Until I saw this article, I thought I was just crazy–people kept replying to emails I couldn’t remember sending. But it turns out if you sleepwalk, you can send emails in your sleep. Here are a few of the emails I sent out. Anybody had a similar experience?
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 […]
Received via website feedback form: Dear Mr. VanderMeer, I have to admit right off the bat that I’m not terribly familiar with your work; though I’ve seen your name on the shelves at stores and on various contents pages while thumbing through anthologies, the only real contact I’ve had with your fiction comes from book […]
For an upcoming story about the nature of dreams, I’m writing about an adjunct professor at a strange college in the South. The recipe is as follows, always remembering that without love, inspiration, and discipline nothing in this world is more than merely edible: 1 character from my imagination and memories from university, conjured up […]
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 am enjoying the heck out of this book. Not only does it combine disciplines and subjects of interest to writer and reader, it talks in unique ways about form in fiction. This is especially useful after you acquire a certain level of mastery, by which I mean you might pick up a regular writing […]
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 […]
It’s been a great year for Weird Tales, and Stephen Segal emailed to say that on their website they have a great round-up, making a case for being nominated for a Hugo in the semi-prozine category. Below the cut I’m stealing from Sir Tessa’s recent post, because I’m lazy (hope she’ll forgive me). Especially note […]
A blunt sharp shock to the system… Cover: By the amazing John Coulthart. For a larger version, click here. An interesting fact–John tells me the cobblestones in the picture are from a photo he took while we were walking through Paris together; er, sans blood. (This design is semi-final, in that a blurb will probably […]
(A favorite new cover: just another day at the office with my needle-fanged maggot-parasite.) A slow week as publicists everywhere uncurl from their cryogenic cyborg slumber in sensory deprivation tanks and slowly take up again once more their ancestral positions influencing the minds of gatekeepers across the multiverse. Processing new permutations of press release boilerplate […]