Scribbler, Animal Welfare Nut, Pixel Herder
From the monthly archives:
I was shooting for ten sites when I wrote this last night, but overshot the goal due to consumption of fermented products… Anywho, if you know me at all then you know that I have a certain fondness for beer, particularly of the stout and porter varieties. To keep up on quality and craft beer [...]
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Authors (and friends) John Langan and Paul Tremblay sold an anthology, “Creature! Thirty Years of Monsters,” to Sean Wallace at Prime Books. Stephen Barbara at the Foundry Literary + Media made the sale. From their new Creature! WordPress.com blog dedicated to the anthology: Creatures! Thirty Years of Monster is to be an anthology of short [...]
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The only thing bleaker than the future shown in “Repo Men” is the sense that a potentially interesting premise got hijacked by a lackluster screenplay, shrug-inspiring acting performances, and nonsensical uses of gore and bloodshed. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, “Repo Men” portrays a near future where Remy (Jude Law) and his partner, Jake (Forest Whitaker), [...]
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Peter Straub Essay on Genre Fiction I got this little gem via Jack Haringa (a.k.a. Monsieur Crankypants). Like most horror authors, I’m a huge fan of Peter Straub and an even bigger fan when he lends his pen to non-fiction on the subjects of literature and genre. Click here to read Peter Straub’s the essay. [...]
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On Facebook, I just got finished wading through another wave of “Fan Page” requests from unknown and little-known authors. I also started a new policy of just deleting these people from my Friends list unless I know them personally (in which case I send a polite “cut it out” note). Jeff Vandermeer‘s BOOKLIFE makes some [...]
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