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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
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A milestone of sorts
Sourdough and Other Stories, my beautiful limited edition hard cover from Tartarus Press has sold out!
It’s a bit like your kid growing up and leaving home.
Watch this space …
Over at Weird Fiction Review, which has returned from hols with a tan …
… Elwin Cotman writes about Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Urban Hells.
A wide shot of four skyscrapers, pitch-black silhouettes. The camera pans back, revealing the clouds that cling insignificantly to the buildings, while below the city spreads out endlessly. It is daytime. It will be night soon enough. Over the ambient soundtrack,
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Considering Weird Ink
Over at the Weird Fiction Review, Lisa L. Hannett talks about Weird Ink, examining and apreciating Beardsley, Gorey and Niffenegger in all their weird glory.
Go here.
Dead Red Heart review
Over at the SF Site, the delightful Mario Guslandi reviews Ticonderoga Publications’ Dead Red Heart.
And says nice things 
. Here.
Weird stuff happens when you’re asleep …
Or rather, The Weird Stuff.
The delightful and slightly (okay, very) Weird Jeff VanderMeer introduces me at the Weird Fiction Review.
Behind the scenes, Angela Slatter has been working as WFR’s managing editor by, among other efforts, answering queries, working with writers on solicited submissions, and helping coordinate our forthcoming 101
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Short Story Doctor
This is the Short Story Doctor (art courtesy of the most talented Kathleen Jennings).
Adorable, ain’t she?
You just can’t see the flensing knives.
She will be making a more permanent appearance very soon.
Tagged short story doctor
Popty ping, your Fry is ready
Thanks to you, Mr Fry, I now know about the ‘popty ping’.
Last night’s QI was wonderful.
I think we got the pick of the Australian comedians on the panel last night – Wil Anderson (I think you’re quite hot, Wil, but please don’t wear skinny jeans) and Colin Lane
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Tagged alan davies, colin lane, genevieve morris, popty ping, qi, stephen fry, wil anderson
The Good Science Fiction Drive-by: Gardner Dozois
Seriously?
Do I really need to introduce Gardner Dozois? The Gardner Dozois? Really? The multi Hugo and Nebula winning science fiction editor and author? The frequently partnering Jack Dann in crime of some sort Gardner Dozois?
Really?
All I will say is that he prefers donuts, dunked.
1. What’s the best thing about
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Thing of interest
Today’s thing of interest is Gio Clairval’s post over here about participating in the VanderMeer’s latest gigantic project, The Weird.
THE WEIRD: I have participated in one of the largest thematic anthology projects of all time, and I’m still alive!
I translated for this anthology:
Julio Cortazar,
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Tagged gio clairval, jeff and ann vandermeer, the weird
At long last
Here it is, the damned thing. All bound and delivered to the postgrad office, with only one minor heart attack when I found the doors of said office closed. This is, of course, not the end. There will be final seminar in three weeks, then adding or subtracting
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