Up All Night

Twitter remains fascinating for conversational speed, from the events in Missouri to a local campaign against an Israeli boat docking at the Port of Oakland to some guy's meltdown over his cheating girlfriend and what it supposedly means for "journalistic integrity" among video game websites (hint: nothing, it means nothing). I've been on Twitter for a few years now, but it never really attracted my attention as completely as it has before. I suppose I finally found the right mix of people to follow for the sort of breaking news and breaking gossip in which I am interested.

Not too much else to report: Letters to Lovecraft is up for pre-order. It's yet another anthology of Lovecraftian fiction, and the gimmick this time is that the authors all flipped through Supernatural Horror in Literature and found something in it to respond to in a work of fiction. My story "The Semi-Finished Basement" is a reaction to the line "...a diluted product can never achieve the intensity of a concentrated essence." The book also includes work by:

Brian Evenson
Nadia Bulkin
Paul Tremblay
Livia Llewellyn
Stephen Graham Jones
Tim Lebbon
Cameron Pierce
Asamatsu Ken
Jeffrey Ford
Angela Slatter
Gemma Files
Chesya Burke
Orrin Grey
David Yale Ardanuy
Kirsten Alene
Robin D. Laws
Molly Tanzer


(I presume this is the order of the ToC.) Anyway, of interest is that the publisher sells print/ebook bundles: you can get both from Stone Skin Press for $13.99 and cut out all vampiric middlemen.