Happiness is a dog and a book

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The Endless

Looks to be halfway between, say . . . The Void and Coherence, maybe? Either way, I’m game. Thanks to Matt Pridham for the headsup.

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Mongrels on Tor.com

Supercool write-up. Always good to be sharing space with Victor LaValle:

Lovecraftian Horror and The Alchemy of the New

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I mean — yeah

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alt_Happy Death Day?

Hey, cool:

https://youtu.be/p2n2yJL3aog

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LeGuin, Ketchum

LeGuin’s Hainish Cycle is one of the places my imagination sparked in what felt like a story way for the first time. I’ll never forget them, nor The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Hand of Darkness, and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is forever in me. Here’s Margaret Atwood, bidding her farewell:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/24/ursula-k-le-guin-margaret-atwood-tribute

And here’s LeGuin herself, laying it dow

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Mad Hatters at the Cocteau

Good time this weekend in snowy Santa Fe. That’s me in the slash hat.

What you can’t see? There’s slashers all on the hatband:

Guess Ghostface is kind of criminally tilted (sorry, Billy and Stu), and the jewel of them all is the werewolf, but slashers on a Slash hat is the real joke. Werewolves? Werewolves are never the joke.

Anyway, we talked Alice and “Alis” (my story. we all talked about our own stories, to start things off) and I think I misreme…

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