Laird Barron's Blog, page 30
October 2, 2014
On Writing: More about Agents
It has been said before and it has been demonstrated by plenty of writers–you can go it on your own. But depending on where you are in your career and what you hope to achieve, smart money says get an agent. You need a good one, you need the right one, but you need one. You also need to understand what it is an does. Not what you assume she does, but the reality.
Here’s mine talking about a few of her tasks.
September 30, 2014
Heading into October Country
A few items to relay:
*Ellen Datlow’s Nightmare Carnival is out next week. Stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Jeffrey Ford, Livia Llewellyn and others. My latest Jessica Mace tale is in there– “Screaming Elk, MT.”
Image courtesy Amazon.com
*Also hitting the shelves next week is Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume One. Currently available as an ebook…
*I’ve written an introduction for the Penguin Classics line. More on that soon.
*Marina Hume interviewed me the other day for Good Reads Mad reads
*Paul St. John Mackintosh reviews The Imago Sequence for Teleread
*In other news, today is release day for the latest Stephen Graham Jones collection, After the People Lights Have Gone Off
image courtesy Amazon.com
*Nick Kaufmann’s newest book also arrives today: Die and Stay Dead
September 29, 2014
Oct 1 Reading at Word
I’ll be in Brooklyn for an evening of readings with Nick Kaufmann and L.A. Kornetsky on October 1st, 7pm. There will be a signing afterward, so come in and stick around. Thank you to Word for hosting this event.
September 24, 2014
Crows N’ Bones & Old Leech
Crows N’ Bones have published a major review of The Children of Old Leech. Quoting Dimitris Kontogiannis, “I mean we‘ve been Laird’s fans for some years now, but Crows ‘n’ Bones is just a sleazy sex, horror & rock ‘n’ roll webzine.”
In other words, my people.
image courtesy Crows N’ Bones
September 22, 2014
Happy Birthday, Brian Keene
Today is the inestimable Brian Keene’s birthday. I am looking forward to his in progress novel The Lost Level. His author site entries are among the best in the industry. Brian has been in the trenches for a long time and he calls them like he sees them.
September 18, 2014
We Are For the Weird
Two excellent reviews of Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1:
Mike Kelly is doing important work with this series–please consider picking up a copy.
image courtesy Weird Fiction Review; illustration by Santiago Caruso
September 11, 2014
Listen to This: Fantastic Fiction
The Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series is now out in audio. I don’t know if older events will be made available. For now it goes back to this May when Paul Tremblay and I were in town.
September 8, 2014
Read This: The Old Pageant by Richard Gavin
The Weird Fiction Review is running “The Old Pageant” by Richard Gavin. This is a sample from the Lockhart & Steele anthology, The Children of Old Leech, out now.
September 3, 2014
Read This: After the People Lights Have Gone Off
Stephen Graham Jones is a hell of a writer; a heavyweight in the horror/dark fantasy ranks. If you haven’t run across him before, all I can say is that he’s an excellent stylist, on par with Brian Evenson, Aimee Bender, and Dan Chaon, but with a real love for pulp fantasy. Jones can be a heavy read–he tackles the darkest of the dark, but without undue navel-gazing. An SGJ tale is always one with a powerful undercurrent. His latest collection, After the People Lights Have Gone Off, is due out any minute.
image via Dark House Press
August 29, 2014
More Darkerer
My novelette “More Dark” will be reprinted in an anthology called True Detective from Errata Naturae. Arriving late September, 2014. Contains stories and articles by Lovecraft, Bierce, Ligotti, and others.
“More Dark” is available at Revelator, free of charge.
Image via Errata Naturae
