Tom Piccirilli, RIP
I never re-read books, and I only rarely re-read shorter pieces, but two I often return to are both by Tom Piccirilli, who died today, after a second encounter with brain cancer. I was extremely...
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...in Greece? Forbes of all places, and a Forbes columnist of all people has it right, I think: The Eurozone leadership stopped short of sending tanks onto the streets of Athens, but who needs tanks...
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Busy, but here's a dayjob book!
Too busy to do anything, really. Traveling starting at 2am. Laundry and medical records and the last 1500 words of my novel and and and...and to keep you busy, check out the cover of my latest dayjob...
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I have been in rural Florida all week, where places of business started displaying Confederate flags in response to the recent movement to have them pulled from government facilities. So, it's fairly...
View ArticleRoddy Piper, RIP
What can you say about Roddy Piper? A fantastic performer. How many people can be seventy pounds lighter than their babyface opponent (Hulk Hogan, now erased from history, it seems) and still come off...
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The August issue of Locus Magazine contains appreciations of the late Tom Piccirilli by Brian Keene, Ed Gorman, Linda Addison, Jack M. Haringa, and me. Link leads to product page. Content isn't online....
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In a very unusual turn of events, someone I voted for once—Bernie Sanders—is in the news. I will not be voting for him now as he has joined the Democratic Party. Sanders has always had problems as the...
View ArticleSunday, Sunday, Sunday!
Hey locals, Gene Mapper author Taiyo Fujii is in town and will be reading at Borderlands Books this Sunday along with author Michael J. Martinez at 3pm.Please come!Bring money.
View ArticleWhat did you do in the Puppy Wars, papa?
Here's my Sasquan schedule. I'll also be wherever Taiyo Fujii is, so go where he goes if you also want to see me:Horror/Paranormal: What's NewThursday 17:00 - 17:45, Spokane Falls Suite A/B...
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Sasquan Report
This will be a quick one. I was booked at a new hotel in downtown Spokane, about a mile from the convention center where Worldcon was held. It was a very odd hotel with a safari/no-tell motel theme....
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I recently invited myself onto the podcast Cabbages and Kings to talk about short stories. I had the host read three so we could chat about them.One I liked: "The Red Tower" by Thomas LigottiOne I...
View Article"We Never Sleep"
In a fit of something or other, if not exactly pique, I decided to put my novelette "We Never Sleep", which appeared earlier this year in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, online.We Never Sleep: A...
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Sara/Kate
I didn't get online at the dawn of time, but I was there in the late 1980s, on the second set of TinyMUDs after the original. (Chaos, Islandia, etc.). And there, I met sarakate. I was 17, and she was...
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O Death
Not a good week to know me. An acquaintance from my grad school days has died after a sudden illness. She wanted to be a writer and never quite managed to get published and produced the way she wanted...
View ArticleLet's hang out!
...but, you have to pay me. My next eight-week in person class at the SF Writing Institute Writing the Literary Page Turner: A Workshop in Genre Fiction8 SessionsThursdays 6:30-9:30pmSept 17-Nov 5...
View ArticleWhat Is Industrivism?
If you can read this blog, you can use the calendar function to see what happened on 9/11. (Long story short, I was in line of site of the WTC, and spent much of the afternoon sweeping flaming debris...
View ArticleShort Fiction is Dead
This week I took possession of editor copies of the Russian edition of Haunted Legends (which leaves my name off the cover!), reviewed the galleys for my story, "Exit Through the Gift Shop", which is...
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Oliver's Name Day!
Oliver isn't a very popular name in Greece, and so there are few choices for Name Day. There's February 3rd, but that is very close to my sister's birthday. So the better choice is today, September 17,...
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Baby Stalinists on Twitter are mad at me for wondering why people who proclaim a dozen marginalized identities would sign up with Stalin, who'd just kill them all were he around. I might be stricken...
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Lovecraft Unbound is finally an ebook, with a launch price of 99 cents: amazon, NOOKM, iTunes. This edition does not include the Michael Chabon story from the paperback original, but does, of course,...
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