Book 10: Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Out of the Ordinary Readers by Steve Berman, isbn: 9781590212820, Lethe Press, 216 pages, $9.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): Red Caps might be a rock band. Or they might be something more sinister, a fey source of sounds that are but the backdrop to thrills and misadventures. These thirteen stories ( Read more... )

Book 92: Second Thoughts: More Queer and Weird Stories by Steve Berman, isbn 9781590210284, softcover, 211 pages, Lethe Press, $13.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): In author Steve Berman's second collection of stories and essays, he once more guides readers through the dark paths of his imagination. In these tales of regret a scent of ( Read more... )

A variety of my reviews have appeared around the internet and in print the past few months, so here's a list of where they can be found:

Book 47: Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe edited by Steve Berman, isbn: 9781590213346, Lethe Press, 324 pages, $20.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): The canon of Edgar Allan Poe, one ( Read more... )

I did get a good night's sleep last night. Turned the computer off and was in bed by 10:30, and even stopped texting with Apollo before 11pm. Slept from then til the alarm went off at 6:30. So I slept through the night! Daddy, I'm a big boy now ( Read more... )

I haven't really posted about the SEVEN TORTURES OF ANTHONY CARDNO (title subject to change depending on ... well, how many stories I actually get) in a while, so here's an update ( Read more... )

Last night I updated my website with an interview with young actress Alivia Latimer.

On Barry on the Spot, we collaboratively wrote a song about Psychotic Holiday Shoppers, called "What's On Sale." For those that aren't familiar with BOTS: Tuesday nights at 9pm Eastern, Barry Mangione hosts a webchat on Ustream during which he collaborates with the ( Read more... )

I had a fantastic time at my first Readercon. Got to spend a good amount of time talking to mroctober and ellen_datlow, as well as finally meeting some of my Twitter #sffwrtcht friends and folks I've interviewed. Sometime tomorrow I'll be mentally prepared to do a longer post about the panels and such (and some other thoughts that flitted through my head on the long ( Read more... )

These are books I've read since my last post that I cannot post reviews for because I reviewed them for print magazines:

Book 52: THE AFFAIR OF THE PORCELAIN DOG by Jess Faraday, isbn 9781602822306, 236 pages, Bold Stroke Books, $16.95

The review of this will appear in the debut issue of CHELSEA STATION, a new literary magazine debuting in November ( Read more... )

Book 41: Wilde Stories 2011 edited by Steve Berman, isbn 9781590213032, 289 pages, Lethe Press, $18.00

The Premise:  WILDE STORIES 2011 is the fourth installment in editor and publisher Steve Berman's annual collection of the best gay speculative fiction. This time he's drawn from a variety of anthologies and magazines to compile 14 stories with ( Read more... )

Book 35: Teeth: Vampire Tales edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, isbn 9780061935145, 480 pages, HarperCollins  $9.99

The Premise: (from the Amazon page)
Fascinated by vampires?

Then feast on nineteen tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead, and undead.

The vampires in these stories range from romantic ( Read more... )