(Weirdest thing of all? Both Jeff and Evil Monkey have agreed to learn to cook using this arcane and insane book as a reward to Ann for all of the many, many hours of reading she is doing for the big book of weird project, on top of Weird Tales and everything else…) Evil Monkey: […]
The Nebula Award finalists have been announced, and my novel Finch is up in the best novel category. To be honest, when I got the call Wednesday it was a complete shock. I was in the middle of reading for the big book of weird fiction and my first response was something along the lines […]
I have to admit to being a little exhausted from all of the reading for weird. About time for a break. But I did want to share a couple of wickedly funny things that I encountered, kind of peripheral to the weird reading. They’re funny in part because they’re also serious. The first are these […]
Me, I’m going to be flailing around at 9pm EST in Second life for a Copper Robot interview. I’d also like to alert you to the publication of Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, guest edited by Kevin Brockmeier. This is the third installment of the best-of anthology Ann and I founded with help from Sean […]
Well, it’s been fun, but it’s almost over. As indicated in the previous post, our deadline for submissions to the Steampunk Reloaded anthology has come and gone. Ann and I are still looking through one last batch of submissions, but otherwise we’re done. And I never have to read another steampunk story again. This isn’t […]
Selected excerpts from readings… “Hmmm, yes,” he muttered, “sponges did occupy my thoughts for several hours. But so what, damn it?” he suddenly yelled out. “This still doesn’t make sense!” *** “Ha, ha, ha!” laughed Godziemba. “Hi, hi, hi!” seconded the woman. “He, he, he!” responded the engineer. And, from other reading… “Bassett Morgan is […]
(More on these three old anthos later in the week.) Yes, this is that inevitable, unavoidable post about deadlines. First off, our deadline for sending in reprint submissions for our Steampunk anthology is today. Which means, if you want to have a story submitted, we need to get it by midnight tonight EST. If you’re […]
We didn’t really buy this book (at Chamblin’s Bookmine) because we thought it would be of use for our book of weird reading. We bought it because…how can you resist that cover art? Little did we know the treasures we’d find inside.
There are about 300 more weird apartments pets beaches bars castles ruins highways houses outdoor theaters cars dirt roads nights professors writers painters musicians lovers enemies creatures farms dungeons catacombs books janitors fisherfolk faces eyeballs spinal cords things in bottles clocks knives mental hospitals etc in mah brains now than 48 hours ago.
It’s raining here in Tallahassee, and it’s cold–in a word, narsty. Bearlike and grumbly, I’m about to go back into my hidey-hole soon and resume reading for our collosus of a weird fiction anthology for Grove Atlantic, soon to disembowel or set aside for snacking later many dozens of stories—and likely still grumbly. Picking the […]