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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Another review for Engines
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They’ve tapered off, naturally, so I haven’t done this in a while – but it’s nice that a year after publication, the collection is still being reviewed – and I have to say, this is by far the best one to date. Nina Allen, who first mentioned the collection back in February on her blog [...]

I’m a Shirley Jackson Award nominee – TIMES TWO
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Engines of Desire has been nominated for Best Single Author Collection, and “Omphalos” has been nominated for Best Novelette. The full list of nominees is here. Looking at the very formidable competition, which is sort of crushing me even now, all I can say is I’m glad I was nominated, and many thanks to the [...]

Quick post between killing insects… on Earth Day!
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Actually, I think most of the insects have been washed away by the nor’ester blowing through here. Anyway, over on Underwords (ha!), Erin Underwood has posted a group interview of many of the contributors to Best Horror of the Year Volume 4. Back to celebrating this beautiful day dedicated to respecting our planet and its [...]

The Book of Cthulhu II
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My short story “Take Your Daughters to Work” will be reprinted in this anthology, which will be published sometime this fall (from Night Shade Press). Take a look at this cover – I’m so excited, coffee keeps coming out of my mouth! (and I’m not even drinking coffee, so that’s extra weird…)

A Grievous wrong made right
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I’ve been told that my post on my visit to the CIA compound left out one of the most important parts of the entire trip: after our daytrip to Virginia, we drove back to Brian Keene’s house in Pennsylvania, where he had prepared for me and Mary Sangiovanni what can only be described as one [...]

Going forward, a small change
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After some recent events, I’ve decided to no longer give my stories away to markets and anthologies that don’t pay me [edited to add: I'm talking about genre markets, i.e. sf/f/h - literary markets are an entirely different matter]. I don’t think it’s necessary for me to do this anymore for a number of reasons, [...]

Best field trip ever: chatting with writers at the CIA
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I was going to post about this yesterday, then realized it was April 1 and no one would believe me. Chances are most people will think this post is full of shit anyway, but whatever. About six weeks ago I received an invitation via Mary Sangiovanni from Scott M. Baker asking us, along with fellow [...]