Month: June 2008

Meme: Global Blogosphere Amnesty Week (for Apologies)

Matt Staggs has an excellent post here about the need for sincerity and transparency in this era of the internet and social media. One of his major points is: “Make any necessary apologies. Yes, mom was right. A sincere apology is the best tool that you have in your crisis communication toolbox.” I think we’ve […]

Meg Gardiner Interview on Amazon

I just posted my comprehensive interview with Meg Gardiner, whose China Lake found a US publisher after Stephen King raved about the book in Entertainment Weekly. I found Gardiner a sharp and interesting interview subject. Excerpt: Cults divide the world into Good–them–and Evil–the rest of us. To those in their blessed little band they offer […]

Praise for Steampunk–and Other Anthos to Check Out

The Fix has a very positive review of our Steampunk anthology running today. As this review and others have noted, there’s a pleasing aspect to both Steampunk and The New Weird that you don’t find in most fiction anthos. In that we thought hard about how each anthology should “look” structurally and we then worked […]

The Church’s CD of Shriek Music: Awesome

(The cover of the Shriek limited, art by Ben Templesmith, design by John Coulthart; extras include The Church’s Shriek CD, a DVD of the Shriek movie, and some other surprises; possibly, Ambergris stamps.) I’ve got a mile-wide grin on my face right now. I just received the 45-minute CD of music The Church recorded as […]

My Favorite Fantasists in the Short Story Form

(Cover art to the amazing Tin House: Fantastic Women volume, guest-edited by Rick Moody) In thinking about reading for Best American Fantasy, two things really stood out for me: (1) the Tin House: Fantastic Women volume was the most spectacular single issue I read, holding up and in fact becoming more luminous and deep with […]

Escaping The Prisoner’s Island

Very funny post about how various writers would escape the island featured in the British TV show The Prisoner. Jeff VanderMeer would disappear underground in the caves around the village, and he would be the only one to escape the carnage from the old ones beneath. Actually, since I need some uninterrupted writing time, I […]

Enter the Octopus Redux

Check out the latest from Enter the Octopus, the blog of Matt Staggs, whose links posts have already become the stuff of legend. An interview with Andrew Cooper, who just made his first fiction sale. A review of Chabon’s A Gentleman of the Road And, of course, the links Inferno-blitzkrieg that is…Matt’s Bookosphere

Just Call Me “Dream-Killer VanderMeer”

Every once in awhile my Amazon feature on Joe Nigg’s How to Raise and Keep a Dragon still gets a comment from a kid, like this one: I have NO IDEA of how to get the FULL address of where the Mushussu dragons are sold. I don’t know the cost either.My mom, though, is willing […]