This year is the year of stories.

I have two new ones out today.

"The Girl Who Loved Cthulhu," a short story sequel to I Am Providence, is out today in the Lovecraftian anthology The Cackle of Cthulhu.

"Night out at a Nice Place" is a science fiction story appearing in the latest issue of Apex Magazine. Not quite live yet, but you can download ( Read more... )

I have a tinyletter now.

https://tinyletter.com/Mamatas

The Haikasoru Humble Bundle-sixteen ebooks for $20-ends in two and a half hours!

If you like to read, check out "The End of the End of History" on the Great Jones Street Medium page. It's part of Mixed Up!

And if you don't like reading, all you need to do is click on the latest episode of Pseudopod to hear my new short story, "A Howling Dog" as a podcast. It's an original story, not yet in print, so can only be listened to so

Sixteen books, twenty bucks, including the first three volumes of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and our frontlist hard SF title Orbital Cloud.

What are you waiting for?

I've been wondering what would lead me to update this blog again. It took the death of Bobby Heenan.

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Bobby Heenan was not a great wrestler.

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He was, however, that rarest of people-an excellent personality. Few people can make a living just by being themselves, but Heenan managed it.

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He was always super-quick, sometimes with what we now ( Read more... )

Amazon has received its crate of Mixed Up and opened up. That is, the book, which was due to hit the streets on October 3, is in stock and shipping now. So why not buy it?

"The Spook School" is now live.

Read it.

Listen to it.

A little Q/A with me.

you're in luck.

The Quarterly's August 2017 Culinary Box includes an advanced copy of Mixed Up, annotated by co-editor Molly Tanzer via Post-It note, and cocktail ingredients!

"The Spook School" in the latest issue of Nightmare Magazine.