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Chelsea Summers on Katelan Foisy:She's got that magic f...

Chelsea Summers on Katelan Foisy:

She's got that magic factor that makes people want to do right by her, to protect her (and I'm looking at you, fearsome Warren Ellis)…

Fearsome?

Fringe music review magazine WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS pus...

Fringe music review magazine WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS pushes its 35th issue live. Ian Holloway says:

The August issue (#35) is now online complete with attached Soundcloud mix. (which is here if you just want music without the words)

As usual you can read it at its own website - here - or at its myspace page - here .

It's the usual ragtag assortment of drone, ambient, noise, psychedelia and wierdness with even a touch of post-hardcore lunacy this month…

More details at his Whitechapel post.

CATCHING THE WAVES: "Reviews of (legitimately) free netla...

CATCHING THE WAVES: "Reviews of (legitimately) free netlabel and/or Creative Commons music. Yes, the music is completely free. Yes, the musicians know. Yes, they welcome donations and purchases. No, you won't be arrested."

The Profession

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr:

The fact that you have completed a work of fiction of which you are proud, which you made as good as you could, makes you as close a blood relative as my brother Bernard. The best thing about our family, our profession, is that its members are not envious or competitive. I was with the great Nadine Gordimer recently, and a reporter encouraged us to speak badly of a writer who made one hell of a lot more money than we did, Stephen King. Gordimer and I defended him. We...

mulhollandbooks.com Is Live

Mulholland Books, a new crime/mystery imprint run by my friend John Shoenfelder, has its full website launch today. Part of why this is interesting is that they've commissioned a shitload of essays by crime writers. And they're running them daily. I've been lucky enough to read a bunch of them in advance, and there's some fascinating stuff in there. Today's is by Nick Tosches, and is in part about getting a letter from George V Higgins, writer of THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE:

"I invented my...

Good Morning, Love Munchkins

My name's Warren Ellis, and I write comics and books and moving pictures and columns and things. This is warren ellis dot com, and this is where I live.

There should be a Station Ident image here, but I forgot to copy over the next five last night, and now I'm at the pub and don't have access to the image pile. So here's a nice picture by Siege. Morning.

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"Alt Hist, http://althistfiction.com, is the new magazine...

"Alt Hist, http://althistfiction.com, is the new magazine of Historical Fiction and Alternate History. Lovers of historical fiction for too long have been denied outlets for short pieces of fiction, as the number of print and online magazines for historical short fiction is very limited compared to the popularity of fiction set in past times. Alt Hist's mission is to provide readers with entertaining and well-written short stories with a historical setting, whether portraying actual events...

"Alt Hist,http://althistfiction.com, is the new magazine ...

"Alt Hist,http://althistfiction.com, is the new magazine of Historical Fiction and Alternate History. Lovers of historical fiction for too long have been denied outlets for short pieces of fiction, as the number of print and online magazines for historical short fiction is very limited compared to the popularity of fiction set in past times. Alt Hist's mission is to provide readers with entertaining and well-written short stories with a historical setting, whether portraying actual events or...

Pioneer One

I haven't watched the first episode all the way through yet, but anyone attempting ambitious internet television deserves support, all the more so when they're trying to make a serious piece of speculative fiction. Here's the site for PIONEER ONE, and here's the first episode:

WEIRD TALES Summer 2010

Delighted to read on my message board that WEIRD TALES' summer 2010 issue is at the printers right now.