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[ no ISBN yet, Steve, so no purchase point, no cover you can release, what am I supposed to do here, loser? ]
–you can post a thumb of the author photo, yeah?
[ yeah, whatever. I’m sure that’s exactly what everybody wants ]
–and, and I’ll kind of do a write-up that’s not a write up about the book, maybe?
from the back of the book :
it’s this dad, this dad on the lamb, hiding down in that old fugitive myth of Old Mexico, when he’s offere…
Every once in a while, something especially cool happens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flushboy (2013) and Not for Nothing (2014).
Which, a quick sort-of breakdown:
–Flushboy‘s what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love stories. It’s this kid, pretty much indentured into working the drive-through window at his father’s Bladder Hut, a drive-through urinal. Or, it’s him, growing into himself, becoming who he a…
New/excellent/killer/wonderful cover and isbn for the story collection, now called The Ones That Got Away.
Was lucky enough to be in the fifty stories Brian Evenson selected for Wigleaf.
Clutch of new stories over at Shadowbox, here.
New story “Sunsets Unlimited” at Hobart.
Review of Splice at the San Antonio Current.
I think I’ve got an entry coming up here, soon, about the book I’d like to be buried with. Though everybody else is doing such stron…
Looks like that “The Ones Who Away” story of mine’s going in Paula Guran’s soon-here THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR. Too, I think the version going in that’s the one I re-rigged for THE ONES THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY, my October/Prime collection. …
So, these judges, they were all huddled together over pizza and beer, and they got to daring each other this and that (I hear there’s pics), and it finally came down to seeing if they could slip a clown into the novelette category, strictly for fun, because who could win again Stephen King and Laird Barron, right?
Anyway, will be my second time to be a finalist here, which is honor enough, really. See all the finalists here (including — twice — Brian Evenson).
M…
Should you need to run me down:
8:00pm Friday night, that triple feature. The poster’s down below here, or bigger in my “etc” photo album. I’m introducing, in this order, DEAD AND BURIED, THE KEEP, and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (also: lots of cool trailers). am more than likely going to get some zombie facepaint, too. just because when it’s around, that’s kind of what I do. often even when it’s not aro…
In case anybody needs me next/AWP week, these are the places I definitely plan on being, though of course I’ll be trolling the bookfair for swag as well, and haunting lobbies, and skulking around busstops, and generally making a nuisance of myself in various restaurants. And, no, I don’t know where any of these places are yet. But I’m sure they’re real, or at least real-ish, which is good enough for me.
PANELS:
Byronic Vampires and Melancholy Green M…
Anybody catch that “Little Lambs” story of mine IRON HORSE ran a few months ago? One of my favorites ever. Looks like it’s coming out again in November, in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s THE WEIRD:A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK FICTIONS. Couldn’t be happier about that.…
Which, isn’t that an old TC Boyle story? It always stuck with me, anyway. But, only mentioning it because it means ‘snow,’ and snow’s in this story of mine up at Juked, “Snow Monsters.” My snow story’s not nearly so long as “Termination Dust,” though. And, also, there’s “Monsters” in the titlte, which never hurts. …
New story up over there, here. My claim is that it’s all made-up. Except for the animal parts.…
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