Lawrence C. Connolly's Blog, page 29
July 12, 2018
Don’t sleep: Nightmares are coming!
Montreal is gearing up for the event that Quentin Tarantino has called “The most important and prestigious genre film festival on this continent” – The Fantasia Film Festival.
It’s a fitting venue for the premiere of a project that producer began working on nearly a decade ago.
That’s a long time to be … [more at The 21st-Century Scop].
Don’t sleep: Nightmares are coming!
Montreal is gearing up for the event that Quentin Tarantino has called “The most important and prestigious genre film festival on this continent” – The Fantasia Film Festival.
It’s a fitting venue for the premiere of a project that producer Nevertheless, and I have that record beat. It was 2001 when I first traveled to London to meet with David and his collaborator
July 3, 2018
Hearing Voices: Recorded Live at Fantastic Fiction @ KGB
The audio from my June 20 KGB appearance with Mary Robinette Kowal is available now. It features the stories “Aberrations,” “Step on a Crack,” and “Prime Time!” (all from the collection Visions: Short Fantasy & SF) and an excerpt from “Siren” (the bonus story from new digital edition of Voices: Tales of Horror).
For her part, Mary Robinette Kowel reads a segment of the novel The Fated Sky that will leave you eager to check out the rest of the book as well as its companion novel The Calculati...
July 2, 2018
Welcome to My Nightmares:A Video Essay on Cinematic Monsters
You’ve heard of man-made monsters. Today, let’s consider a video essay about a monster-made man … or at least a monster-made writer. Namely: the 21st-Century Scop.
Here’s the backstory: Last year I was invited to take part in a speaker series sponsored by the Uniontown Library. Helmed in part by author Heidi Ruby Miller (who also organized the successful Pennsylvania Literary Festival), the program included a series of promotional videos in which authors … [more at The 21st=Century Scop].
June 26, 2018
It’s Official:Voices now in eBook from Fantasist Ent.
I’m back home, settling in after KGB and SHU. I wrote my posts on those events more quickly than usual, but they seem to be lucid (to me at least).
Both book-related appearances offered an opportunity to get the word out about Fantasist Enterprises’ new edition of Voices: Tales of Horror, and I’m pleased to report that the digital edition is now available as an eBook bundle (Mobi, ePub, and PDF) direct from the Fantasist website, and as a Kindle edition from Amazon.
The same edition will be a...
June 25, 2018
Genre is a State of Mind:Books and Authors @ In Your Write Mind
The genre stars came out on Saturday night for the latest installment of the In Your Write Mind book event – a massive gathering of science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, romance, and YA writers that’s held each June at Seton Hill University.
This was my first time back at IYWM in four years. June is always such a busy month. But this year provided a chance to swing through Greensburg on my return from Fantastic Fiction at KGB … [read more at The 21st-Century Scop].
Genra is a State of Mind:Books and Authors @ In Your Write Mind
The genre stars came out on Saturday night for the latest installment of the In Your Write Mind book event – a massive gathering of science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, romance, and YA writers that’s held each June at Seton Hill University.
This was my first time back at IYWM in four years. June is always such a busy month. But this year provided a chance to swing through Greensburg on my return from Fantastic Fiction at KGB … [read more at The 21st-Century Scop].
Genra is a State of Mind:Books and Authors @ In Your Write Mind
The genre stars came out on Saturday night for the latest installment of the In Your Write Mind book event – a massive gathering of science fiction, horror, fantasy, mystery, romance, and YA writers that’s held each June at Seton Hill University.
This was my first time back at IYWM in four years. June is always such a busy month. But this year provided a chance to swing through Greensburg on my return from Fantastic Fiction at KGB … and I’m glad I did.
Held in Seton Hill’s new Performing Art...
June 24, 2018
Gone Scopping:Keeping the Oral Tradition Alive @ KGB
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time reading screens. When it comes to accessibility, the digital format is hard to beat. But is it the best format for sharing stories?
I recall an article at CNN.com in which a writer lamented the loss of print: “I miss the edges – physical and psychological. I miss the start of reading a print magazine, but mostly, I miss the finish. I miss the satisfaction of putting the bundle down, knowing I have… [read more at The 21st-Century Scop].
June 17, 2018
Voices: Tales of HorrorNew Edition Preview @ Fantastic Fiction
The good people at Fantasist Enterprises are preparing a couple special editions of Voices: Tales of Horror for release this summer, starting with the book’s first-ever digital edition and following it with a second print edition.
Both will feature a new foreword by Mick Garris (Showtime’s Masters of Horror and the upcoming Nightmare Cinema) and a bonus section featuring an additional story that originally appeared as “Human Caverns” in Fear the Abyss (Post-Mortem Press 2013).
Rewritten for...
