Month: March 2007
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Crawford Award
Congratulations to M. Rickert, whose first collection Map of Dreams is this year’s winner of the Crawford Award! The Crawford Award is given to a fantasy novelist whose first fantasy book was published during the preceding 18 months. It’s one of several awards presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and is…
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Vintage
If you’re looking for a good ghost story, you should buy Steve Berman’s new novel Vintage. Steve sent me an advanced reader’s copy of the book a little while ago, and it was remarkable: a supernatural love story that’s scary as hell.
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Ytown on Stage
Last night at the Stage was just the most wonderful experience. There were so many people there, so much talent and creativity and expression, and so much of it just really really good. My friend Brooke does the most amazing things for this city and I sometimes wonder if enough people actually understand it. I…
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I’ll be there.
Stop by and have some fun this Friday at The Stage at the Oakland Center for the Arts. I’ll be reading a short short story called “The Flood” (which is being published in Foundation’s 100th issue this August), and there’ll be comedians, dramatic monologues, crazy improvised hallucinogenic music-video imitations, tap dancing, independent film trailer releases, poetry,…
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Work in progress meme
Via Ms. Bond, a work in progress meme: Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us…
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Infamous people from Youngstown
The title of this entry is also the terms someone typed into a search engine today, which led them to stumble into my journal here. I almost choked laughing, then typed the terms into Google myself and not only was my website here a results entry, it was the first one. I suppose this is one…
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The Language of “The Language of Moths”
I’ve been asked to write a short essay on “The Language of Moths” for the Nebula Awards, which has placed me in the awkward position of talking about one of my own stories, which I don’t usually do, or like to do, for various reasons. This is my first stab at it, though. *Revised with…
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Interfictions
I’ve certainly been writing a lot about anthologies that are out or that are coming out in the near future recently, and here’s another one, Interfictions, due out next month from Small Beer Press. It has a gorgeous cover, and the editors, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, have gone above and beyond and around and…
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Best American Fantasy
Another anthology of the “Year’s Best Fantasy” you may be asking? Yes, but, if we can judge by the contents of the recommended reading list for the Best American Fantasy, which has gone live recently, it’s probably not like any of the current anthologies that present themselves as Year’s Bests. My story, “The Creation of Birds”, which appeared…
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Disasters happen
The new issue of Ideomancer has appeared, featuring the previously mentioned hyper-text project Ben Rosenbaum arranged between himself, myself, Elad Haber’s self, Megan McCarron’s self, Greg Van Eekhout’s self, Tim Pratt’s self, and Kiini Ibura Salaam’s self. Skip on over to read “23 Small Disasters”, and let us know what you think (unless you hate…