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March 21, 2017
Mapping the Interior: the advance copies
Mapping the Interior is sneaking out into the world:
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March 18, 2017
SGJ Bio & Author Photos
So, if you need a bio from me, here’s the basic one, which I’ll try to keep updated. Can’t seem to get the titles to go properly italics, but surely you can fix that: Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels and six story collections. Most recent is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from …
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March 7, 2017
All the Pretty Hominids
Back when The Fast Red Road wasn’t called that—this is late 1997, early 1998—the way I intended to write it was as a series of long answering machine messages left in this one guy’s trailer while he’s off gallivanting around with a carnival or something (he’s got pet jackals—this is the kind cool stuff you think of, first novel out, that you then don’t get to use until, say, you write a novel about a bunnyheaded zombie coyote/smuggler/father). The guy on the answering machine was supposed to be this guy named Golius, a thinly-veiled Vizenor character, monologging on and on about, you guessed it: hominids. Each message was going to be a different theory about why our primate selves finally stood up. And these messages were going to matter so, so much to Golius, like, they’re the tether just barely keeping him attached to the surface of the planet. They’re not so important to the guy listening. To the guy standing there deleting them. Fast-forward twenty years and twenty-plus books, and I’m finally starting to publish about hominids, some. I can’t remember all-what I’ve written and done, of course—I may very well have done other hominid/Neanderthal/etc stuff—but I’ve got a couple of them out in 2017 so far, anyway. The first is in a journal that was always one of my targets in grad school, one of my dream places, my somedays. Denver Quarterly. Story’s not online, and it would be kind of rude for me to scan it in—it’s only three pages—but, here’s the first . . . → → →
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March 5, 2017
March 2, 2017
Desks
Years back, somewhere around 1997, I’d guess, I asked Janet Burroway, my dissertation director, for her advice on embarking on this whole writing thing. Janet’s answer was pretty much exactly this, from King—don’t wall yourself off from your family in order to write. Rather, write in the middle of them all. [ original page/image is here ] Over the years, I’ve gotten a lot of great advice, but none’s finally been as important as what Janet Burroway told me twenty years ago. It’s not about lining a shelf, it’s about building a life. Here’s some random snap of my desk in the corner, roundabout 2001, 2002. What you can’t see is that this is also my wife and my’s bedroom—I could roll two feet to my right and be up against the bed, which was on cinderblocks. Our curtains were cardboard I’d cut and taped over the glass. Our kids were babies. It was the best of times, it was the best of times. I’ve got my favorite rejections taped up on the shelf beside me, and I’ve got my wife’s picture there for when she’s not. Even one of her old driver’s licenses, looks like. And my son had drawn in marker all over my keyboard. My desk is still in a corner these days, albeit a corner in my study. But I try to remember Janet’s advice, and never close the door.
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February 23, 2017
Bram Stoker Awards
So honored to have Mongrels on the final ballot along with so many excellent writers, so many good books: Superior Achievement in a Novel Hand, Elizabeth – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel (Minotaur Books) Jones, Stephen Graham – Mongrels (William Morrow) Langan, John – The Fisherman (Word Horde) MacLeod, Bracken – Stranded: A Novel (Tor Books) Tremblay, Paul – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock (William Morrow)
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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
All courtesy of Kyle Mares and Orrin Grey:
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February 20, 2017
Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXV
Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . I plan on never getting tired of using that transition. Anyway, before getting to all the many and perfect and wonderful pics and words about the yellow book, here’s all-what came before: click to get the dropdown one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four This bounced to me through one of my brothers, who has a friend, who—get this—goes to Milwaukee sometimes, and sees cool stuff like: While other friends of (my) friends are often cruising the Union Square B&N: And, Cutter’s new one is high, high, HIGH on my must-read list. I so dug The Troop and The Deep (and am so happy he’s not following the Bentley Little titling dictum): Yes yes yes! I mean, my goal, most books, it’s to disturb a person’s sleep. But not this time around: Proud to be on Paul’s shelves. And, as you can see, the discussion deteriorated quite quickly. Nay, immediately: Yes. Yes yes yes (about Near Dark, I mean): Also? Let’s do them tomorrow, and forevermore: I guess this is a one-word title, yeah. Wonder how many of those I’ve done. My guess? Not many. And this is me, at BookBar, snapping a pic, trying to get all the glare I can: A more steady pic from BookBar: Too? I figure Laird’s . . . → → →
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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXIV
Wow. Haven’t done this for a couple weeks now, I guess, meaning? I have WAY too many of these for a mere & measly (does that word come from “measley,” as in, ‘one who has the measles?’) single post. So I’ve tried to eyeball what might be the middle-ish, and snipped it off, pushed it forward to what’s going to be part 25, if numbers and sequence and progression don’t fall apart between now and then. Which is completely possible. Could be some, um, person is signing an executive order regarding that right now, even . . . First, though, the wayback machine, to see what-all’s happened before: click to get the dropdown one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four And here we go, starting off with two from the same cool reader: Thank you, Joe: This is actually ten stories I think kind of can serve as a foundation for the horror story, but maybe they’re each as deep as a single book: And here’s that tpb happening: Such a cool title. I need to be jumping on this grey book as well: Hey, that’s New York Public Library, I figure. Very cool: I so so so need to be reading Nick’s book: First ever—thank you: One of the cooler bookstores to be in: And here’s a grainy zoom-in of that tag under . . . → → →
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