Alas, for reasons of finances, I am not at Worldcon this year. (My plan to provide all speculative fiction authors with magical wands that with a single whisk provide unlimited travel funds to all conventions is, shockingly, proving impractical.) But for those of you who are, I've been asked to pass on the info that Daily Science Fiction -- that ( Read more... )

So the parts of last week not focused on golf were more or less focused on ICFA when I wasn't sleeping through it. Sorry, guys, that most definitely counts under the "it's not you, it's me," umbrella; the worst thing about ICFA was that I didn't get to spend nearly enough time at it; I was there for maybe 1/3 of the con. The second worst thing was ( Read more... )

Going in and out of dizziness/vertigo today, which is both depressing and making it difficult to focus on much, but a couple of other things going on today:

1. The Madeleine L'Engle reread continues with A Wrinkle in Time. Much thanks to Catherynne Valente (yuki_onna for insights with this one.

2. In related news, Tor.com is giving away A Wrinkle in ( Read more... )

Mythic Delirium #25 is here! Purchase information at the link, and yes, you want to purchase, you do, because this particular issue has a couple of poems by me and also includes poems by such luminaries as Catherynne Valente (yuki_onna), Sonya Taaffe (who incidentally also has a new poetry collection available from Papaveria Press), Rose Lemberg (rose_lemberg), Mary ( Read more... )

The tentacles, they are coming!

Just got word that Future Lovecraft, an anthology containing my little poem, "Do Not Imagine," is ready for pre-order -- and, er, already up for the Kindle for regular, buy right now order.

Before people gulp and squeak, wait, tentacle poetry, let me assure you that the anthology contains lots of short fiction as ( Read more... )

Some surprising news about Cthulhu.

Innsmouth Free Press has a mini interview with me up today.

More importantly, your feel good story of the day: KITTEN!

So sometime last fall the kindly editors at Innsmouth Free Press made the mistake of complaining, on Twitter, that they were just not seeing enough stories focused on ancient Egypt for their upcoming multi-ethnic issue. Let me clarify. The mistake was not the complaint. The mistake was allowing me to see the complaint ( Read more... )

Oz blogging continues up at Tor.com, as I discuss Captain Salt in Oz - a book I have a hard time calling an "Oz" book, since, well, it's not actually set in Oz. But it's considered one of the canonical Famous Forty, so, there we go.

Meanwhile, the marine biologists at Arkham University have a small announcement to makeI've been asked if I have a ( Read more... )

Two mostly unrelated matters:

1. Innsmouth Free Press just published the latest installment of "Shadows of the Reef." I'll be putting up a post listing all of the installments in order fairly soon, but in the meantime, if you'd like to catch up, you should be able to do so by clicking the tags for Innsmouth Free Press or Shadows on the Reef. (The ( Read more... )