Fast Red Road — All the Beautiful Sinners — Bird is Gone — Bleed Into Me — Demon Theory — Ledfeather — Nolan Dugatti — It Came from Del Rio — Ones That Got Away — Seven Spanish Angels — Zombie Bake-Off — Growing Up Dead in Texas — Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth — Last Final Girl — Three Miles Past — Not for Nothing — States of Grace — Flushboy — Gospel of Z — Floating Boy — Least of My Scars — After the People Lights Have Gone Off — Mongrels
And, are these even kind of in order? Well, not sure about the video game, I guess. Either way, this was a lot of work. A lot of very worthwhile work. Thanks:
I would look up the Jason-version—I seem to remember a pretty cool one, to the tune of . . . Drowning Pool, maybe?—but I’m supposed to be writing a novel right now. So, back that grindstone, that escape hatch, that even deeper rabbit hole.
Think I’m gonna have to make this an annual thing. Great time this long weekend, starting with me getting to my first panel late:
It was “Haunts & Nachos,” but really it was Travis Heerman and me just answering any and all horror questions we could for an hour, whilst it rained and stormed outside—this is Colorado in July/August; that’s the way all the days are, pretty much. But it cleared up enough for burgers and exploring Georgetown. Of which I have the usual zero pics—I’ve never once thought, “Man, I should take a picture of this”—but I can steal this video, from Jeffrey Reddick:
have been full of events. Feels like I haven’t been wheels-down since Denver Comic Con, about. Had three deadline stories to jam down along the way, and trying to finish a novel besides. But, of course: wouldn’t have it any other way.
Anyway, at Tattered Cover Lodo . . . last week, I think it was, I got to talk to Andy Davidson about his excellent Texas/serial killer/vampire novel In the Valley of the Sun:
Just about the usual: young couple living together, getting to know each other, nothing outlandish or horror-y at all, it’s completely safe, go in without your guard up, set your expectation-level to “literary” or somesuch:
NEW #HORROR FICTION! Read @SGJ72‘s latest short story, “All in Good Fun”.https://t.co/RjZi2Kz3PW pic.twitter.com/EjCErgsbQ5
— HexPublishers (@HexPublishers) August 1, 2017
starting this journalthing now, but I need to wrap up the week before, right quick:
➔ I had a story to write over the weekend. I wrote 2 or 3K words on it Saturday, decided those words were worthless, so wrote a completely new and different story on Sunday after seeing the Bourne movie. Both the movie and story were about three-quarters good.
And, I’m back from Santa Fe. Will throw some pics up soon here, if I can dig them all up.
Not the kind Jacob and his pack wore for Twilight, and not the kind some certain wolfling was carving into bathroom stalls all over the southeast. I’m talking the fiction kind. This one puts me in mind of Peter S. Beagle’s “Lila the Werewolf,” or that one story of mine from forever ago, “Old Meat“):