Month: December 2008

The Shriek Limited Arrived!

Shriek: An Afterword arrived this afternoon. Signed, limited. Design by Coulthart. Cover by Templesmith. Including my short essay on the novel and previously unpublished sections of Samuel Tonsure’s journal. Not to mention The Church’s soundtrack to the novel on CD (which shipped directly from the label Friday). Some highlights:

Finchy Interlude

I’m still a little giddy after having gotten the initial reaction to Finch from my editor, Victoria Blake, earlier this week. She really really likes it–“remarkable”–and her initial notes for revision are spot-on and extremely insightful, so I feel blessed to be in great hands. There’s no better feeling than knowing you have a partner […]

Dec 15-20: 60 in 60 Week in Review

Visit Omnivoracious every Saturday for a summary of the week’s 60 in 60. This week, Seneca’s in the lead with Machiavelli hard on his heels. Marcus Aurelius has a comfortable lead over Montaigne, with Kempis and St. Augustine setting an idyllic pace in the rear, feeding each other sherbet…

AVP Forum: Ask Me Anything Squishy

I’m currently fielding questions about the Predator novel. I’m also reading Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub and working on “The Quickening,” a tale about a talking rabbit. No, I am not getting the bends. Sample discourse: I really think if you wanted to even the odds, you’d have to have the Aliens and […]

55 to Go, Gawd Help Me

As the Harvard University Press recommends, you should do it too…or just go look at some pretty and pretty unusual books at Dark Roasted Blend.

Bookspot Central’s Best of 2008

Check out these great year’s best lists just posted on Bookspot Central. Very glad Tom Piccirilli’s awesome The Cold Spot is on one list. I was also pleased to see that my novelette from PS Publishing, “The Situation,” made Brian Evenson’s list. Personally, I think it’s the best piece of fiction I had published in […]

Heaven? Hell? Calendar? 2009?

I just found John Coulthart’s 2009 Heaven and Hell calendar, available from Cafe Press. Man, this is some stunningly visionary stuff. Here’s his blog, with more cool stuff available in the sidebar.