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The latest sign of my presence on the Web: I did a Things Your Writing Teacher Never Told You column over at Black Gate Magazine for Tina Jens, on the subject of "Plot vs. Character". You can find it here (https://www.blackgate.com/2015/12/13/...). Hopefully helpful! Like everyone else, meanwhile, the rest of my life has descended

Experimental Film: Unleashed Upon the World

So: Experimental Film is finally out, and I really should be cataloguing the response. Therefore, I'll start with the first official review, from Crows 'n' Bones (http://www.crowsnbones.com/2015/11/bo...). I'm very happy with it, to say the least. And Alyx Dellamonica wrote a piece called "Five Fucking Great Things About Experimental Film," here (http://

The Rue Morgue spotlight article and interview with me ab...

The Rue Morgue spotlight article and interview with me about Experimental Film is now available! (http://www.rue-morgue.com/#!Lovecraft...) This makes for a lovely capper to Hallowe'en Week, though the night itself was predictably exhausting. As of Thursday, meanwhile, Steve and I will be travelling down to Saratoga

"Thin Places" and Lovecraft

Stuff has happened, as ever, and I'm slowest to update here, again as ever. Part of that's because I'm three weeks into the Litreactor course and behind on my feedback, after two crazily busy weekends in a row. But the rest is just me being slow, frankly.

First up: my very short horror piece "Thin Places," done for The National Post's Halloween week coverage, is up here (http://

Me Me Meeee

Me shooting my mouth off to Scott Nicolay on The Outer Dark for two freakin' hours plus (http://www.projectiradio.com/gemma-fi...). Wah! Luckily, I come off sounding pretty good, IMHO. Scott's entire series is amazing, so please do check it out.

I'm also starting my Litreactor course again today, so there's that. Plus two

Happy Happy Halloween (Month)

On October 13, I'm going to be interviewed by Scott Nicolay on his horror-centric podcast The Outer Dark, here (http://www.projectiradio.com/shows/th...). Since all interviews thus far have rocked ass, this is very good company to be sharing, and I'm looking forward to it. Otherwise, everything in my life right now is about completing "Red Words," the story I've been haphazardly

Pimp My Fic(Tion)

Added a bunch of new links to the right-hand column, mainly fiction: almost the entire Hammer Pirates series ("Two Captains," "Drawn Up From Dark Places," "The Salt Wedding"), plus both One-Shot Reese stories ("Sown From Salt" at The Harrow plus its podcast version, as part of Tales to Terrify Ep. 6, and "A Feast For Dust" at Beneath Ceaseless Skies and the podcast version of that as well), "One

Greetings from Toronto on a cold, rainy first day back at...

Greetings from Toronto on a cold, rainy first day back at school. Last week--along with such luminaries as Caitlin R. Kiernan and Garth Nix--I talked about my story "This Is Not For You" at SF Signal, as part of a series examining the stories behind the stories in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Vol. 7 (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015...

Good review of Steve Berman's Daughters of Frankenstein: ...

Good review of Steve Berman's Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists! by Brit Mandelo, for Tor.com's Queering SFF. You can read the whole thing here (http://www.tor.com/2015/08/04/queerin...), but I was happy with this section, about my story "Imaginary Beauties: A Lurid Melodrama":

Gemma Files’s [“Imaginary Beauties”] is also a

Wow, okay. That's a llllooooonnngggg fuckin' time between...

Wow, okay. That's a llllooooonnngggg fuckin' time between updates. (And amusingly enough, over a year later, I am still working on "What You See When The Lights Are Out"! Which happens, though I've tried really hard to make it not happen, these last few years.

Perhaps you wonder what is going on with me. Or not. Well, for those who are interested:

1. Experimental Film is finally on its way!