Paul Tremblay's Blog, page 31
September 19, 2009
September 14, 2009
First blurb for No Sleep till Wonderland
From the affable, talented, and left coast livin' Mark Haskell Smith.
"Paul Tremblay somehow manages to channel Franz Kafka, write like Raymond
Chandler, and whip up a completely original, utterly whack-a-doodle
reinvention of the detective novel. This book rocks."–Mark Haskell Smith, author of Moist and Salty.
September 9, 2009
No Sleep till Wonderland ARCs live!
Ain't it purdy?
September 4, 2009
Upcoming multi-author appearance and new Weird Tales
–November 20th, I'll be appearing/reading/signing at the Boston Borders with Jeff Vandermeer and David Anthony Durham. David and I, for one day, are joining Jeff on his mad dash across the country in support of Finch and Booklife. Very exciting! More details to follow as the date gets closer.
–Ann Vandermeer (editor of Weird Tales) and Stephen Segal sent me my contributor copies for the new Weird Tales issue with my story, "Headstone in Your Pocket."
The issues also came with a nice thank...
August 30, 2009
Dog in a blanket kind of day
Starring Rascal:
August 25, 2009
No Sleep till Wonderland: da cover
An early peek at the cover of No Sleep till Wonderland (due out in early February of 2010).
As you can see, it has a feel/vibe similar to the cover of The Little Sleep. Sleep for everyone!
Cue the official book description:
Mark Genevich, narcoleptic detective, is caught between friends and a police investigation in this wickedly riveting PI novel with a twist—a follow-up to The Little Sleep
Mark Genevich is stuck in a rut: his narcolepsy isn't improving, his private-detective business is barely s
Best American Fantasy 3 TOC and press release
So very excited that "The Two-Headed Girl" is appearing in this volume.
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR BEST AMERICAN FANTASY: "REAL UNREAL"
Guest Editor Kevin Brockmeier, Series Editor Matthew Cheney
"Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel (One Story, Issue 106)
"Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" by Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
"Cardiology" by Ryan Boudinot (Five Chapters, 2008)
"The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children" by Will Clarke (The Oxford American, Issue 61)
"For a Ruthless Criticism of Everythin
August 24, 2009
Quickie reviews: Oyeyemi, Womack, Granta
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi: A haunted house book mixed with soucouyant myths mixed with class/race wars mixed with paranoia…and the list goes on. The novel left my head spinning in a good way. Told through multiple POVs overlap and contradict, Miranda (who suffers from pica) lives with her twin brother Elliot and father Luc. Their mother Lily died and but Luc refuses to leave Silver House: once owned by Lily, now run as a bed and breakfast, a house that dislikes and ultimately at
August 14, 2009
More Purgatory…with zombies
Another trip to the chasm. Excitement abounds!
All right. Check out the size of this hole. Mary is there for some scale, but the hole looks even smaller, and tighter, in person.
Then zombies came crawling out of the ground.
Didn't get the kid's name, but he and some of his buddies started at a different opening 30 or so feet away, and emerged from there ten minutes later, muddy, scratched up, and saying it wasn't the most difficult cave in the place. I would never, *never*, go into a space tha
August 12, 2009
Livejournal Summer update: Jellies, hate for no sympathy, and more!
–Proof of the creepiness of Jellyfish
–Charles Tan reviews The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
–Have we reached the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" phase yet?
–Baseball nerd back from a weekend in the woods
–Daryl Gregory's The Devil's Alphabet
(Which features the following rant–with a follow up discussion in the comments:
"To finish, a moment of hate: People who say stu
