Classy Awards
Today I thought I'd mention The Classy Awards and put in a specific recommendation for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (under Most Effective Awareness Campaign). Voting ends today, so get to...
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If you happened to click over here today from this you might be interested in my anthology Haunted Legends or some of the books I edit at my day job or perhaps even in peace and/or freedom.Thanks!
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Well, it's been six months I guess, because I just came home to another royalty check for On Writing Horror. This one is for $5.40, which is forty cents more than the last if I remember correctly. Ah,...
View Article"The Soul of Solomon"
The Green Hornet Chronicles was finally recently released, after being announced for the beginning of the summer just past. The anthology is notable only because it contains the "story fragment" called...
View ArticleHenry Rollins vs The Hipsters
A hilarious and inexplicable confrontation based on mutual projections of psychological anxieties and worries about authenticity in the age of Spectacle. Also, everyone's an asshole, especially them.
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Andrew Burt had to a lot of digging to find out any info about my day job at an SF imprint.Note: Google search page-one results for the words Mamatas and imprint.
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My friend Seth has a story in the newest issue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye.Check out No Signal.
View ArticleWriters and depression
In The Rumpus Sam Twyford-Moore writes, in part:Alice W. Flaherty states in The Midnight Disease (2005) that writers are ten times more likely to be manic-depressive than the rest of the population,...
View ArticleIn other news
SF Scope reports that the new owners of Realms of Fantasy is horror publisher Damnation Books. Damnation authors include Lawrence Dagstine and the publisher has launched several innovations in...
View ArticleIn today's mail
The record company publishing company called mailed, Rosie, and I just got a big advance!
View Article$1 eReader Raffle
Disappointed that you didn't get the chance to buy Realms of Fantasy for a dollar? Well, now you can take that dollar and enter a raffle to win an e-reader. The Carl Brandon Society, which is running...
View ArticleMurder or let 'em go?
About five years ago I wrote 15,000 words of a novel in which a school shooting occurs. We've made some attempts to sell it, but then invariably someone shoots up a school and the novel is...
View ArticleHow-To Manual for Child Molestation?
Have you seen this book on Kindle? It's not the only one, btw—Amazon has been selling this for quite some time, in hardcopy. Third-party sellers also sell similar material on amazon.On Twitter today,...
View ArticleThe underestimated wit of The Smoking Gun
This line from an article about the author of the pedo guidebook is golden. See, the author had some mental problems (really?) and was hospitalized. Then he decided to become a writer, as he had...
View ArticleShocklines thread of the day
If you thought Judith Griggs was funny, you definitely have to check out this guy who would solicit stories from people and then publish them under his own name. To convince you to click, here is the...
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Freelance Editorial Follies
vylar_kaftan asked me to comment on this case of someone who spent ten grand on freelance editorial services for his book—the editor in question being the girlfriend/wife of Donald Maass, who...
View ArticleSpeaking of Kindle and self-publishing and maybe even copyright infringement...
This guy really busted some ass on the cover of his kindle book.
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I knew this weeks ago because I'm awesome
but big public YAY for princessalethea for selling her book of a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, Sunday to Huff Muff!
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