Tag Archives: vampires
Read Horror: The vampire is not himself
On the emasculation of the vampire … an excellent column by Simon Marshall-Jones over at the wonderful Read Horror.
I remember, many, many years ago now (over 35, if you must know), badgering my mother into buying me
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Sale!
Sold a story to Russell at Ticonderoga Publications for the Dead Red Heart anthology. It’s my first ever vampire story (may well be my last) and once again I’m ToC buddies with LL Hannett, whose “White and Red in the Black” will scare the crap out of you.
“Sun Falls” features Barry the Vampire King and not your average kind of
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So, I've been thinking …
… about evolution and because it’s me, it’s not about the usual, ordinary, everyday kind of evolution. It’s about the evolution of monsters. The question I put to y’all is this:
Are we soon to see the Zombie Superhero?
Or has there already been one? I’ve seen some Marvel Zombies stuff in my surfing of t’intertubes, but did not find it convincing.
Talk
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The Intern!!
Just discovered this and I now heart The Intern – lives here http://internspills.blogspot.com/2009/06/hot-publishing-trendz-09.html.
Friday, June 19, 2009
hot publishing trendz ’09
Hot tips fresh from the past 5-6 editorial and pub board meetings:
-Vampires are IN.
-“me”-related books are OUT. (“it isn’t all about you any more! now it’s about “us”!)
-Twelve-step book are IN
-superfoods are on their way OUT.
-simplicity and simple living are IN
Do
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On Visiting the Vampires
Blood test day again this morning (keeping track of the weight loss stuff), so off I toddle to the Vampire’s Nest to enable them to remove a couple of vials of my ichor.
I arrive and there are five other people in the waiting room – not so bad – and like all kinds of waiting rooms you get the whole
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