Stephen Graham Jones's Blog, page 279
March 24, 2011
Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch has problems, yes. Usually, though, you can squint just right, only watch the parts of the movie that the trailer sold you on, and you're good. Not this time. Which, this is a hyperkinetic, Scott Pilgrim–kind of fantasy fight movie involving steam-powered zombies, with some pretty cool updates of standard songs going on [...]
March 16, 2011
The Real Dogs
So one time I'm on the phone with the bank, talking to a robot about money, when I hit the wrong key, somehow ended up with Laird Barron on the other end, and I could tell from the way he was talking that his mouth was just real close to the phone, close enough I [...]
March 12, 2011
Another table of contents
that I'm proud and lucky and honored to be in: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, ed. Paula Guran.
Good company
to be in for this.
March 1, 2011
Thunder Dome!
Which, yes, that was a very intentional, seldom-seen exclamation point. But could there be a cooler title for a journal? Got a story up there now, too, "The Sadness of Two People Meeting in a Bar."
February 28, 2011
Stoker Final Ballot
Superior Achievement in a COLLECTION OCCULTATION by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books) BLOOD AND GRISTLE by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books) FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster) THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY by Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books) A HOST OF SHADOWS by Harry Shannon (Dark Regions Press) just happy [...]
February 22, 2011
Timber …
Couple new stories up in the debut of Timber, "The Bridge" and "The Wisdom of Solomon." Also, Juked's put "Snow Monsters" up in the 2011 Million Writers Award.
February 21, 2011
Anthologies
Couple of TOCs I'm lucky enough to be in posted today, Creatures, edited by Paul Tremblay and John Langan, and Bestiary, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.
February 3, 2011
First Stop Fiction
a very cool place. I like the idea, too, of stopping at the first, you know, 'stop.' think it's what I always do. and, got a story up there, "Seafood."
January 31, 2011
Publisher's Weekly
from Publisher's Weekly: The Ones That Got Away Stephen Graham Jones, Prime (www.prime-books.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978–1-60701–235-1 Thirteen horror stories, most originally published between 2005 and 2010, make up Native American writer Jones's second collection (after 2005's Bleed into Me). Several stories feature children coming of age: in "Father, Son, Holy Rabbit," a father and [...]
