A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre is, ultimately, a good book about a great story. It is only “good,” in and of itself, rather than “great,” because while parts of it are amazing, and all of it tells an amazing story, too much of it tells an [...]
It seems I got a day job again, and practically abandoned this blog, as well as Boiled Hard. So I never mentioned that my military-noir-anticorporate zombie apocalypse The Panama Laugh was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, given by the Horror Writers of America. This is the main award given for the genre of [...]
(This post first appeared on Tiny Nibbles – LINK NSFW) Boston indie publisher Circlet Press has been publishing erotic science fiction and fantasy since the early 1990s. One of my very favorite books they ever published was Nymph, a little hardbound collection of linked erotic stories by Francesca Lia Block. Cooked up in [...]
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Posted 05 February 2012
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This happened a week or two ago, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to keep up with my blog posts. Anyway…My debut novel The Panama Laugh is on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association! I’m not a “nominee” yet, and I’m definitely not a “finalist,” [...]
Over at The Night Bazaar, I’ve posted my final column: This is my final column for The Night Bazaar. The blog was conceived as a way to promote writers who had books coming out from Night Shade in 2011, and next year it’ll be promoting writers who have books coming out from Night Shade in [...]
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Posted 30 December 2011
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From this week’s Night Bazaar column, my second-to-last: This week’s topic is ”What was the year like for you as a writer.” Such a topic is dangerous for me. It encourages me to navel-gaze, something I’m far too good at. So, honoring the mood of the season, I’ll try to keep it moderately brief, and hopefully [...]
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Posted 23 December 2011
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From my new column at The Night Bazaar: Genre Trends for 2012 I’m notoriously bad at staying on top of trends in any medium. This is true of music, literature, art and design, technology, movies, TV…Sometimes I’m way ahead of the curve; sometimes I’m well behind it. I joined Friendster and Tribe before Facebook existed [...]
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Posted 16 December 2011
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In case you haven’t seen it…here. These two girls in Japan are the future of dance. Just thought you’d like to know. You’re welcome. Incidentally, the whole thing goes on for five minutes and seventeen seconds. You may get the idea after considerably less than that, but believe me…the fact that they can [...]
There’s so much I find overwhelmingly creepy about these Rocky Horror Picture Show matryoshka dolls on Etsy. Maybe it’s because in my RHPS matryoshka nightmares, Frank ‘N’ Furter, the biggest doll, could be seen here as sort of devouring the smaller dolls, Jonah-and-the-whale style — starting, disturbingly enough, with Riff Raff…who doesn’t even really seem [...]
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Posted 13 December 2011
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I’m excited to announce that my very good friend Violet Blue has released a Kindle edition, fully revised and updated, of Fetish Sex: An Erotic Guide for Couples, which was published some years back in print by Daedalus Publishing. The new edition has expanded chapters, a new story and a breathtaking new cover by Steve [...]
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Posted 11 December 2011
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