Author: SGJ

It’s just a campfire story, it’s just a campfire story 

Need need NEED to figure out how to get my hands on this one. Not so I can read it. Just so I can hold it. I mean, foreign stuff usually wends its way to me through the publishers, but that can take forever, too. Ready to not-read this one now:

It’s out in the world now. Mine’s in transit, but I trust it’ll look just a whole lot like this:

Think I’m in three of these anthologies over at LitReactor:

• https://litreactor.com/columns/13-halloween-themed-anthologies-to-fill-your-season-with-fright#comments

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• https://oldfirehousebooksblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/review-mapping-the-interior/

Honored for Mapping to have made this list:

• https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/13-essential-ownvoices-science-fiction-fantasy-novels/

Man, was at the gym long about 11:15 yesterday, just having a good time reading a JS Breukelaar collection and sweating on various torture devices, when I got a call that maybe I could clean up and drive into my office on campus (like, MILES away) by noon, to talk to the newspeople for a segment that afternoon? Answer, always, when media calls: “Can’t talk right now, I’m already going to that place you told me to be at.” So, I made it, it was great talking zo…

Many thanks to Mallory O’Meara for the include on this excellent horror list over at Vulture:

• http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/best-horror-books-for-wimps.html

Was there this weekend, giving a couple of talks for Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop. Always neat to walk through places I grew up. And, I realized: when I left Texas, I never considered that one thing I’d been taking for granted all along was Whataburger trash in the bear grass: