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January 3, 2022
Best Reads from Lately
Which are pretty soon from the last post like this. But, in my disorganized notes, I found a whole stack that I’d meant to post (hopefully I haven’t already?), so, with them, yeah, there’s already a few here. I’ll put some “####” down where the breakover point is from recovered/unlost ones to “new” ones.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3685298/jason-blum-explains-halloween-kills-going-straight-strea…
January 1, 2022
2022’s soundtrack
I mean, for me. Started dialing up music videos last night about 1:30 in the morning, I guess. Then, just now, had the bright idea to pull my watch-history up, add them all, in the same order, to a playlist. Which I think I’ll now use to write a novel; I like this progression, these songs.
Anyway, here’s me about halfway through those music videos:
…So this is the year I turn 50, apparently, somehow. But I’m still up watching Night Ranger videos the same as when I was 17. I’
Best of 2021
Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster:
PoetryIt came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably be reading it again. Which is to say: I agree with the Pulitzer committee:
Fight SceneA new category, but this scene warrants it:
runner up for fight scene on a b…Best of 2021 so far: for December
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December 28, 2021
S&S and Chainsaw
Nothing cooler than having your publisher very much behind your book:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/h/books-i-love-to-give-holiday-gift-guide?ss_sid=132390340…Chainsaw avalanche, part the thirteenth
No time today to pretty this up, so, gonna be a mix of embeds and links:
@SGJ72 you'll never guess what I got you for Xmas! pic.twitter.com/v6rnPGtG15
— Dan Chaon (@Danchaon) December 27, 2021
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/arts/graphics/2021/12/best-of-2021-books/
BFG Week in Review Podcast #33: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘The Expanse,’ and the Year in Horror Fiction
LitReactor Staff Picks: The Best Books of 2021 – Part II | LitR…
Scattered links/articles/reviews/lists
https://the-line-up.com/special-edition-horror-books[image error]http://americareads…New tune: the theme to imaginary 80s slasher #FearleaderHackademyIVTheLastCheer. Inspired by my enduring love of (often dreadful) horror flicks and @SGJ72 's cracking meta-slasher novel #TheLastFinalGirl.#Presonus #StudioOne @PreSonus @PresonusStudio1 https://t.co/mMYwFy3UY3 pic.twitter.com/4qI6nPiHyB
— Klaktonon Industries (@Klaktonon) December 20, 2021
Couple of interviews
Both video, though one you have to go the place for:
https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/interview-a-discussion-with-stephen-graham-jones…
Coming Soon: Slash-Her
…Another blurb is in, this time from the King of slashers, the one and only @SGJ72
— Janine Pipe // My guts are out, Coop! (@JaninePipe28) December 22, 2021
Very, VERY grateful for this.
cc @kandishapress
SLASH-HER due to release March 2022
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Spotlit!
(though, if you haven’t read everything from Mongrels up to Chainsaw, then, beware spoilers . . . )…
