Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 195

Pumpjacks

Man, West Texas on The Simpsons, after, what? Thirty years? Worth the wait:

grew up riding these. somehow kept all my legs

Now I just need to composite this ancient-old “Simpsons yourself” trick into that pasture and it’ll be like I’m a real guest star:

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BookFreezer

My name is Stephen Graham Jones, and I support this kind of bookwolf stuff:

The Books in the Freezer Book Club is kicking off next month with @SGJ72 coming-of-age werewolf story, Mongrels! Join in on the fun. Listen to our new episode to find out how:https://t.co/LNsc0u1BSM pic.twitter.com/49DgbAyxKY

— Books In The Freezer Podcast (@BooksFreezerpod) January 8, 2019

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Making a list and checking it twice

I assume: Cedar Hollow’s year-end best-of. Honored to have a certain yellow book included:

https://www.cedarhollowhorrorreviews.com/2019/01/favorite-novels-and-novellas-2018.html …

Chuckywolf

Just wanted to say that, really. But, to be more precise: excellent stack of books to be in:

These are my top five favorite books I read in 2018. @huntershea1 @CVHunt @RobertMcCammon @KatheKoja @SGJ72 pic.twitter.com/Fci6sP9AMT

— Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews (@freeman_ac) January 6, 2019

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Turkish Mongrels

Hey, very cool:

@SGJ72’s Mongrel Turkish translation chosen as one of the Top 50 Novels of 2018 by online bookseller Idefix https://t.co/v3SUuBRjWk

Hello, I’m a _____

Finally, a text-driven meme. So cool:

Hello, I'm a professor in a movie, I only reach the main point of my lecture right as class is ending. Then I yell at students about the reading / homework as they leave.

— Rory Turnbull (@_roryturnbull) January 1, 2019

it goes and goes and goes . . .…

Best Articles from . . . Lately

Decided to do this as a list this time, instead of letting some of them auto-embed—felt messy, having both kinds of links/previews. So, here’s the best of what I’ve been reading lately:

“Crackdown on sexist ads outlaws bad female driver and inept dad commercials““Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook““What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary““How Horror Change…

When in Vegas…

still be thinking about your loved ones:

Ok I just experienced the nicest exchange with a stranger and think it’ll help to share: I was playing on the Mariah Carey slots in Vegas (naturally) and a friendly circa-mid-40s ish guy sat down to play on the machine next to me

— jack remmington (@jackremmington) January 2, 2019

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Thanks, Cedar Hollow

click here for the full write-up …

Best of 2018

Which is going to be a movie/TV-heavy list, for the first time ever. Not because my tastes or habits changed—fiction on the page is still and always where it’s at for me—but because, since I’m now judging for the World Fantasy Awards for 2018, it would feel a bit . . . weird and unclassy, I guess, to be saying what my favorite books of the year are.

However, I can slap a couple of novels up here that in no way could get submitted for a World Fantasy Award. So:

Novels

Lair…