a few years ago. At first, its origin was obscure (UC Riverside, as it turns out) and I wondered if it wasn't just some random...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Warrior
The Ultimate Warrior frequently is announced as dead, frequently enough to get a tongue-in-cheek Dead Wrestler of the Week retrospective last week, when he was alive, but now it appears that he truly...
View ArticleThursday Quick Links
All hail the Donetsk People’s Republic, which has no authority outside an 11-story Ukrainian government building that an unruly Russian-speaking, club-bearing crowd has occupied since Sunday. It also...
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Some stuff
What's up with Oliver? He's sitting up. See?And doing other developmental stuff; checking with his mother when a stranger appears, picking things up with his thumb and forefinger, lots of babbling, and...
View ArticleNorwescon
I'll be at Norwescon for work-related reasons, specifically because Toh EnJoe's wonderful book Self-Reference ENGINE is a nominee for the Philip K. Dick Award. Two panels on Saturday:Saturday noon-1pm...
View ArticleIn these dying days of LJ...
...we need all the friends we can get. Have you friended me? Have I not friended you? Comment, and I likely will.
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