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Mongrels tpb

Got me an early copy. Same bat-cover, same bat-words—but more of them: an essay-thing at the end, and a reader’s guide as well. And, I don’t have a scale this fine, but this book is light, man. Don’t tie your balloon to it and set on the bench beside you at the park, because the next time you look over, it’s gone. Anyway, official drop date is the 24th, here—no, I don’t know for sure when books started ‘dropping’ like albums—but this is what it looks like:  

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Mapping the Interior

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you’d rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost. Out from Tor June 20th: iBooks Kindle Nook Macmillan   Stephen Graham Jones’s chilling Mapping the Interior is like a twisted YA tale for adults, part S.E. Hinton and part Shirley Jackson. It’s about being young and broke, and that moment when you first wonder who your parents really are. The answers are out there, but they will leave you haunted forever —Richard Kadrey   Stephen Graham Jones’s Mapping the Interior is a triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant. You will not be unmoved. You will not be unaffected. It’s a ghost story in the truest, darkest, most melancholy sense. Stephen knows we are haunted by our parents, our families, and our shared pasts as much as we are haunted by ourselves; haunted by who were were, who we become, and who  . . . → → →

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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XXIII

To be filed under Things That Floor Me: that I’m still doing this, seven months later. I mean, that Mongrels is still getting passed around online like this. And? The trade’s out in . . . seventeen days now, I guess. With some cool post-scripty stuff at the end: essay/note _ reading guide fun. Anyway, before getting to the pass-arounds, there’s all the pass-arounds that 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 I propose that “eviler” is a completely real word: Good to be in a stack with Josh, Paul, David, and Chloe—of them, Chloe is the only one I don’t know: Even still got the Santa-receipt in it. Cool, thanks: These books just killed a zebra:   And: first sighting of the trade out in the wilds. Of Australia:   Though, I should say: I’d be happy being the jester, too.   Always happy to be friggin: Little-known hardly secret probably not just super interesting fact: at the Locus Awards, Nic and me got to sign at adjacent tables.   Another reminder that I need to dial this audiobook up . . .  Love this handle: “Books, Wine, Repeat.”   I know, I know, I need to listen. Someday, someday:   Wow, so cool. Thanks: I did actually kind of halfway think of a new chapter that could-have-been the other day (well, somebody else thought of it, sort of, but I jumped on  . . . → → →

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This is Horror Awards for 2016: Open

And ready for anybody’s votes. Maybe the strongest line-up of finalists I’ve yet seen. Honored for Mongrels to be included. Click here to go there, and vote with your many-many email aliases.

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This is Why I’ve Spent So Much of My Life Looking in Basements

Just unutterably cool, this. I’m not even sure I have all the words. Here’s one pic: Here‘s the whole page. I think I might be this Thomas Merrilyn, slightly reincarnated.

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One Last Mongrels Write-Up

That I’d have missed without being passed the link on Twitter—thanks. This one’s over on Amazon UK, and . . . so cool, right up there with that Will Byrnes write-up on Goodreads. I’ll link it then screencap it in as well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R30YK... Also: so much thank you to everyone who thought to say something about Mongrels. Means everything. Happy almost-2017.

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Mongrels trade (UK)

Hey, look what’s sneaking onto the book tables in Australia here at the end of 2016: [ thanks to Emma Osborne for the snap ]

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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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