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July 15, 2019
ReaderCon 2019!
I’ve been there before, some three or four times, and it’s always been nothing but a ball, but being a GoH (thanks, Rose Fox!), that was completely different. Not only was my schedule super-super packed:
my lanyard wasn’t actually long enough for my 47-year-old eyes to see this, though . . .But I of course had a handler, a chaperone, Nightwing Whiteshade, who . . . rememberer years and years back, when I used to say I’d wear pirate shirts more if I had mor…
Hey, not Key and Peele, but Peele and Us
My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever get to make Us real, says what feels to me a lot like the seed of that story: the mom being the mom, but also not the mom. I would snip it out, post it here, but that feels . . . not bootleggy, but like …
July 13, 2019
LARB interview
Well, interview at LA Review of Books, but BY Billy J. Stratton:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/writing-in-the-shadow-of-v-adventures-in-speculative-fiction-with-stephen-graham-jones/…
July 11, 2019
Another Tor.com Novella!
Title . . . . Night of the Mannequins. Slasher through and through.
Announcing Night of the Mannequins, a New Horror Novella from Stephen Graham Jones
couple slasher paragraphs from me there
For a long time I’ve been wondering what’s left to do in slasherland, what territory hasn’t already been gone over fifty times, and better than I could ever do it. Night of the Mannequins is in what feels like that unexplored space. Couldn’t be more excited, both …
July 9, 2019
Jaws forever
Jaws – Teaser Trailer (1975) pic.twitter.com/QjTIcsskj4
— Horror Ads
Coolest Bookmark Ever?
Yep:
Starting today! I’m reading the three adult horror books from the #summerscares reading list, and MONGRELS by @SGJ72 is up first!
Gorgeous
Best Reads from Lately
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway:
“Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)““Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share““It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves““Why narrating an audiobook is a LOT harder than you think““Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans to Joi…
July 8, 2019
Good one
TED talk. Been around forever, but I’m just now catching it somehow:
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July 3, 2019
Clarion 2019 & Seattle (also 2019)
Always great, being in Seattle, wearing a Batman shirt, being at the University Bookstore, having fun at the mic with seventy or eighty readers and writers. Thanks to all these cool folk for snapping pics, posting them up:
“It’s bad, but you lived” — Happy I got to catch @SGJ72 read at @ubookstoresea! pic.twitter.com/gxJEwJaxGC
— Abolish Prisons (@lauramdevos) July 3, 2019
…@SGJ72 reads at the University Bookstore. “I write because I know the truth—not to say it but be
July 1, 2019
The Shortlist
Honored to have “Raphael,” my first published horror story, included in Paul Tremblay’s list of five horror stories:
https://www.shortlist.com/lists/best-horror-short-stories-400388And, if you maybe like his selections, then you might just also like his collection Growing Things, out tomorrow / July 2nd:
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