Monday Quick Notes
I attended a rally and march in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip yesterday, and tweeted some photos. Here they are, via Storyify, for your viewing convenience.My next online writing class...
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The Amazon/Hachette conflict continues, and Amazon needs to get some better PR people:When PW contacted Amazon about the conversation, a spokesperson for the company said: "You have to look at the...
View ArticleSelf-publishing and writer organizations
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has decided to allow self-publishing as a criterion for its membership, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) is currently contemplating the...
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Out East
I am on the East Coast. O's parents are churchy, so we baptized the baby in their a United Methodist church, which takes about five minutes. (An Orthodox baptism ritual is both interminable and...
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The owner and head foreman of a farm in Greece have been cleared over the shooting of a group of migrant workers in which 30 were wounded.The Greek left has to now focus its primary attention not on...
View ArticleThomas Ligotti and True Detective
It wasn't difficult to notice that the HBO TV show True Detective was influenced by philosophical horror author Thomas Ligotti, and recently the Lovecraft ezine ran some articles on the possibility of...
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For kest
Finally, A Free Lunch!“Misha, help!” Emily screamed. She had always wanted to talk to Misha Collins, but that was all she managed before the elopus’s tentacle-trunk wrapped around her face, filling her...
View ArticleWas H.P. Lovecraft a good writer?
There's a petition going around requesting that the World Fantasy Award change its prize from a bust of H.P. Lovecraft to one of Octavia Butler, and it is a ridiculous petition for several reasons. The...
View ArticleWe can shut down Twitter now
The ultimate Tweet has been achieved. Hello @wwf remember when I was your fucking champion and I beat the fuck out of every animal in the world?— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) August 11, 2014
View ArticleI don't give a shit.
When do you see this much physical humor and expert comic timing on TV anymore? You don't.RIP Robin Williams.
View ArticleSome stuff
Over at Haikasoru, we are running a giveaway contest for Phantasm Japan. Our last anthology, The Future Is Japanese was nominated for the Locus Award, contained the eventual Hugo Award-winning short...
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More junk for you to read.
I'm on the "Geek Pride" (ugh) blog of Psychology Today, talking about being a failure. The headline, "On Success and Failure", is not mine. This is a failure-only personal essay!The August Locus...
View ArticleNational Guard to Ferguson
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered the National Guard to Ferguson to help restore order to the St. Louis suburb after a week of sometimes-violent protests over the fatal police...
View ArticleUp All Night
Twitter remains fascinating for conversational speed, from the events in Missouri to a local campaign against an Israeli boat docking at the Port of Oakland to some guy's meltdown over his cheating...
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Monday Quick Notes
It's been a lot of quick notes entries of late. The trend will probably break this week. But for new, the New York Times writes:There is, again, no sign that Brown did anything in his encounter with...
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Here's a very interesting IMDB entry.
Bare bones right now, but more TK, including my Story credit.Under My Roof.Poster, that's what's up:
View ArticleMind...MELT!
I am part of another SFSignal Mind Meld, this one on underrated authors. Only some of the answers were embarrassing: Joe Hill, Bulgakov, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A current acclaimed bestseller...
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Some Hells
There are innumerable hells in which a writer can find himself or herself, and no heavens at all. Sick narcissists don't deserve heaven, after all, and there's a gateway to hell on every page someone...
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All This Stuff and More
The latest number of The Big Click is out, featuring a rarity for us—a story with a police officer protagonist. We also have reviews, essays, a story by Jan Mantooth, and all that sort of thing. Buy an...
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