It's Funny Because It's True
"The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate’ … for me that would be a shroud."—Joan RiversRIP
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Tonight
50 Mason Social House San Francisco 7PMReadings by me, Joe Clifford,Tom Pitts, Constance Ann Fitzgerald, Michael Paul Gonzales and Travis Richardson!There will be booze.
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Sean O'Haire
I just saw the name on the side of my screen, where Facebook runs trending "news" stories, and knew he was dead. O'Haire was a pro wrestler with some success, but ultimately had nothing to make him...
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My latest dayjob anthology Phantasm Japan is in stores now. Our last anthology received a slew of award nominations and reprinted story, and "Mono No Aware" by Ken Liu won the Hugo, so why not get in...
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Thursday Quick Notes
I, for one, look forward to the destruction of the United Kingdom. YES. The polls are open, so it's a little late to discuss it now, but for the curious I'd recommend this pro-independence site.Here's...
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And Now You Will Suffer
Last night, when the NO votes had it, many people were saying that the vote was so close that of course Westminster could not ignore the disaffected Scots. In response, I tweeted:You can't just ignore...
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The ebook/print magazine Lamplight, Vol. 3, no. 1, which we could say specializes in a more "quiet" horror, contains my 101st sold short story, "Burning Stones.""Burning Stones" isn't my 101st...
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The US has now armed and or attacked the opponents of pretty much every major player in Syria.Ebola continues to run wild.Someone thought arresting a protestor dressed in a polar bear outfit in front...
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When ISIS was supposed to overrun Baghdad, months ago? Whatever happened with that?Also, the default old-school LJ page is now itself defaulting to Russian...or it did for a moment there.
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I was interviewed on Tor.com's Rocket Talk about Phantasm Japan.Here is a review. Positive!And another. Also positive!Buy it please!
View ArticleWe are a Rumpus notable event
Saturday 10/4: Alexandra Kostoulas and Nick Mamatas host Greek American Writers Night, with Katie Aliferis, Annamarie Buonocore, Lydia Athanasopoulou, Apollo Papafrangou, Martha Klironomos, Michael...
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Opie Likes It
Got my contributor copy of Nightmare Carnival today. See?It's a horror anthology, but my piece is a noir about carnie wrestling, called "Work, Shoot, Hook, Rip." I first thought of the idea of writing...
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More shit you gotta buy
My latest and very likely last ever short fiction collection, The Nickronomicon, is now up for pre-order at the link, at a twenty percent discount. It's a Lovecraftian volume of thirteen stories,...
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I'm told people like to hear about numbers
A project like The Nickronomicon is perfect for a micropress—that is a press much like Innsmouth Free Press. It's short stories, which nobody cares about, in the Lovecraftian mode, which nobody cares...
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This post will be one that will likely be shared a few times, often with the appended caveat "Nick always thinks everything is about class"—a phrase none of the people who ever say it would dare use...
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Harlan Ellison has stroke
Screencap of his website guestbook/"pavilion" here:Plain text:SUSAN ELLISON- Sunday, October 12 2014 14:40:3FROM SUSANI will make this brief. A couple of days ago Harlan had a stroke. He's in the...
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Did you know that yesterday was "First violent hyperbolic wish for death free!" day? Sorry you missed it, but it only applied when the person you wanted killed was me. However, it was a never-ending...
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