Stephen Graham Jones

Read two this week, each so, so excellent. Got like fourteen seconds here to say something about them, but I’ll try to steal fourteen more, too, as I can’t not say something about them:

Horrorstor was fun, definitely, but, gotta say: I keyed on the horror stuff, but the IKEA stuff, it went right past me, I think. I’m both not remotely interested in furniture or . . . ‘decor,’ is that the word? and, probably because of that, I’ve never been in …

This is Part V in this series, this digest, this stack of screencaps. The first four parts are here: one, two, three, and four.

Let’s hit it:

Is the truck longer in the audio? David James Keaton was saying so. Could be. 

Always great to be in Rebecca’s classroom—thank you:

Via Theo, who’s maybe in a previous installment of this?

This is a gospel that needs spreading: “necessity.”

And, I think Mallory, in boots, was in the “IV” of th…

Figured I’d archive the posters/banners each place makes, and slip the link in so’s they don’t get just completely lost. Will embed when embedding’s a thing, too:

TIH 092: Stephen Graham Jones on Werewolves, Mongrels and Common Writing Mistakes

Check out the “Show Notes” on that click, too. Most places? They don’t give you a cheat sheet. Also available on YouTube:

And here’s the part II of that:

TIH 094: Stephen Graham J

Which is to say: Bob Seger singing a Waylon Jennings song written by Steve Earle. Maybe the most golden pedigree I can dream of. I mean, okay: if this was somehow all happening in the passenger seat not just of a 77 Trans-Am, but if all three of these music makers were in the actual car with Burt Reynolds AS they’re shooting Smokey & the Bandit, AND Jerry Reed-as-Snowman is riding right behind AND they’re driving past Graceland, then it could maybe be cooler. But …

This is from Murder by the Book—which shuttered up as soon as I was done, as the rain was coming down, and Houston’s understandably pretty water-shy this summer, and where we were was evidently a place that goes lake just when the humidity gets high enough.

That’s the with-specs shot. Here’s the without,where I suspect I’m, for reasons not really know, explaining Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle to the tolerant audience:

And yes, that’…

According to the Wall Street Journal:

And here’s the longer list, via the Denver Post:

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The first three parts of this are here: one, two, three.

And this part? Starts with “Rainy Day Book Porn,” of course:

Which—those are some books Mongrels hasn’t shown up by yet. Cool.

And, lest we forget the audio version:

And, what’s weird, and maybe even unnecessary? To screen cap your (my) own (Whataburger) post instead of just uploading it straight from my camera roll:

(trick is, it all sizes better if it’s screencaps…

Remember that amazing-cool review of Growing Up Dead in Texas the Dallas Morning News did four years ago? I do. Welp, just pulled into Dallas, picked up a Sunday paper down at the hotel’s coffee shop, and:

Extended (and complete) interview here: http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/books/20160520-from-west-texas-to-adolescent-werewolves-stephen-graham-jones-wild-ride-to-book-success.ece

And here’s what you get on that 4E:

Would have tak…

If you want to peel back the days:

• Part 1 of this
• Part the second 

And, would wait to post this until Monday or Tuesday, but the cool pics keep stacking up. If I wait any longer, this post won’t load. So, without me making this post any longer with boring words, let’s get to the snapshots:

Mongrels isn’t only with a book about the Black Hills, but . . . see how that’s where this wolf is going? He knows where’s good. He knows where matters.

And, way east o…

I mean, I figured SOMEONE needed to step up, answers all Mongrels questions. Then I figured, hey, wait: that’s me. So I did:

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