Nickronomicon countdown, Phantasm Japan Q/A

Some little Facebook blurb pre-reviews for The Nickronomicon:

Scott R. Jones read the new novelette in the book, "On the Occasion of My Retirement" and...



it made him giddy.

Jason Wayne "My Middle Name Doesn't Make Me a Serial Killer" Allen posted last night:



"...a masterpiece by a legend." I'll take it.

The pre-sale sends on Halloween. We blew past our goal a while ago and are still moving toward 200, which would be great to hit. Amazon normally doesn't discount micropress titles so heavily, so if you want the book for under eleven bucks, this is the last week you'll be able to get it.

Ebook pre-orders are also neat: Kindle, NOOK, and Kobo. Five bucks. Amazon continues to improve its market position by selling the book at a mere $4.99 though.


Over at the dayjob blog, I've been running brief Q/As with some of the contributors to Phantasm Japan, which you should also totally buy if you want a thrilling and wide-ranging anthology of high weirdness and low morals. We spoke with

James A. Moore, who retold a folktale about snow spirits

Gary A. Braunbeck who tackled FDR's shameful program of internment for Japanese migrants and Japanese-Americans during the Second World War

Lauren Naturale, who wrote a historical fantasy about theater and queerness in turn of the 20th century Tokyo

and Joseph Tomaras, who wrote an avant-garde story about an American man whose personality fissions into honne and tatemae.

Check out the Q/As—some of them get feisty!—and then the book. (And my other book. That's two books, people.)