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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.
Tag Archives: neil gaiman
On Approaching Authors for ‘Stuff’ – Part Deux
I think I’m going to have to add a couple of things to the post On Approaching Authors for ‘Stuff’.
1. When asking an author for stuff, don’t make it as part of a very obvious bulk email to a bunch of other authors. A scattergun technique is disrespectful and
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The Jones Drive-by: Stephen Jones
Painting by Les Edwards
Few things are more frightening than an awesomely put-together horror anthology … except, possibly, the person who puts said anthology together. Coz I mean, really, dude! The brain that can put together a labyrinth of fear is awesome indeed. In the annals of editors, legendary
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Tagged A whole slew of Horror Best Ofs, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, clive barker, Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle, Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths, drive-by interview, Hellbound Hearts, kim newman, Mammoth Book of Vampires, neil gaiman, Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman, Song of the Necromancer, stephen jones, Steve Rasnic Tem, The Essential Monster Movie Guide, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels & Heavenly Hosts, Zombie Apocalypse!
Meanwhile, over at SF Signal: The Dream Anthology
The delightful John DeNardo at SF Signal asked a few people to pick and choose for their dream anthology, citing what you’d choose and why. The answers were so big, they had to split the post in two.
Mine is here, as is that of Nancy
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Tagged A.M. Dellamonica, aimee bender, angela carter, china mieville, delia sherman, Emma Donoghue, gavin grant, Genevieve Valentine, Ian Sales, Jason Sanford, john connolly, kaaron warren, Karen Burnham, karen russell, Kelley Eskridge, kelly link, kim newman, le fanu, ll hannett, Marghanita Laski, margo lanagan, Nancy Jane Moore, nancy kress, neil gaiman, peter m ball, Robert Sabella, robert shearman, Saki, Sanford Allen, Scott A. Cupp, sf signal, Steven H. Silver, Tanith Lee, Tinkoo Valia, violet malan
I’d like to pay for that with a sonnet, okay?
“You’re cool with that, right? Yeah, I know the grocery bill is $120 – so how about three sonnets? You’re not cool with that? Dude, you used to be cool.”
And so, another starving artist is thrown out of Woolworths or Coles or IGA, etc. I bring you this
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The Afternoon Drive-by: Kyle Cassidy
I first saw Kyle’s work when (thanks to one of those serendipitous Google moments) I found Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in their Creative Spaces – which is a truly wonderful documentation of, well, spec-fic writers in their natural habitats (no, not
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Meanwhile, over at Ecstatic Days
Tagged chocolate, ecstatic days, kim wilkins, neil gaiman, rejections, submissions
ToC Australis Imaginarium
Tehani at FableCroft has announced the final table of contents for Australis Imaginarium:
“Once a Month, on a Sunday” by Ian McHugh
“Night Heron’s Curse” by Thoraiya Dyer
“Hunter of Darkness, Hunter of Light” by Michael Pryor
“A Pig’s Whisper” by Margo Lanagan
“Stealing Free” by Deborah Biancotti
“Suffer the Little Children” by Rowena
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Connect, Don't Network
Some very wise words about the art of blogging. This article (via Brendan D Carson) may contain traces of Gaimanesque commonsense genius.
“Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk,” says author Neil Gaiman, winner of the Twitter category at the inaugural Author Blog Awards given last month in London. Gaiman
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The Writer
What is expected of you when you ‘become’ a writer? Or rather, you’re published – you’ve received an advance, got copies of your book sitting on the shelf, people are asking for your autograph, and dear old Aunt Enid has stopped muttering about you being a drain on society
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