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Readercon Schedule

Since the cool kids are posting theirs...

Friday july 11

11:00 AM CR Teaching the Ghost Story: A Seminar for Instructors. Erik Amundsen, Michael Dirda, Gemma Files, Jack Haringa, Glen Hirshberg (leader). This presentation and conversation will help help instructors inspire fresh, compelling new work in the ghost story genre. Longtime writing teacher Glen Hirshberg will go over essential

We Will All Go Down Together: An Alphabet (Part One)

Hey, all. As We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven slouches towards publication on August 19th, I've decided to preface it with a bunch of new posts, another alphabetized compendium of themes and characters from the book. Here's the first one, right at the end of June:



A is for All Of Them Witches



The phrase in question references
Rosemary's Baby—it's what the first

2014: Let's Try That Again

Hello, everybody--Gemma Files here. Since I've spectacularly failed to keep up my problog (this one) for the second year in a row, let's call third time a charm. Music At Midnight is once more open for business! So let's have all the news:

As of December, 2013, the entire Hexslinger Series has been collected and republished in an Omnibus Edition that's currently available from ChiZine

After a Moment of Panic...

...in which I thought my entire blog had disappeared, an am very happy to discover I'm wrong on that, it occurred to me that I haven't actually written anything in here for months. Here, therefore, is the 411:

I'm still working hard on wrapping up We Will All Go Down Together, hopefully for early December. Short story short--my kid got sick, I got sick, I'm STILL sick, it's a nightmare. But I'm

So Now It Can Be Told: We Will All Go Down Together Edition

So...as we all know, I've been having a hell of a time with Experimental Film, and while I think I'm in a far better place than I was, some strategic decisions needed to be made about my ostensible October, 2013 deadline. I wasn't sure if I could talk about this yet, but as of last night I've been given the go-ahead, and here's how it's going to be:Instead of delivering Experimental Film for

Hey, all--Well, it's a whole 'nother year...five months...

Hey, all--

Well, it's a whole 'nother year...five months into one, in point of fact...and I've really let things go around here. A large part of that has to do with working on Experimental Film, which is frankly kicking my ass hard (as it should, I guess), but there are other factors at work as well: personal health issues, stress, fatigue, my son's ASD, etc. So I thought I would drop in with a

The Next Big Thing

Having been tapped to do this meme by both James Cooper (http://www.jamescooperfiction.co.uk/t...) and Jonathan Oliver, I've decided to lead with it today, hoping it'll break me through that self-organizational wall I've been wrestling with. So:



What is the working title of your next book?



Experimental Film: A Novel. It's supposed to be my first full-length stand-alone,

Let's Get It Started

“I
need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I
couldn’t exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels
are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.” 


—Caitlin
R. Kiernan.




This is
a pretty good quote to frame most things, IMNSHO, but definitely to
frame my most recent piece of news: I finally have an official
deadline for the first draft of

Readercon!

Leaving today, back on Sunday. Hope to see some of you there. If not, have fun.;)

Been A Long Time, Been A Lonely Lonely Time

Okay! So: A Tree of Bones has been officially out for over a month, prompting an interview in Rue Morgue and a good review in Publisher's Weekly, as well as two very nice reviews on Goodreads, though one seems impossible to find anymore. I'm also finally at the end of my short story/anthology-fill duties for this year, all of which have been accepted by their various venues. That's seven separate