Paul Michael Anderson's Blog: The Dumping Ground, Part Deux, page 3

The “I Love Everything about This Goddamned Book” Post: Husk, by Rachel Autumn Deering

Hi there.

At the start of this year, I took on the Goodreads Reading Challenge, putting an insane amount of books I quite simply don’t have time to read if I intend to work, write, parent, husband, eat, or sleep at some point this year.  Still, I’ve kept to it because, fuck, why the hell not?  Some books are better than others.  Some I don’t finish because they’re fucking awful.  Some are fucking great.  And some I absolutely loved. 

Here’s one of those books.

[image error]

I don’t have the blurbin’ pow...

I’m Here to Attack Your Eyes and Ears

Two brief things of note, gang:

One.

[image error]

The annual Halloween special of The Wicked Library podcast debuted this week; for it, host Dan Foytik brought back show creator Nelson W. Pyles to resurrect and reproduce a few “lost” stories from the show’s first season, including a production of my story “Love Song for the Rejected.”

Entirely recreated with noted voice actors Mike DelGaudio and Addison Peacock, with music by Nico Vettese, I am absolutely in fucking love with this.  Not just because, hey...

Help Michael Bailey & his family recover from the California wildfires (a signal boost)

 

[image error]

The family.

Hey all.

On October 9th, Michael Bailey and his family had seven minutes to evacuate their homes in order to escape the wildfires that are still, as of this writing, rampaging merry hell through California.

Jumping on top of this, novelist Brian Keene set up a GoFundMe for the Baileys because, flat out, they lost everything.  It is all gone and the pictures/video Michael has posted show the extent of the devastation.  Seen pictures of Dresden post-bombing?  Like that.

Brian put...

Honestly, I’m terrified of open water*

*I was going to title this post “My new stories are underwater”, but in light of the devastation in Texas…yeah, not going there.  It wasn’t like the various editors planned on releasing work that I happened to be in, that happened to involve water, around Mother Nature, but…yeah.

Some new story news because I like sharing things with my name in it. Also, who doesn’t like new stuff to read?

First up – Fearful Fathoms: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror (Vol. 1 – Seas & Oceans) – Scarlet Galleon...

The Summer Exile in the Goodreads Wastelands

What does Paul Michael Anderson do when he’s avoiding his actual writing work (“avoiding” in the sense of I have a metric fuck-tonne of dayjob shit to do)?  Updates his reviews on his website because of course he does. 

So, at the beginning of the year, I decided I wanted to both track my reading and read more since it seemed, last year, I hadn’t been reading as much as I had in the past.  I set up a Goodreads Reading Challenge–in which I set a high number and am hysterically behind–and got...

Gettin’ on the Coveted Cover

So Hildy Silverman, publisher and editor-in-chief, of Space & Time magazine, recently revealed the cover for issue #129 on Space & Time‘s Facebook page:

[image error]

Oh, it’s nice to have top billing.  I mean, it could totally be ordered alphabetically–check the last names–but, damn, that doesn’t even matter to me.  The cover–done by Thomas Nackid–is beautiful and I’ve wanted to be in Space & Time for years; their fiction editor, Gerard Houarner, is a friend who, in the past, has helped me with stories i...

Scares That Care 4: A Report of Awesomeness

[image error]

So, last week, I attended Scares That Care 4, a charity event–to use Brian Keene’s term for it, since it’s a fitting one–down in Williamsburg, Virginia.  It’s taken me a week to write this, not only because I have a kid and about a million other things to handle on a day-to-day basis, but also to…kinda lose my glow about the whole thing, I guess?

It’s been five years since I attended a con and, while the last con was fun–if nothing else, I have an awesome Gary Braunbeck story to tell from it...

Unnerving Interview series #1: Paul Michael Anderson (me!)

 

[image error]

Eddie Generous, the editor of Unnerving Magazine, and I sit and talk about stories–“The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)”, “All That You Leave Behind”, etc.–and Bones Are Made to be Broken–beta-reading, LampLight, and why having to market yourself might drive you to drink.

I continue to hate the sound of my voice. I also, oddly, like giving interviews.

You can listen to the interview here.

You can pick up the new issue of Unnerving (which has a new story by me–“...

The Grim Reader takes a look at UNNERVING #3 (and, oddly enough, “The One Thing I Wished for You”)

[image error]

So Adrian Shotbolt–a.k.a. The Grim Reader, a.k.a. Beavis the Bookhead, a.k.a. My Aussie Teacher Acquaintance–posted a review of Unnerving #3, which opens with my long-ish story “The One Thing I Wished for You”.  A quick snippet:

“Opening with a fantastic story by Paul Michael Anderson in which he asks: How far will a father go to relieve his daughter from any future pain, both physical and mental? Anderson writes heartfelt dark fiction so well and this story is brilliant and emotional…”

Not...

“The One Thing I Wished for You” Out Now in Unnerving #3

[image error]

The third issue of Unnerving Magazine is out and, oh, would you look at that?  I’m in it.  The editor, Eddie Generous, e-mailed me earlier this year and asked if I had anything.  I didn’t, not then–I was working on a solicited piece for something else, then collaborating on another sorta-semi solicited piece–but I had a nugget of an idea, based around two images:

A new father crying on a bench outside of a quiet hospital entrance Forearms cris-crossed with little scars

I played with the id...