Every once in a while, some­thing espe­cially cool hap­pens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flush­boy (2013) and Not for Noth­ing (2014). Which, a quick sort-of break­down: –Flush­boy’s what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love sto­ries. It’s this kid, pretty much inden­tured into work­ing the drive-through win­dow at […]

Most direc­tors can do one thing just really, really well. David Lynch, say, he can fol­low a tele­phone cord up and up such that you get all caught up in the lan­guorous spi­ral, and that becomes not just the whole room, but the whole story. Wes Craven, he can rig a chase through a tight […]

M. Night Shya­malan had his work cut out with The Last Air­ben­der. Not only did he have to run with a dif­fer­ent title than the orig­i­nal Nick­elodeon series—thanks, James Cameron—but he also had to some­how con­dense sixty-one episodes (1342 min­utes) into some­thing fea­ture length. Or, the trail­ers didn’t tell us oth­er­wise, any­way, but let me […]

Or, “What I did with my yes­ter­day,” yeah. Book: PARKER: THE HUNTER. Pretty fun; very straight­for­ward, and cool art. Though, the night before I was up until two or three in the morn­ing, unable to look away from the sec­ond vol­ume of SCALPED, “Casino Boo­gie.” I’ve always thought that SANDMAN or Y THE LAST MAN were […]

New/excellent/killer/wonderful cover and isbn for the story col­lec­tion, now called The Ones That Got Away. Was lucky enough to be in the fifty sto­ries Brian Even­son selected for Wigleaf. Clutch of new sto­ries over at Shad­ow­box, here. New story “Sun­sets Unlim­ited” at Hobart. Review of Splice at the San Anto­nio Cur­rent. I think I’ve got […]

The Night­mare continues …

Looks like that “The Ones Who Away” story of mine’s going in Paula Guran’s soon-here THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR. Too, I think the ver­sion going in that’s the one I re-rigged for THE ONES THAT ALMOST GOT AWAY, my October/Prime collection.

So, these judges, they were all hud­dled together over pizza and beer, and they got to dar­ing each other this and that (I hear there’s pics), and it finally came down to see­ing if they could slip a clown into the nov­el­ette cat­e­gory, strictly for fun, because who could win again Stephen King and Laird […]

Should you need to run me down: ( http://starland.com/ ) 8:00pm Fri­day night, that triple fea­ture. The poster’s down below here, or big­ger in my “etc” photo album. I’m intro­duc­ing, in this order, DEAD AND BURIED, THE KEEP, and THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (also: lots of cool trail­ers). am more than likely going to get some […]

Over Caleb J. Ross’s AWP Blog. Here.

In case any­body needs me next/AWP week, these are the places I def­i­nitely plan on being, though of course I’ll be trolling the book­fair for swag as well, and haunt­ing lob­bies, and skulk­ing around busstops, and gen­er­ally mak­ing a nui­sance of myself in var­i­ous restau­rants. And, no, I don’t know where any of these places […]

Any­body catch that “Lit­tle Lambs” story of mine IRON HORSE ran a few months ago? One of my favorites ever. Looks like it’s com­ing out again in Novem­ber, in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s THE WEIRD:A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK FICTIONS. Couldn’t be hap­pier about that.

Which, isn’t that an old TC Boyle story? It always stuck with me, any­way. But, only men­tion­ing it because it means ‘snow,’ and snow’s in this story of mine up at Juked, “Snow Mon­sters.” My snow story’s not nearly so long as “Ter­mi­na­tion Dust,” though. And, also, there’s “Mon­sters” in the titlte, which never hurts.

New story up over there, here. My claim is that it’s all made-up. Except for the animal parts.

New story up over at Zack Wentz’s excel­lent New Dead Families.

set­ting: Austin, Texas char­ac­ters: — a father – his daugh­ter – var­i­ous chu­pacabras – var­i­ous bor­der patrol agents – some peo­ple to kill right­eously pub­lisher: Trap­door Book2. syn­op­sis: the story of the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion between a daugh­ter and her long-gone father, as com­pli­cated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zom­bie place in The Bun­ny­head Chronicles: […]

Or, the logo Jen Michalski’s got up over there’s so cool, I have to paste it here. Click on it for the post on “Exodus.”