John Barnes Well Bitten 2

Here's John Barnes's latest The Well-Bitten Hand over at Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly.

Tom Piccirilli Interview at The Plumbers' Union

Tom Piccirilli has another interview up, this time at Allan Guthrie's site (click here to read the interview).

Here's how Tom describes Allan and his site:

Here's a new interview with me, done by the very hip Scotsman Allan Guthrie, author of such brilliant crime novels as Hard Man, Kiss Her Goodbye, and the forthcoming Savage Night for his uber-cool website Noir Originals.

While you're at his site, check it out at length. He's got tons of interviews, reviews, and info for all your crime fiction needs.

The Tems at the Denver Book Mall - March 16, 2008

Melanie and Steve Tem continue their whirlwind tour for The Man on the Ceiling (10% discount) on Sunday, March 16, 2008, 3:00 PM at the Denver Book Mall, 32 Broadway (between 1st Avenue and Ellsworth), Denver, 303-733-3808. They will be talking and signing about their novel-length expansion of their 2000 novella of the same name, which won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award, which is the only work ever to win all three.

Crossword Puzzle - Stephen's Library

Let's peruse Stephen's Library today. Get nice and comfy with a steaming hot mug of hot chocolate - I'm pretty sure it wards off vampires.

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Shimmer

Shimmer is a magazine of speculative fiction whose connection to Colorado is via its editor E. Catherine Tobler (the editor-in-chief is Beth Wodzinski from, I believe, Utah for those keeping score at home). The magazine comes out quarterly as both an ezine via a PDF file (at a discounted rate) and a hardcopy magazine. You can purchase it in either format from its website (just click here). The remarkable cover "Penny’s Grave" is by multi-award-winning artist John Picacio. All of the art in this issue is stunning, and as it just so happens, this is their art issue. And so they went about selecting stories in a different manner than usual. As their website says:

For this issue, the art comes first. We selected art, and then invited some Shimmery favorites to write stories inspired by the images.

Ben Turns 21

Today is my son's 21st birthday. Wow, can you believe it? Okay, you probably can but it's pretty weird to me as I'm quite sure I got out of college only a few years ago. I can't be more than, like, 28 myself. What? I'm 44? Holy crap.

Happy birthday, Ben!

E. Catherine Tobler Honors Poe

E. Catherine Tobler sold her short story "Beyond Porch and Portal" to Ellen Datlow for an anthology tentatively called Poe: New Tales inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, that will be published by Solaris in 2009 to honor Poe's Bicentennial. As E. Catherine says:

I love working with Ellen; she's a gem.

Crossword Puzzle - Creature Feature

This crossword puzzle ventures into the dark realm of the things that go bump in the night and is called Creature Feature.

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Tom Piccirilli Interview at Nossa Morte

Tom Piccirilli has an interview up (and over) at Nossa Morte.

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Christopher M. Salas's Debut Novel Gets 2nd Edition

Christopher M. Salas's debut novel Dark Eclipse: Rise of an Era will be re-released as a second edition pretty soon from One Level Higher publishing. Look for his follow-up World Abomination later in 2008.

Here's a blurb about Book I:

Centuries after the first Era of Darkness, the Demonixa reemerge from the ashes of the charred throne of Morgmodeus, their fallen King. Seeking to restore his father's grip of tyranny on the Bytiluna star system, Carnmassiere the second son of Morgmodeus, develops a replica of the doomsday weapon that ended his father's reign; the Eclipse. Now with the Eclipse at his grasp, the light which was restored to the universe is once again threatened.

Left Coast Crime, March 6 - 9, 2008

Left Coast Crime is in Colorado this year at the Adam's Mark hotel from March 6 - 9, 2008. The guests include Stephen White, Michael Masliah, Elaine Viets, Joanne Pence, and Parnell Hall. Rather than come up with something witty and off-the-wall, I'll just reiterate what's on the Con page, which I stole from their website:

Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, for mystery fans. It is held during the first quarter of the calendar year in Western North America, as defined by the Mountain Time Zone and all time zones westward to Hawaii.

Win Scott Eckert Gets his Podcast Pulp On

February 11, 2008. Join Win Scott Eckert for the following podcast at 7 pm Pacific / 10 pm Eastern time at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Geekerati.

For many young readers, the discovery of the adventures of Doc
Savage, John Carter, the Spider, the Shadow, or Richard Benson can
lead to a life time love affair with literature of all kinds. Our
guest Win Eckert, and host Bill Cunningham, are two individuals who
are continuing in the noble tradition of action storytelling. They
will be discussing the 'Chronicles' series by Moonstone Books in
addition to the Shadowmen project of Black Coat Press.

The podcast will be available as an mp3 download after the show, both from the Geekerati website and from iTunes.

Crossword Puzzle - That's Funny

This is freakin' hilarious ... or rather the topic of the theme is, hence the title That's Funny.

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Sink Your Teeth (yes, I really just wrote that) Into a Carrie Vaughn Interview

Yo, dawg (my wife makes me watch Idol. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it like peanut butter and jelly) check it out. Carrie Vaughn has an interview up on Love Vampires, a site about, you know, vampires.

Crossword Puzzle - Double Feature

Can you smell the popcorn? Here comes your Saturday matinee Double Feature. Of course, if you're in Denver, that means one of the Landmark theatres because they use real butter on their popcorn. Good, good stuff.

I'm sorry, where was I? Oh, please enjoy this crossword puzzle. Please!

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Bruce Holland Rogers Interview

And as it goes, I was researching James Van Pelt's post (below) when I stumbled upon this interview with Bruce Holland Rogers that's on the same Flash Fiction Online website.

James Van Pelt Floats Before Recess

James Van Pelt sold two short stories recently. The first, "Floaters," went to Talebones while the second, "Just Before Recess," was a short-short sold to Flash Fiction Online.

NO Stories for All Seasons IN FEBRUARY

Due to a late concellation, there will be no Stories for All Seasons in February. March, however, is right on target.