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100 Story Collections @Bookriot

Honored to be included. And, especially cool to get to hang with people and books I know. I’ve been on panels with so many of these fine folk—that makes it sound like I’m talking about elves—and . . . I did my doctoral work with one, I guess. Rode elevators and had meals with others. Fictionland, man: it’s not as big as I always think.

And, as for that question at the end of books I might have included (apologies if they’re there and I somehow scrolled past th…

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Locus Poll

Voting’s open, and soon to close. Cool to be listed with so many good writers—cool for Mapping the Interior, anyway. I’m just the dude who wrote it.

https://locusmag.com/2018-locus-poll-and-survey/

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Literary Taxidermy

I’m one of these judges, in what looks to be a cool competition:

https://literarytaxidermy.com

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Heavy Day

I mean, like, literally. Each of these boxes are about fifty pounds, I’d guess:

Also the other kind of heavy, though—the Back to the Future kind of heavy, except this is about the past: those are all my papers. Every manuscript, all my undergraduate and graduate files, a bit of teaching stuff, my PhD comps, every convention and festival and conference program I’ve saved, every floppy and Zip disk I made at some point, all the posters I’ve got, twenty-seven y…

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Bram Stoker Award for Mapping the Interior

Amazing-cool. So honored. Couldn’t be there this time around, but could follow along online, and with people texting.

It starts here:

Then a zoom in on the night’s proceedings:

Then Rena Mason and Victor LaValle presenting for Mapping‘s category, long fiction:

And here’s Paul Tremblay accepting, with Mackenzie Kiera behind the camera:

Here’s a full list of everyone who got a Bram Stoker Award this year. 

And, finally, the actual award, wh

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The Facebook

In a few thousands years, I figure the aliens that come to dig through humanity’s (many, many) relics will find a thin strata of light blue in these early-is 2000s:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/

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Minnesota-bound

There for a lot of the days of this week. See some of you there, maybe:

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