Lost in all the hubbub over the release of Vaporware (and you do have your copy, don't you?) was the appearance in the latest (long-delayed, alas) issue of Bull Spec of my memoriam for Ray Bradbury. I met the man once and later got a Christmas card from him. What happened in between? Pick up Bull Spec and find out.

And so that's why you'll want to swing over to Sleeping Hedgehog, to check out my take on the Jack Vance mystery omnibus Dangerous Ways. When you're done with that, stick around for my view of Kevin Kosar's Whiskey: A Global History, which combines two of my favorite topics: whisky and whisky.

For those more print-inclined, there's the new issue of ( Read more... )

So I had been planning a giant "Hey, here's all the writing I've got coming up" post for a while now, but since the Escapist forced my hand by, you know, actually publishing something, I figured I might as well actually get to it.

• March 3, my short fiction piece "There Is No Bird" will be up at Tainted Tea
• March 15, it's looking like storySouth will ( Read more... )

He's taller than I expected. Tonight's reading was a chapter out of the new book, entitled "Muskrat" - the chapter, not the book - followed by a short Q&A. Many familiar faces in the crowd (not terribly surprising, really), though not quite as full a house as one might have expected ( Read more... )

Here's the link.

I'm the guy banging his shoe on the table and announcing that "we will bury literary fiction". Or something like that.

I'll let Sam say it:

Tune into WUNC's "The State of Things" on Wednesday July 21!

Fans of Bull Spec or whomever else, tune into WUNC's "The State of Things" on Wednesday, July 21st at noon! Guests will include Bull Spec's Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, NCSU professor and award-winning author John Kessel, game designer and author Richard Dansky, and ( Read more... )