Reading Steven Hall’s frankly amazing The Raw Shark Texts (once again, I am last to the party), I’m having my expectations banged about in the most pleasant way, and puts me in mind of other recent mindscrews I’ve experienced. You know the books I mean: the literary brain squeezes, the … Continue reading
Derek Newman-Stile of the terrific website Speculating Canada often goes above and beyond the call of duty. What do I mean by that? Well, how about creating discussion questions for Husk? I haven’t even done that, and I wrote the freaking thing! [The following was originally posted on Speculating Canada on … Continue reading
I recently had a chance to talk (email-wise) with Derek Newman-Stile of the amazing Canadian genre blog Speculating Canada, a website chock full of Canadian science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and other what-have-yous. Derek is a tireless reviewer and a peerless interviewer, as I found out, and while my fingers were nigh-exhausted … Continue reading
What can I say? I haven’t been updating this blog nearly as often as I should. Between redesigning it (still in process as of this date), my jobs, my writing; sometimes it’s all I can do to squeeze in five hours to watch TV. I’m only human! Yet in that time … Continue reading
It has come to pass; I have conquered another media format. After my triumphs in the publishing world, followed closely by mastery of online social media, I now take the first bold step into the world of audio. Which means, of course, that the audiobook version of Husk is now ready … Continue reading
When I recently ended the late, lamented (by me, anyway) Shelf Monkey blog, I also shut down my habit of publicly reviewing whatever works struck my fancy. This has actually allowed me to increase my reading; amazing how much you get through when you don’t take notes. But I’ve read some … Continue reading
