I saw that today the Sharknado movies started running, and I watched some of the good parts of 1 and 2 . The ending of S2 (NYC) is fun--the Today show scenes, etc.. Sharknado 4 is on tomorrow night; S3 precedes it.. Planet of the Sharks is on at 1 am tonight, and I missed it the other day. (I wanted to see the beginning of the planet being ( Read more... )

I'm looking forward to Sharknado: The 4th Awakens; it's scheduled for Sunday, July 31. And I see that the SyFy channel is running a lot of shark movies to get us there. (There are that many?!) A new one, Dam Sharks!, is this Monday night. Hmm. Not much info on the plot yet. The genre is Horror; and the blurb says: Voracious sharks use human bodies ( Read more... )

"I couldn't figure it out. In Spain, almost no women write science fiction, fantasy, or horror, and yet I could find no apparent sexism among editors and fans. Quite the opposite: women writers and fans, few though they are, get treated with real respect, get published regularly, and win top prizes.

What was holding Spanish women back?  ..."

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Here's an interesting blog I came across recently:  Haiku & Horror   It has reviews, market listings, contests, and more with lots of links to resources, zines, etc.  Hey, look at that, a book titled Florida Horror.  Scarier things than gators and escaped exotic pets?!  And the Biblical terror anthology (deadline 12/31) sounds intriguing.

Here's an anthology with an intriguing combination of stories, including horror and mysteries.  There are stories by David C. Kopaska-Merkel and mystery writer Michael Bracken, also Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, and Abraham Lincoln!  (Based on one of his court cases.)  Check out her selections at: AnthologyBuilder: create your ideal anthology

I learned about this interesting website via a listserve I belong to (Thanks, Barbara).  It's a site of the week: Site of the week: Book View Cafe | Books | guardian.co.uk

"Launched on Saturday by a group of published writers - including the wonderful Ursula Le Guin - it describes itself as a new approach to publishing made possible by the internet ( Read more... )