Gemma Files's Blog, page 2

New Year, New Post

First post of 2017! I was going to keep off the Internet today for fear of sending clicks that guy (I think we all know the guy I mean)'s way, but just wanted to link to Bob Pastorella's kind profile of me/review of Experimental Film, here: http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/explori... A very nice way to start the day indeed.

Murray Leeder at Luma Quarterly asks me some interesting ...

Murray Leeder at Luma Quarterly asks me some interesting questions here (http://lumaquarterly.com/issues/volum...). I also found this while surfing around randomly on YouTube, which is so weird, seriously.;) 

Two more podcast links: The Writer and the Critic dissect...

Two more podcast links: The Writer and the Critic dissect Experimental Film here (http://writerandcritic.podbean.com/e/...), while I talk with the Unreliable Narrators here (http://unreliablenarrators.net/2016/1...). As ever, the interview was a lot of fun, though we had a bit of technical difficulty here and there. I

Me with Alex Dolan on Blog Tour Radio's Thrillseekers Podcast

Sunburst Award

So...Experimental Film won the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel. Link here: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/09/gemma...

This has basically been a really, really good year.

StoryBundle Tie-In Interview: Kenneth Mark Hoover

Kenneth Mark Hoover is the author of Haxan, another book available in the same Weird Western StoryBundle as my own A Book of Tongues. Last night he published an interview with me, here (http://kennethmarkhoover.me/2016/09/0...), so I'm returning the favour. Mark's a gentleman and a brilliant writer, someone whose investment in the genre is both deep

Weird Western StoryBundle

Here's the skinny:


THE WEIRD WESTERN BUNDLE



The Weird Western Bundle - Curated by Blair MacGregor



Welcome to our Weird Western Bundle, where wide frontiers, flintlocks, whiskey and revenge meet swords, airships, terraforming, magic, myths, and dragons. You'll find stories here set in the snows of old Alaska and the heat of contemporary Arizona, post-Civil War San Francisco and

Ploughshares Article on Experimental Film

This summer is digesting my brain, bur if I haven't linked to this article about Experimental Film in Ploughshares (http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/eve...) before, I really should've. It's quite brilliant.

Locus Review Now Up

I added a direct link to John Langan's flattering Locus review of Experimental Film, which they've now put up on the Web, possibly because of me winning the SJA. You'll find it in the side column, or here: http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2016/...

Litreactor

By the way, this is also the third year in a row that I've been asked to teach my course about writing what you fear--still cunningly entitled Write What You Fear--at Litreactor. It starts October 18, 2016, so if you've got the money and you're interested in getting feedback from me, please do sign up. The deets are here (https://litreactor.com/classes/write-...).