World Fantasy Convention membership available
Kevin Donihe is selling his World Fantasy Convention membership for this month's con for $100.00. (It's more than that to buy one now.)To buy it, please write him at kldoniheATyahooDOTcomThat was...
View ArticleIt's just a tiff file to be placed on spines now
Soft Skull's office in NY to shut. I was just thinking of my time at SSPI the other day, and the obvious shift from my list (Mickey Z, William Blum, Stan Goff) too the "left of the possible"—Ted Rall,...
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You know what hasn't happened lately? A school shooting.
Suzana Vidovic found her sister's body hanging over the front lawn. The family watched, she said, as the girls who had tormented Sladjana for months walked up to the casket – and laughed."They were...
View ArticleMonday quick links
Here's a bunch of stuff you can buy for a dollar in a raffle. I threw in a trio of assorted Haikasoru titles! No, not as good as last year's prize—a pornographic story about the winner—but still, it's...
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Remember me?
I haven't posted all week—mostly very busy, also I had a couple of post ideas but abandoned them as not being very interesting. Though one I may work on now. I'm also home today as la_nausicaa took a...
View ArticleAh, community college!
My sister teaches composition at a community college and one of the pieces she has students read is by me. She just tweeted a nigh inevitable response to it:"You're brother wrote this? Is he rich? Why...
View Articlebig ups to princessalethea
And they say the Times Book Review doesn't cover women or genre fiction.
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Bouchercon
Today I bought a day pass to Bouchercon, which is an industry conference for mystery/crime writing. It was actually much like the World Fantasy Convention, except that people dressed nicely. I only...
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The Berkeley Rule
I actually walked out of a restaurant this morning, leaving la_nausicaa and her friend Kerry waiting to give their orders to the man behind the register, walked across the street to another place,...
View ArticleMonday Quick Notes
Ben, whom I've enjoyed hanging out with this weekend, offers his Bouchercon wrap-up, writing in part, "If I had gripes, the first would be that I don’t understand some of the animosity aimed at...
View ArticleRealms of Fantasy again
Should there be any interest in purchasing the magazine I will gladly sell Realms to a responsible party for $1.00 and give them the finished files for the December issue.I'm tempted. A shame this...
View ArticleTeam Rocket is hiring!
Magazine Sales and Marketing Associate!andAssociate producer, DVDs!A clever person who knows me will write to me first...
View ArticleWe've reached our quotas
...of incompetent wannabes complaining about Black Ladies taking all the good jobs, and also fuming that somehow their stories are being passed over for publication.But rest assured that they all work...
View ArticleHey, Mr C!
Even now Tom Bosley is crawling over the frozen rocks of hell, seeking out the shade of Alexander the Great, for only he can convince Alexander to rally the endless legions of the pagan damned, to...
View ArticleOh ho ho ho
S.T. Joshi once made the remark that Robert E. Howard studies/fandom is about twenty years behind Lovecraft studies/fandom in that the Howardians are still going nuts whenever anyone does a little...
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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUNS WILD AS SHARIA LAW ENFORCED AT SCI-FI CON, WOMEN...
SF3 has withdrawn the invitation to Elizabeth Moon to attend WisCon 35 as guest of honor.And the new replacement GoH? You guessed it!More seriously—the lie has now been put to the tactic of writing...
View ArticleHalloween reading
SF in SF is having a Halloween reading this Saturday, the 23rd. I'll also be reading from an unpublished and likely unpublishable zombie novel (A book with zombies in it? What can I say! It came to me...
View Articleblah blah precedent blah
William Sanders was disinvited as an honored guest at ICFA in 2008, over similar Islamophobic remarks. So the thing with Wiscon and Moon is not a precedent. In fact, someone paying close enough...
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