Just a little aside re creating cool stuff and realizing a vision: People who start out saying “no” and “no, that can’t be done” and “no, that’s too ambitious” when you start talking about a creative process (perhaps even before you’ve finished explaining)…those people are already entering a downward spiral of lowered expectations. Don’t be […]
They’ve apparently just found George W. Bush’s AWOL soul: Via Enter Zee Octopoid
The New Art scene, I must say, got old fast. A kind of tunnel vision soon set in whereby a painting was either New Art or Not New Art. Those works identified as Not New Art were dismissed as unimportant or somehow of lesser ambition. I admit to participating in this mindset, although for the […]
This blog post is part of my ongoing “60 Books in 60 Days” encounter with the Penguin Great Ideas series–the Guardian’s book site of the week and mentioned on the Penguin blog. (Their latest post comments on the first 20.) From mid-December to mid-February, I will read one book in the series each night and […]
I just posted the secret New Year’s resolutions of the detectives featured in new novels by Charlie Huston, Paul Tremblay, John Meaney, and Jedediah Berry. A little teaser: Huston: Get the decomposed dead guy smell out of my favorite jeans. Tremblay: I will steal my mother’s clown pants. That is not code for anything with […]
My introduction to the limited edition of The Unblemished, from Earthling Publications…
This blog post is part of my ongoing “60 Books in 60 Days” encounter with the Penguin Great Ideas series–the Guardian’s book site of the week and mentioned on the Penguin blog. (Their latest post comments on the first 20.) From mid-December to mid-February, I will read one book in the series each night and […]
Let’s see if this works. If it does I will be able to simul-podcast all short blog posts using a talking squirrel. So click here and see if you get a squirrel podcast of my sleep emails from this post. Let me know.
Gavin Grant reports that Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror is no more, although it might be revived in the future, and that Ellen Datlow will move on to edit two horror year’s bests for Night Shade Books. The anthology’s sales had been dipping over the last few years, and packaging-wise no real attempt was made […]
Some free nonfiction while I’m cleaning out my files: my afterword to Moorcock’s Wizardry and Wild Romance, MonkeyBrain Books edition from 2004… “Believe me, pards, we’re living in an age of myths and miracles.” – from King of the City by Michael Moorcock If you’ve read Wizardry & Wild Romance before turning to this afterword, […]