I started a creative writing club at my school this year. Pleased to report the club was a success! We met throughout the year to critique/discuss stories and poems the students had written. In the fall, John Langan and Laird Barron visited the school and met with the club. Suitably inspired by the visit of large, hairy, horror writers, for our end ( Read more... )

Two years ago I threw down my top 74 horror movie list. Given the list is 2 years old now, I'd like to retroactively add a few more movies to that list, but do it without retroactively removing some of the old titles. That doesn't make total sense, I know, but I'm doing it anyway.

Movies I've seen after I made the list:

--Lake Mungo goes in my ( Read more... )

I wrote a big fat essay about the Helmet show I went to in August. It's about music, sibling relationships, existential crisis, pop culture obsession, influence, art, and toddler-sized beers. Go read it!

"Have you ever been alone in a room full of people? I ask because my most recent Sartre[1]-esque bout of existential loneliness happened after my ( Read more... )

I’ve decided to put my son Cole in charge of making promotional videos. Here’s the first. I was sent through a playground obstacle course. I’ll have you all know I supposedly “tied” Emma’s best time on the course. I think there was some funny business with the clock, dammit.

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In this second video, you can really see his directorial hand maturing ( Read more... )

Both interviews manage to cover some different ground.

--First up, at mybookishways

"How about Meet the Feebles meets Citizen Kane! (nah, too obscure, and while there’s a kernel of truth to that pitch, it’s not one-hundred percent accurate. I love that pairing though. I’d be willing to bet no one has elevator-pitched with those two films."--And ( Read more... )

I wrote a review of Brian Evenson's IMMOBILITY for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and it's live today. Call me the critic. But for today only.

"IN 2010 A CLEVER BLOG titled the Imaginary Library posted covers, jacket copy, and blurbs for books that did not actually exist. The April 5, 2010 entry was for a bleak, post-apocalyptic detective novel ( Read more... )

Timing is everything, right? Well, I don't have any.

In the midst of moving out of my house of 13 years, my novel SWALLOWING A DONKEY'S EYE was released yesterday. Now that I've unpacked my computer, I can participate in the promo fun.

In the mean time, go and consume! Buy here!Some of the goings on and release bacchanalia ( Read more... )

I'm really looking forward to stalking seeing all my talented friends at Readercon this weekend. Special bonus of my family spending most of the con weekend in the hotel with me too. I hope they don't mind my coming back to the room after a late night of literary discussion!

To the schedule!

Friday July 13

11:30 AM VT Reading. Paul Tremblay. ( Read more... )

Formerly only available as a limited edition from Necropolitan Press, The Harlequin and the Train is now a $2.99 ebook. Available at amazon now, and soon to be in Nook and Apple's iTunes as well. The ebook version is gussied up with hyperlinks. They're fun and informative ( Read more... )

The festival is free to the public and held on the USC campus. If I have time I'll try to find where John Carpenter fell asleep in film classes. See you in LA!

Crime Fiction: Out of the Box, Saturday, 4/21/2012, 3:30:00 PM

Moderator/Interviewer/Introducer

Celeste Fremon

Panelists

Nelson George

Gary Phillips

P.G. Sturges

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