Busy month, but aren’t they all:
➔ September 1: Pixel Project live Q&A (I’m posting this after I actually did it…)
➔ September 6: giving the keynote address for Lighthouse’s The Book Project: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/adult-programs/book-project
➔ September 13th: introducing Friday the 13th at Alamo Draft House, the Sloane’s Lake location: https://drafthouse.com/denver/show/friday-the-13th
➔ September 14th: …
Feel like I’m always talking about what I’ve seen and read, but never about what I WANT to see and read. So, this is that, though I’ve been so lost in World Fantasy reading and a not-announced (I don’t think) reading thing that most of what I want to read is already out (except John Langan’s Sefira, but I’ve already got a copy of that). Well, okay, King’s got a new one here shortly, doesn’t he? I’ll be all over that, of cour…
My phone and podcasts were fried in a gym the other day, so I dialed back to 2016, to Jordan Peele before Get Out hit, and took over the world. Very cool episode, as they all are, but what’s especially cool is, at about the 48-, 49-minute mark, Peele, maybe not even thinking he’d ever get to make Us real, says what feels to me a lot like the seed of that story: the mom being the mom, but also not the mom. I would snip it out, post it here, but that feels . . . not bootleggy, but like …
Title . . . . Night of the Mannequins. Slasher through and through.
For a long time I’ve been wondering what’s left to do in slasherland, what territory hasn’t already been gone over fifty times, and better than I could ever do it. Night of the Mannequins is in what feels like that unexplored space. Couldn’t be more excited, both …
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway:
Originally? “Part II” was the title I fought and fought for on this book. Glad I lost that.
Okay, probably not a slasher, but it’s a summer camp, there’s lots OF slashing going on. I’m there:
is the author of 22 or 23 books, ~300 stories, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots
