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Andrew’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Immortalists
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Candescent Blooms
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Human Maps
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Hiroshima Was Another Word For Love Then
My short story titled "Hiroshima Was Another Word For Love Then" was recently published in Remains #3 and as usual I'm blogging a few words discussing how the story came to be written. There may be spoilers within.
"Hiroshima Was Another Word For Love Then" is one of twelve recently written stories which take French New Wave cinema as a starting point and then run with an alternative version of it.
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"A novel of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil. Also what God is or is not. Reminiscent of Corman’s take on the Masque of the Red Death in parts. Physical and earthy, but also searching for the spirit. A horror novel from the 21st century’s plague ye"
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Disclaimer: My short story, "An Absence Of Ghosts", appears in this anthology. I had great fun with this book. All of the stories fairly buzzed along and were very readable. I particularly liked the novella, "The Frog And The Scorpion", by Patrick Whi ...more |
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ENC PRESS is the intelligent alternative to traditional publishing: a small but completely independent boutique press whose specialty is social satire ...more
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Small Press Publisher who is also a bit small himself.
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Virtual book club for ScienceOnline, an initiative created by Bora Zivcovik and Anton Zuiker. Group will be fairly freeform, allowing members to discu ...more
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