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Clarion Postscript

If you see this guy, Andrew Emmott, walking the streets… Know that in addition to being the creator of danger frog, he picks up 220 lb men (namely, me) like they’re toothpicks and gives them pile-driver goodbye hugs… All photographic evidence by January Mortimer… Jeff

San Diego–Clarion and Beyond

Here’s a slideshow of our San Diego trip, with a few highlights below. (To access the captions, just click in the lower third of the screen.) After hiking in the mountains, we looked like this:

Talkin’ to the Lizard-Skink

It’s been a fuzzy day, with my head full of nails and cotton candy. You try to get the cotton candy out, and the nails just rattle around. You get rid of the nails, and the cotton candy fluffs up and makes you diaphanous but sickly sweet. So I went out into the yard for […]

“Classic” Post: July 2003–Book Panel

Well, I’m suffering a rather vicious cold, so no posting tomorrow. Here’s another post from the past to hold you until Sat-Sun. Jeff ——- At the World Fantasy Convention last year, I moderated a panel on books as artifacts–the personal nature of books. I recently found the materials I prepared for that panel and thought […]

For Your Reading Consideration…

John Kessel in Prague, from my Amazon blog entry For your Thursday browsing pleasure, a round-up of my recent reviews, columns, and sundries. My Bookslut column for July focuses on catching up with a few comics titles that had slipped through the cracks, along with a new title by Eddie Campbell from First Second, one […]

Finch Excerpt: Novel in Progress

Wyte. The story. He’d gone to investigate a death. By himself. No one else in the station. Call sounded simple. A man. Found dead beneath a tree. Beginning to smell. Most days, not worth bothering with. But it was slow. Wyte took the job seriously. Woman seemed upset. It was down near the bay. Beside […]

Electric Velocipede

Yes, that’s right–it’s National You Should Buy This Day… Electric Velocipede is a cool magazine in the tradition of things like Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. If you like work by Hal Duncan, Tobias Buckell, and dozens of other amazing talents, you really owe it to yourself to purchase a subscription. You can go to the […]

Night Shade Sale

The good folks at NS are having a book sale, which means you, the reader, stand to score some awesome volumes on the cheap: It’s sale time at Night Shade Books again. We’ve got a few big titles coming in, and we need to clear space in a big way! So until midnight on Sunday, […]

Back…

We’re back after a great time teaching at Clarion and then some R&R involving hiking, coyotes, caves, dolphins, wild turkeys, weird moon-scaped meadows, more hiking, lots of great beer, walks by the sea, and, er, more beer. Regular posting will resume starting tomorrow. Jeff

“Classic” Post: Jan 2005–Wild Pigs

So I was out at St. Marks hiking with a friend named Moshe. Moshe is a fascinating guy–he grew up running with gangs in Los Angeles, converted to Judaism, got a law degree and worked for former California governor Pete Wilson for awhile, then moved to Israel, joined the Israeli army, wrote a book about […]