Let’s see. Do I have quick news bites to share? I don’t think many. I will note that Wanderers was listed (with some glorious company in the form of Seanan McGuire, Cadwell Turnbull, Caitlin Starling, Kameron Hurley, Victor LaValle, and oh yeah Stephen King) as one of the top sci-fi / fantasy / horror books of […]
I like to talk about the difficulties of being a writer — and woe, for there are many, some keyed to specific stages of being a writer, others that are arguably more universal as you climb the peaks and suffer the valleys. Here’s one that’s been a piece of gristle in my teeth for a […]
HEY WHAT’S UP, FRANDOS. Figured I’d pop in and say hi, talk about what’s going on here in this part of the Word Mines. Down in the dark. With the writhing things and the gently humming stones. First up, I’ve got two stories in the Nightfire audio horror anthology Come Join Us By The Fire. Nightfire is […]
Life brings a steady stream of news, good and ill, and so today I bring you a fistful of each — which to open first? I suppose a spoonful of sugar, and all that. Wait, do I have a spoonful in the fistful? I think I’m mixing metaphors. WHATEVER. The good news: this weekend I’ll […]
Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. […]
My mother, Christine Wendig, passed away a week ago today. And though I usually rankle at that phrase — “passed away” — it feels somewhat appropriate here. I note that sometimes death feels like watching someone drift farther and farther from shore, with you standing on the land, and them on the water, and ahead […]