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Book Stuff
Dog is still alive!And I Am Providence ARCs are in the house! Pre-order now for August release! (This will also help with cancer med pills for Kaz, btw.)This discerning reader has my novelette "We...
View ArticleHaven't updated in so long
Just busy with my life falling apart and all that! Anyway, I figure I'll write the most perverse update ever—did you know that Miley Cyrus actually released a good song? It's TRUE!
View ArticleDavid A. Riley
UPDATE: David A. Riley has stepped down from the HWA jury.You may remember last year, when everyone found out that David A. Riley, a British writer and editor, was a long-time member of the fascist...
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Two Weird Bits
At ICFA, someone acquired and read, overnight, a copy of The Last Weekend, and the next day wanted to ask me about my life as a young person in Youngstown, Ohio, a place I have never even visited.And...
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Philip Edward Kaldon, RIP
I am so sorry to hear of the death of writer, physicist, and long-term LJite dr_phil_physicsOh geez, his last post reads, in part: Congestion mostly gone, the big globs of green phlegm are gone, but I...
View ArticleAttention Illiterates—Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Nyarlathotep on Pseudopod!
Enough dreariness, here's some freeeee entertainment, and you won't even have to engage your eye-holes.The latest episode of Pseudopod is up, and its feature recording is my short Lovecraftian science...
View ArticleHugo Award nominations
Congratulations to Chuck Tingle, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and the other bunch of nobodies I've never even heard of.
View ArticleSome updates
Was away this weekend and the dog took a turn for the worse, but recovered partially. We nearly euthanized her as she wasn't eating even human-grade food while I was gone, but my return and her...
View ArticleHANZAI JAPAN is a Locus Award finalist
Pleased that Hanzai Japan is a finalist for the Locus Award in the Best Anthology category.Check it out, and congrats to all the nominees!
View ArticleHint Fiction
The gun George Zimmerman is selling will inexplicably reappear in his home and continue whispering "Put me in your mouth..." every night
View ArticleKatherine Dunn
I'm reminded of a workshop I did when in school once--it was a useless mushy one. We all had to go around and describe our goals as writers.My goal, I said, was to write a perennial blacklist seller, a...
View ArticleThe Return of the Mumbles
I'll be reading from both I Am Providence and The Last Weekend at Borderlands Books this Saturday. Full deets:Nick Mamatas, THE LAST WEEKEND (Night Shade Books, Trade Paperback, $15.99) & Steve...
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Three quicks
Had a fun reading at Borderlands Books this weekend. Actually, it was the usual miserable reading, but many copies of The Last Weekend were sold, both in the lead up to the event and on the day itself....
View ArticleTada!
Actually wasn't to difficult at all to get Opie to sleep without a zillion stories or glasses of water or the ability to nurse him. He was tired after a longish day; he wanted to go to bed, and he did.
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This is it
The worst thing about going to euthanize Kazzie is that moment, in the kitchen, getting ready, when I catch myself thinking "I need to fill her water bow—oh, no I don't."
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Orlando shooting
That's one way for Islamic radicals to guarantee continued liberal participation in the war on terror.
View ArticleThe "terror gap"
Well, that's one way to get liberals to support the idea of a secret uncheckable list of bad people.
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