This was my first bookseller’s con. Surely not my last, now that I know these kind of goings-on actually go
on. It was completely different from the cons and festivals I usually hit, too. For one, nobody was dressed like Data, or Boba Fett, and there were no remote-control robot fights or Bat’leth instruction sessions or zombie defense demonstrations, and there was nobody in steampunk hats or goggles. The name tags, though, they were galaxies better. Not that I’…
That’s a mouthful of a subject line, yes? No worries, though. In the 
actual interview, there’s zero internal rhyme. Unless that’s specifically what you’re looking for. In which situation there’s little to no rhyme at that particular station. Though there will be a lot of fashion.
And now my brain seriously hurts, trying to think of rhyme-words. It’s not my first calling. It’s not even my last resort. It’s more like my le…
Don’t be afraid to embrace a song, or how it makes you feel. Remember the person you were when it touched you, or where you were — Brian Azzarello
At the end of December 2011, I finally read Robert McCammon’s A Boy’s Life. One of the more amazing reading experiences I’ve had—maybe I’d somehow known to save it for the month before I turned forty? 
Anyway, somewhere in it the grown-up narrator says how important it is to always keep listening to the new music, how that keeps you a…
Favorite movie → Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Favorite novel → The Enterprise of Death or 11/22/63
Favorite collection → We Live Inside You
Favorite non-fiction → Shock Value or Teenage Wasteland or Blind Descent
Favorite current tv → Breaking Bad and Phineas & Ferb
Favorite catch-up tv → Deadwood
tv I miss the most → Alias
Best re-watched tv → Dead Set
Favorite comic book series → Locke & Key and Scalped
Graphic novel I’d never read before, now lovewantneed → Pixy
Comic ch…
I really really want to review it, but . . . anybody noticed that I only tend to do write-ups for books that are either problematic (or offensive to my delicate sensibilities) or that I can use a step to get up on my soapbox? And King’s 11/22/63, it’s just a solid, well-told, strongly-written book. And, if we’re to believe the sign-off at the end, a book written in, what, six weeks? I mean, I’m usually not intimidated by how fast somebody else can kick a boo…
who knew. and, it’s coming to Kindle in February. click the cover to go to the place.
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It’s live over at LitReactor. And it’s in keeping with that write-up I did over at Fantasy Matters a bit ago. And I guess I also kind of winged off the same stuff in my reviews of Freedom and The Last Werewolf. And, hopefully it’s not in any working against my first write-up dealing with all this, “On Genre,” at The Cult. And, I could have even been talking about some of this stuff (though running it through ‘fiction’ and ‘nonfi…
some links: LA Review of Books | Dallas Morning News | San Antonio Current | Mixedblood Message | Omnivoracious (Jeff Vandermeer) | Goodreads | Indie Bound | Bookfight | Foreword | Manarchy (Chris Deal) | TimeStageEmbassy | WordRiot (Edward J. Rathke) | Do Some Damage | Publisher’s Weekly | Punchnels | Austin Ame…
a podcast interview from MileHiCon 2011′ up at Machine Readable. was fun; I’m always kind of awed, talking to DJs who know what they’re doing, who can keep a conversation going, who have done actual research beforehand, all that. or, to say better: I’m the most useless keep-aliver of a conversation ever (unless we’re talking specific years of trucks, or violence I’ve seen done to animals, or books of any kind, or horror movies), so, ha…
is the NYT bestselling author of 30 or so books, +350 stories, some comic books, 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. More 