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Tuesday Quick Notes
Well, over the weekend, I flew out to New York, and this happened:Yup. I am now president of the Mystery Writers of America's Northern California Chapter. Nothing beats an uncontested election!Speaking...
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My latest LitReactor.com online class starts tomorrow. Slots still available; sign ups through midnight tomorrow! Come see if you're any good at writing!
View ArticleThis Might Be It
I'm writing this here because LJ is moribund and I don't want a ton of sympathetic remarks. Kazzie has a tumor that is pressing against her urethra, and at age 15 she will probably die soon. She had a...
View ArticleReading With A Cold
Tonight, despite a fairly bad sinus cold, I gave a brief reading at the Inkwell Reading Series. See?"It's like Uber, but for getting a hole drilled in your head." @NMamatas, on his new book The Last...
View ArticleHugo Awards
I'm not going to list all my eligible publications, but I do want to talk about a couple of things. The first is the film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Citing precedent from the...
View ArticleLocus Poll!
The Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List and Poll—which forms the basis of the eventual Locus Award nominees—is out today, and I'm pleased to see that Hanzai Japan is on it, as is my day job...
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How to Successfully Read The Last Weekend
Originally posted by la_fields at How to Successfully Read The Last Weekend(Book Review for The Last Weekend)- First read The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson (or see the movie if you're just a tourist...
View ArticleBernie Sanders, A Personal FAQ
Hey Nick, are you going to vote for Bernie Sanders?Nope.Why not?He's a Democrat. I don't vote for Democrats. Why not?Because I'm a socialist.But isn't Sanders a socialist?Not really. At best he's a...
View ArticlePUBLISHERS WEEKLY reviews THE LAST WEEKEND
Mamatas's wisecracking philosophical undead opus vivisects genre stereotypes and moral preconceptions with viciousness and style. Failed writer Vasilis, a driller for the infected city of San...
View ArticlePerhaps THIS review of THE LAST WEEKEND will convince you to buy a copy!
BuyZombie.com sez:Some have detected a Salingeresque air in The Last Weekend. I can see it, but such recognition of incidentals isn’t necessary to appreciate and enjoy the story. It’s full of...
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Deadpool
Remember a couple of years ago when Guardians of the Galaxy came out and everyone was raving about how great and funny it was, and then when you finally saw it months later, on an airplane, it was just...
View ArticleNew(ish) novelette
"On the Occasion of My Retirement" is now live on Apex Magazine.The story originally appeared in my collection, The Nickronomicon. (ebook's less than five bucks, cheap!)
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The LOL Weekend
Fresh Fiction, a heart-festooned and extremely busy-looking website has made The Last Weekend a "fresh pick", by which I guess they mean they have a link to it in the upper right-hand corner of every...
View ArticleMonday Quick Notes
Here's an interview with me over at the website Slush Pile Heroes: "A more autobiographical The Last Weekend would be about someone who eats a lot of cupcakes during the zombie apocalypse."At the day...
View ArticleThe Last Click
After three years, we launched the farewell issue of The Big Click, a Libby Cudmore special in celebration of her debut novel The Big Rewind. We talk about why we are closing down the magazine a bit...
View ArticleFriday Quick Notes
Here's a list of sixty-one books I recommended on Twitter the other day.Obsessed with this song all day yesterday:Dog's still alive; is eating canned hams and rotisserie chickens instead of dog...
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The St. Patrick's Day tradition continues
Sean MacGowan has new teeth!But lest we forget...
View ArticleMonday Quick Notes
I went to ICFA this past weekend. I was definitively reminded of why my tolerance for conventions is so low these days, despite having nothing but a good time catching up with people, poking around...
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