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Bandanna land

haven’t seen one yet, but I keep hearing about these:

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Cool spread of books . . .

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Jack Ketchum words

Thanks to Michael David Wilson for wrapping them up over at LitReactor. Especially “I figure if I don’t scare myself, if I don’t feel that dread of what’s coming up next, I probably won’t scare you.”

https://litreactor.com/columns/celebrating-dallas-mayr-the-wisdom-of-jack-ketchum-1946-2018 

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Oh, man

Thought I was just writing fiction in Sterling City, what with the giant chrome-eyed caterpillars and all, but, oops:

Here’s how Sterling City starts out:

So, you know, watch out for the jumbo-size caterpillars and all. In a few million years.…

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Mapping the Interior

I very much approve of this level of staging:

 

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Words per minute

I dream of a word processor that throws a little a WPM gauge up in the right corner, so I can keep a close eye for when I’m backing off the throttle more than I should. Way back, when instant-messaging first came around? I used to write chat scripts to talk to different hardly-remote people, and we’d testrun it, use the chat to IM, all that. What I found out pretty quick with that was that I never cared for the content of our back and forth. What mattered to me was winning the …

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Blood Business

Good time at Tattered Cover last night, with a whole TOC’s worth of us there—enough that we needed a spinner-wheel to figure out who got to read:

[ photo: Catherine Spader ]

Which? My number spun up. I had to borrow a woman from the audience’s reading glasses, since my arms are only so long, but when I focused in, it was on one of Ed Bryant’s last two published stories. So cool to get to read his words to a big crowd. Thanks, Hex Publishers / Josh Viola. And, thanks, …

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Shawn Kemp

In my weakest moments, I imagine that there’s some version of myself in some distant iteration of Earth, dunking like Shawn Kemp:

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