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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXIII

I know, I know: been a while since one of these, yes? Thus this one being a long scroll. But, I mean, I’ve been writing a novel, and being in California for ten days, and being some other places too. I seem to vaguely recall an injury as well. Anyway, none of that matters, because here we are again, with people posting cool pics of the yellow book, proving once again and for always that werewolves are real and in the world—and? They have been for something like twenty-two previous issues of this particular digest: 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 And let’s hit the ground snuggled between F. Paul Wilson (I was on a panel with him once somewhere) and Brian Keene (we judged the Bizarro Gross-Out Contest together one year), with a lot more good friends/solid writers in this stack: Ah, thank you, Betty. Werewolves are meant to circulate: For the longest time (well, not like an ENDURING mystery, but a kind of fuddled bemusement for twenty seconds) I couldn’t figure how vivastory had snapped this pic. Then I realized: it’s a screencap of an image search. Cool. So I did again, here. Thanks for the tip: Yeah, this is one of the places I was: Tennessee, the plane landing through the smoke of arson-fires. But? Trees burning smells like trees burning, pretty much. I can’t get ‘arson’ from a whiff, anyway.  . . . → → →

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Mongrels Best of the Year Listings

The yellow book’s padded onto a few cool year-end lists, looks like. I’ll update this, should any more turn up. And, thank you thank you to everyone, for believing in werewolves. Me too. Tor’s 16 Best Books of 2016 (so far)  |  BookRiot’s 100 Monster Books  |  25 Summer Books  |  Bustle’s 12 Summer Reads  |   Shotgun Logic Top 5 (so far)  |  Best Books of 2016  |   Another Best of 2016  |  BookRiot’s Modern Monsters  |  Jason Sanford  |  HorrorMaiden  |  Dumbbells & Dragons’ Best of 2016  |  Tor.com’s Reviewers’ Choices 2016  |  LitReactor Staff Picks 2016 (part 1)  |  LitReactor Staff Picks (part 2)  |  Emerging Writers Network  |  B&N Best Horror of 2016

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Best of 2016

Best movie’s a hard call, especially as I’ve yet to see The Eyes of My Mother or Nocturnal Animals or Moana or Kubo and the Two Strings. Also? I doubt I’ve seen just all that many of the award-contenders either. But I did luck into a few good theaters/iTunes rentals/Netflixes: Television of course is the one the whole world loved, then the usual (superhero) suspects, then a couple that should surprise no one, then a Netflix stumbleupon that was amazing, and one kind of outlier at the very end, which I so loved that only a video clip will actually do: So cannot wait to watch #GreaseLive again. Completely blew me away. Too? I should add that I don’t have cable, so can’t dial up Mr. Roboto, Westworld, all those. Also? I can’t figure out how to even get network, so I don’t get to watch basketball either. The upside of that, of course, is that I write novels. Oh, and Negan: yes. More like him, please. He’s the Stefano DiMera of The Walking Dead. Which I guess kind of makes him the Axl of The Walking Dead. And without Axl, the band doesn’t even exist, right? You hear all kinds of story advice from all quarters, but one of the suggestions that’s practically become a rule—for good reason—is: build your bad guy seriously bad. It keeps things popping. However, Negan’s not my favorite character from TV this year. That goes to Adrian Pimento, of Brooklyn 99: [ that’s an animated gif, but it’s a half-stubborn one. you  . . . → → →

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Sometimes a Cool Thing Happens

and it’s shaped like a book, one I’d never have guessed could be real. Thanks so much to Billy J. Stratton and all the contributors. Honored. Amazing. So cool. Clickable here.

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Demon Theory gif

( for those with the eyes to see . . . )

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Happiness is :

Over the many years since I got online, these are the six absolute best things I’ve found. When I need to be happy and don’t have a slurpee, I just click here, and all’s well:

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So, I’m Kind of Still and Always Head Over Heels for Scream

A Letter from SCREAM’s Maureen Prescott to Her Daughter Sidney

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My Hero

What do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he could draw a superhero good enough, you’d give him the perfect words to say. And then it didn’t just happen, there’s even action figures now. Your comic book is on every shelf. And you live beside your best friend again. Your kids even play together, with those action figures. Watch them on the lawn, there. Take a snapshot, and then look over their heads, over the tops of the houses, past the city, past the world itself. Look at all the stars, at all the adventures waiting out there. What do you do when all your dreams come true? You close your eyes, so the dream can last. You close your eyes and you roll your hands into fists, and you try to hold on. Illustrated by Aaron Lovett. Which is to say: it’s a comic book. Letters by Sean Sapp, Kathryn S. Renta and Joshua Viola Summer 2017 Hex Publishers

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Indigenous Comic Con #1!

With no variant covers! What you saw was what you got: [ wish I knew who drew this like it was nothing, when, actually, it’s everything ] You know George RR Martin tells that story of having the first ticket to the first comic con? That’s how getting to be a guest here feels to me: like a new, excellent thing is happening. So many cool people—creators, readers, fans, cosplayers, 1491s, friends, food trucks, movies, green chile every other breath—and so many excellent books to be buying: And somehow I forgot to put Jay Odjick in that array. Let me fix that here: And I think I have a couple more scattered around the house, in the usual reading places. Probably with melty ice tea sitting on them, as I never take as good care of comics as comics has taken care of me, all these years. Was cool being on a panel with Elizabeth LaPensee, too. Last time we were in front of people talking it was . . . for Al Jazeera TV, I think. And thanks to the Twitter people who thought to post these pics (Cassandra, Oxlabs). And I may be wearing a Denver Comic Con shirt there. And a necklace I bought for two dollars in the women’s part of the Goodwill. Also, one of those books up there, it’s Elizabeth’s. While I’m stealing pics, too, let me nab one from Sterling HolyWhiteMountain: That conventional hall floor? Every table with more amazing merch than the last table? Every person I brush shoulders  . . . → → →

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James Welch

is still James Welch, but now he’s also a Google Doodle. So, so cool, the whole searching world seeing a Blackfeet face when a new tab opens. I vote we keep this one for a while:

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