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August 2, 2016
This Werewolf is Different
Cool. Or, I could just say: TVTropes.
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August 1, 2016
Gamut Magazine slouches onto the scene
And one of the stories from After the People Lights Have Gone Off is up as a free sample. “Second Chances,” with a cool illustration:
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July 26, 2016
File Under (Again): Mongrels, Origin Stories
Actually, I wrote Mongrels (and the chapter this could pertain to) a couple of months before cueing this one up. However, Peter Beagle’s famous old story “Lila the Werewolf?” I definitely knew that one. [ Shelter from Eve Edelson on Vimeo, which his where you have to watch this one, looks like . . . ] Check here for the first installment of these origin stories. Not sure there’ll be another. Could be, as I remember / think of.
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July 22, 2016
Werewolves Out in the World, Part XVI
In Colorado, it’s all about the fourteeners. Here, we’re all about the sixteener—which this is, somehow, already, after all these months. So cool, all the werewolf stuff coming my way, all the Mongrels snapshots &etc happening still. All of everything, including all the previous installments, which are going to tax my Julius Caesar numbering: I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV And . . . let’s start with Litsy, the best book-place ever: So cool to get a second read, so fast. Thank you, Rebeccak, whom my autocorrect really-really wants to fix. And, check this werewolf out, hiding mongst the milling crowd, leaned forward to peer through all the spines: And, man do I love the dog + books pics. Not something I would have ever anticipated, and now something I can’t do without: And, look closely: this isn’t actually a photograph. Because no such animal exists: Either the werewolf-unicorn OR a Mongrels sequel. However, I do have it all planned out, should I get the chance . . . And, dig the #hashcloud, yeah? And, dig the Disappearance at Devil’s Rock dude’s cool threads: That one’s kind of a collector-one, in that now they all have the book title printed under the circle. Also? There’s eight or ten copies of Mongrels cheap-printed up (by William Morrow) WITH that cover. For kicks and grins, and blurbers. And, is this a repost? I mean, chronologically, it’s in sequence with the . . . → → →
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July 20, 2016
Tor Novella
Announcing Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
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July 18, 2016
Comic Book Covers
Think I’ve got a real weakness for the red ones. Diego Latorre, Ninjak: Jim Lee, Wolf Moon: Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key: [ don’t be surprised if I keep adding red covers/cover art to this page . . . ]
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July 17, 2016
Last Couple of Mongrels Events
Really, I think I have a stash of pics from another Mongrels thing, but now I can’t remember where. But I know I have these two anyway, as they’re from the last couple days. First was up in Fort Collins, with HEX-author Thomas Olde Heuvelt. And, Olde’s not a middle name, that’s just the first part of his last name. He’s a cool dude, smart guy, excellent horror writer. We talked about where horror comes from, the kind of genesis for/of each of our books, and then we broke out some action figures and fought witches against wolves, complete with sound effects. As you do. And here’s a string of cool happenings from last night in LA, at the Shades & Shadows reading, where, I have it on good authority, someone blacked out during a piece I was reading (also, when I looked up, there was one person who I think was gagging. it’s a cannibalism story, though. these are good signs). So, here’s the crowd, milling about beforehand: I should maybe note there that while aforesaid milling was going on? Me and Paul Tremblay were down the street at the wrong venue. Who knew one street could have two places called “Bearded Lady” within walking distance of one another? Then, inside—man. Here’s how cool the venue was: Here’s a telephoto shot of me, moving so fast that I was blurring: And then less blurry (via Yennie Cheung): That dude standing over the left, in the first of these two “action reading” pics? He was . . . → → →
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Last Two Mongrels Events
Really, I think I have a stash of pics from another Mongrels thing, but now I can’t remember where. But I know I have these two anyway, as they’re from the last couple days. First was up in Fort Collins, with HEX-author Thomas Olde Heuvelt. And, Olde’s not a middle name, that’s just the first part of his last name. He’s a cool dude, smart guy, excellent horror writer. We talked about where horror comes from, the kind of genesis for/of each of our books, and then we broke out some action figures and fought witches against wolves, complete with sound effects. As you do. And here’s a string of cool happenings from last night in LA, at the Shades & Shadows reading, where, I have it on good authority, someone blacked out during a piece I was reading (also, when I looked up, there was one person who I think was gagging. it’s a cannibalism story, though. these are good signs). So, here’s the crowd, milling about beforehand: I should maybe note there that while aforesaid milling was going on? Me and Paul Tremblay were down the street at the wrong venue. Who knew one street could have two places called “Bearded Lady” within walking distance of one another? Then, inside—man. Here’s how cool the venue was: Here’s a telephoto shot of me, moving so fast that I was blurring: That dude standing over the left, there? He was taking actually kind of high-quality photos (not to impugn Paul’s clicking abilities . . .), so there . . . → → →
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Werewolves Out in the World, Part XV
Thinking I should have been somehow tagging these snapshots through all fourteen other iterations of this. That way I could re-index, put, say, all the Litsy ones in a gallery, all the “with pets”-ones somewhere, all the “act-of-reading” or whatever ones in another place. Categories are starting to emerge, I mean. Check the out, they’re kind of straining to self-classify: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen One category that keeps happening is the action-figure ones, which I so dig: And the chain bookstores are still keeping Mongrels front & center: And, when you wear a cool jacket, it kind of just behooves you to carry an axe, so far as I know: Ha, excellent, thank you, Briana: Yes, yes I am jealous: Another burgeoning category: I now get tagged in all things werewolf. Which is pretty much the dream come true: [ link to that one here ] Hoping Liza dug it: Was just watching videos of redback spiders eating killer snakes in Australia. Happy to be there (and apologies—I seem to have not fit the name of whoever posted this in here. and I usually at least try to do that. but now I have no idea how to find it again . . .): This definitely NEEDS to be the new category: Can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something I like about this table . . . . . → → →
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July 13, 2016
Writing: It Takes a Village
For the thing I’m writing right now, I of course needed info. This is just for today and yesterday, too. Here’s the process: What’s a likely military-cargo plane out of the Middle East? ➔ called my dad (retired USAF) Where’s John Wayne buried? ➔ asked Google How does a doctor get certified to perform surgery? ➔ facebook-mailed a doctor-friend (who’s also a writer) What other Road Rage-ish kind of stories are out there? ➔ texted a friend, ended up talking about Lorenzo Lamas for many rounds, as you do (also discussed the wearing of vests without a shirt underneath) What kind of plane would a doctor have, for weekends &etc? ➔ emailed another friend (USAF, and a writer) What’s that Spider-Man cover with Pete in the middle, his troubles all around? ➔ asked on Twitter, and some very helpful followers seemed to already know What’s a good body of water around Albuquerque? ➔ emailed a friend down there (narrowly avoided the usual slate of Walter White mentions I always have handy) What’s James Stewart’s character’s name in Vertigo? ➔ “Scottie,” said Google, in kind of an insulted tone How many gears would a 1981 Shovelhead most likely have, if it was somewhat stock? ➔ texted my brother, and he knew right off For the details on a non-public ceremony coming up in a few pages? ➔ do I make it up, or do I ask friends who know it? I think I’ll just write it, then have one of them read it, tell me what-all I’m doing wrong, and how insulting I’m being (hopefully? some. . . . → → →
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