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Richard Bowes on "The Margay's Children".

Charles Tan's excellent interviews with contributors to The Beastly Bride continue with Steve Berman about his story "Thimbleriggery and Fledglings" and Midori Snyder about her story "The Monkey Bride".
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Charles Tan has been interviewing all the nominees for the Shirley Jackson Award...his interview with me about Poe and Lovecraft Unbound has just gone up at The Shirley Jackson Awards blog .

Gregory Frost interviewed about "The Comeuppance of Creegus Maxin.

(I'm in Florida this week and although was supposed to have wifi, so far I'm still on dial up so I unless the isp can get the wireless working, I won't be posting much.)

Some new material has just been posted about various books that are recently out.

First up, is a The Big Idea column I wrote for John Scalzi's blog, Whatever. It's about my newest anthology, just out from Prime: Digital Domains, which collects a sampling of stories (some never before in print) that I edited at OMNI Online, Event Horizon, and SCIFICTION.

Also, the third Charles Tan interview with The Beastly Bride contributors is up and this time it's with Jeffrey Ford

And there's a little blurb about The Beastly Bride called Author's Spotlight posted on the BEA (Book Expo) site. It features a painting of me done by my friend Sarah Clemens (I don't know where they found the image).

I'll be attending BEA May 26th and 27th--more about that a little later, with my signing schedule.

Charles Tan is interviewing the contributors to The Beastly Bride for SF Signal. His first interview is posted today and it's with Terra L. Gearhart-Serna, whose first published story "Coyote and Valorosa" appears in the book.

A special thank you to Veronica Schanoes who brought Terra's work to our attention.

I and the other Stoker nominees were asked two questions about what the nomination means to us and if we think it can help our careers. Here's how we responded on Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews

Last night was KGB with Sarah Micklem and Alisa Kwitney (the latter, Bob Sheckley's daughter, someone I've known since she was 14 --although I can't remember, she says we met then). Both readers were excellent and the audience was appreciative--photos as soon as I get a few last ids sorted. Photos of the event


Kimball Johnson, a filmmaker who was at World Fantasy and hoping to sell a genre series to a cable channel, interviewed me with a few of my Lovecraft Unbound contributors there. We made an appointment to film some more when they were coming to NYC to meet with publishers: Orbit and Tor.

He wanted to film me at KGB and then interview me the next day (today) around my neighborhood. He was unobtrusive at KGB, only bringing a small camera and not his cameramen or big equipment. I told him earlier via email that he could not come up to my apartment to see where I work because it's just too much of a mess and there wouldn't be room anyway...So I suggested the High Line --and he wanted me to bring a writer along so I asked Rick Bowes to accompany us.

Kimball and Rick picked me up in the afternoon, and we picked up his sons and all the equipment from their van around the corner and hiked to the High Line. It was drizzly and I hadn't been there before in bad weather but as I suspected it was lovely. And very few people.

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This was done while I was in Montreal and very much on they fly. Luckily, Annalee gave me a chance to look over her transcript when I got home so it's not totally incoherent, but there are still some sections strung together that do come across...strangely. Trying to talk about sf/f/and horror in the same 20 minute interview is tough. (so yeah. I'm making excuses!)

On the art of Editing

Jeff VanderMeer graciously had Laird Barron interview me about Poe on his amazon blog
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