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Monster Cutie: For Your Cuddly Hideous Lab Experiment Needs

My daughter used to call her soft toys "cuddle stuff."  I wonder how she would have taken to this horrific accident from Monster Cutie.  (Probably would have loved it.)

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(Hubert Motley. Jr.)

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The Mandated Monday Workpost

William Gibson once said to me, you don't learn how to write a book so much as you learn how to write the book you're writing.  Or something like that.

DEATH BAR

 

Not visualised in GUN MACHINE novel progress Death Bar: all the words I tossed out as I was trying to get back into the flow and learning how to write the book I'm writing.  And this one's going in layers.  Get 2K down, then go back to the first 1K, whittle at it, brush in more colour.  Which is, at this stage, a bit painful.  But it seems to be how this book wants to be written.  Every thousand words seems to be the block of clay that four hundred words are waiting to emerge from.  Right now, I have a spread of pages marked up with the word "insert": there are interstitial scenes waiting to be chipped out from the spaces between the sequences I already have.

I will eventually get up to speed with this.  I have, I think, a clear run this week.

Film Project INVISIBLE ZATOICHI has a spine – a sort of rickety, horribly curved one, with a bifurcation and some fused bones, but it's there.  I'm letting it lay fallow in my head for a few days, until enough stuff springs from the ground for me to gather up and paste to the spine all at once.

And I think we just firmed up the one print project I'm going to do with Avatar this year.  Oh, and putting the conclusion of the troubled ANNA MERCURY 2 back on a schedule.  (After that, DOKTOR SLEEPLESS.)

I'm halfway through my projected run on SECRET AVENGERS for Marvel, now, and casting around for what the last three issues will be about.  And I have a shitload of chickenscratch in a notebook that'll turn into FELL #11 this month.

And that's all I've got today.  Back to work.  In the meantime, here's a photo of me being unpleased at being awake and working this afternoon.

Laurenn McCubbinLaurenn's selling prints

Laurenn McCubbin

Laurenn's selling prints

The Infernal Device

Artificers and maniacs in Michigan looking for help with their plan to build a huge insane solar-and-wind-powered mechanical sculpture out of salvaged material:

…with a 25-foot long and 8 foot high spinning/rotating painting as one of the central moving pieces. Other pieces will include animated sculptures/statues, also powered by the same sources – these many moving parts and figures will make the Device much like the clocktowers of old – with interesting movement and activity in every corner of the piece.

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Molly Crabapple's Hypothetical Lady Gaga

From NEW YORK magazine, where a bunch of other designers and artists had a go.

Eliza Gauger Art For Sale

Including this monstrous thing that I love, and many other things at this link here.  Instalment payments available too.

LA NOIRE

Forthcoming from my publisher, Mulholland Books: an ebook of short shories published in conjunction with Rockstar Games, based on their game of the same name.

Authors with stories in the anthology include such renowned writers as Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski and Andrew Vachss. 1940s Hollywood, murder, deception and mystery take center stage as readers reintroduce themselves to characters seen in L.A. Noire. Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight; heroes turned defeated men; and classic Noir villains. Readers will come across not only familiar faces, but familiar cases from the game that take on a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and their ill-fated victims..

Released June 6.  Megan Abbott's story made available for free at the link.

Station Ident

Phil Gyford dug this into the Essex sand for me.  I consider this heroic.  Good morning.

Eastern State Penitentiary Cassandra Melena

Eastern State Penitentiary
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