Picking Up Things Instead of my Pen

This post is not endorsed by facebook. Nor twitter. Though it is because of twitter I’m writing it. Just noticed I’m up to about 7100 tweets. So I did what any rational dude would do: opened my calculator app, multiplied “7100” by a guessed-at average tweet-length of 120 characters. Where that gets me is:

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852,000 characters. So what I did then was open the latest novel I’ve written, which I’ve now pared down to 97K words or so, and did a cha…

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13th Night

Was a good signing line for this last night. It’ll forever be my first comic book signing line, too. And this’ll forever be my . . . first published comic project, I guess (“Werewolves on the Moon,” a chapter of Mongrels adapted to a ten-page comic, is coming out in an anthology at some point, but it was turned in better than a year ago, I think).

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Anyway, the specs on this: the First Folio‘s on tour, and its only Colorado stop is here at CU Boulder. So t…

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The Stanley

One of the cooler group-photos I’ll ever get to have been in, I suspect, since, I mean, it’s too late for me to photobomb The Right Stuff or Reservoir Dogs, or sneak into that hot tub with Steve McQueen, or jump off the roof behind Joan Didion’s Vette:

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And, for reference, here’s the original:

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So cool that Pablo Kiolseth remembered the right way to hold his hands at the front of the shot. Though, had I been actually thinking ahead, I’d have had my Ze

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This Werewolf is Different

Cool. Or, I could just say: TVTropes.

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Gamut Magazine slouches onto the scene

And one of the stories from After the People Lights Have Gone Off is up as a free sample. “Second Chances,” with a cool illustration:

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File Under (Again): Mongrels, Origin Stories

Actually, I wrote Mongrels (and the chapter this could pertain to) a couple of months before cueing this one up. However, Peter Beagle’s famous old story “Lila the Werewolf?” I definitely knew that one.

[ Shelter from Eve Edelson on Vimeo, which his where you have to watch this one, looks like . . . ]

Check here for the first installment of these origin stories. Not sure there’ll be another. Could be, as I remember / think of.

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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XVI

In Colorado, it’s all about the fourteeners. Here, we’re all about the sixteener—which this is, somehow, already, after all these months. So cool, all the werewolf stuff coming my way, all the Mongrels snapshots &etc happening still. All of everything, including all the previous installments, which are going to tax my Julius Caesar numbering: 

And . . . let’s start with Litsy, the best book-place ever:

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Comic Book Covers

Think I’ve got a real weakness for the red ones.

Diego Latorre, Ninjak:

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Jim Lee, Wolf Moon:

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Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key:

 

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[ don’t be surprised if I keep adding red covers/cover art to this page . . . ]…

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Last Couple of Mongrels Events

Really, I think I have a stash of pics from another Mongrels thing, but now I can’t remember where. But I know I have these two anyway, as they’re from the last couple days.

First was up in Fort Collins, with HEX-author Thomas Olde Heuvelt. And, Olde’s not a middle name, that’s just the first part of his last name. He’s a cool dude, smart guy, excellent horror writer.

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We talked about where horror comes from, the kind of genesis for/of each of our bo

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