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Clarkesworld Today

The latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is online today, and it features an interview conducted by Jeff VanderMeer with several "emerging writers," including that upright gentleman Jesse Bullington who was so kind as to name-drop yours truly when asked what writers have "really excited" him recently.

And speaking of really exciting writers, this is the second time that my name at least has appeared in a publication with a new Kyle Murchison Booth story by Sarah Monette.  Hey, I'll take my vicar

Some People

This week has been a little rougher than I expected around the ol' homestead, in no small part because of some technical difficulties with the wife's computer.  We are fairly certain at this point that it's a lost cause, and the only things left now are preparing last rights and figuring out the most cost-effective way to replace it with another goldfish without the kids noticing a younger model.

However, it's not all been gloom and busted computers on the Internet.  Dashing rogue, hero of the re

(Re?)launch

I have had this website for a little while now, and I haven't really used it to anything like its full effect, due, in part, to a variety of technical difficulties.  Starting pretty much right now, however, I plan to start at least updating this journal on a regular basis.  I will keep crossposting the entries to my LiveJournal (manually, for the time being), so you can feel free to follow me there if you'd rather.  Comments are welcome either place.

For those of you who've been following along,

"The Worm that Gnaws" at Pseudopod

My short story "The Worm that Gnaws" is up on Pseudopod as of Friday. I'm always excited whenever I get to see a story of mine in print, but honestly I've seldom ever been as excited as this. I love audio fiction, and Pseudopod does it as well as anyone, and the narrator they got for my story (Ian Stuart) is absolutely perfect. Getting to hear him bring my story to life (and I really think that's what he does) made me extremely happy.

I don't read nearly as many short fiction periodicals as I kno

Prolegomenon

For those of you who don’t already know who I am and what I do:

My name is Orrin Grey.  I write weird and ghostly stories, but it has never been my primary intention to scare anyone.  Above all I want the stories I write to be fun, and what’s fun for me happens to be curses and ghosts and monsters.  Several people have called what I write “weird adventure,” and I like the ring of that, so that’s what I use as often as not.

2009 has been a good year for me so far.  My first chapbook novella, THE MY

P. Craig Russell does “From Beyond”

As those of you who follow me on Goodreads are probably already aware, I’ve been on a P. Craig Russell kick lately.  But one of the most interesting things I’ve read by him is something that I can’t really talk about on Goodreads, so I thought I’d talk about it here: his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “From Beyond.”

“From Beyond” is, for a Lovecraft story, unusually suited to being adapted to visual forms, and Russell’s art is perhaps uniquely suited to capturing the bizarre fauna of the in

Post ConQuest

In spite of a brief scare that I might be coming down with something prior to the con, I made it to ConQuest without a hitch.  While there, I got to meet several people, including some folks from KaCSFFS, and I got to have dinner with Ellen Datlow and Rich Horton!  Many thanks to both of them for being so generous with their time to someone they didn’t really know.

Events conspired to make me miss out on some of the con, including all of Sunday (which is too bad, since I hear I missed a good pane

ConQuest

This weekend, I will be attending ConQuest in Kansas City.  Not as a guest or anything, just to gawk and make a nuisance of myself.  If anyone else from the area is going, don’t hesitate to drop me a line.

Prolegomenon

Welcome to my brand new, shiny author website.  I suppose it’s time for me to do that eternally-awkward self-introduction thing.  Most of you who’re likely to be reading this already know who I am, but in case some don’t, I’m Orrin Grey, I’m a writer, and I’m not really dead.  (Or am I?!)

I’ve been having a pretty good year, so far.  THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME, my first chapbook novella, was just published and has been selling like gangbusters (which, I’m told, sell pretty well).   The anthology BOUND

When it Rains...

Since my last post, I've actually placed a couple more stories, one at Innsmouth Free Press and one at All Hallows. The latter makes me especially happy, because it's a market I've always wanted to get into (though this is actually the first time I've ever tried).