My movie review of the geriatric action-adventure film, RED, is now online at Cinema Knife Fight. Just click here to give it a read.
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My movie review of THE TOWN (both starring and directed by Ben Affleck) went live at Cinemaknifefight.com last night at midnight. Just click here to give it a read.
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Check out friend, author, critic, and fellow aging punk’s writing class at Grub Street in Boston, MA. Noted fiction editor, Stoker and International Horror Guild Award-winner, crime and SF writer Michael Marano will be offering a new class this fall on “Writing the Smart Page-Turner” at Grub Street, Inc., a non-profit creative writing center dedicated [...]
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I’ve known both L.L. Soares and Michael Arruda for about ten years now and through several iterations of their uniquely formatted film review column, Cinema Knife Fight. I was flattered when they asked to have me on as an occasional contributor. My niche area will be thrillers and films that don’t fit squarely in the [...]
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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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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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So, it’s been a while since I’ve put anything in this blog. That’s mostly because of the life static arising out of the holidays, work, and family. Well, the good news is that two out of those three complicating factors have been eliminated. Yes … the holidays are over. No … I didn’t kill off [...]
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I’m going to post more on ReaderCon as I get this blog going, but for now, here’s the books and magazines I purchased in the dealers room this past weekend. ++++ BOOKS ++++ LAST DAYS by Brian Evenson (Underland Press) THE SHADOW YEAR by Jeffrey Ford (Harper Perennial) REWIRED: POST-CYBERBPUNK ANTHOLOGY by James Patrick Kelly [...]
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