American Monster nominated for Wonderland Award

ByJSB August 12, 2015

Win-win: Thank you so much to the voters at Bizarro Central for this Wonderland Award nod. I have a literary crush on all the nominees, so I’m basking in the total glow.

Best books of 2018 – LitReactor Staff Pics.

ByJSB January 8, 2019

Best books of 2018? I read very few books last year. I don’t know why I read so little. The ones I did were mainly for work. I read a lot of student work, edited manuscripts for clients and my own. Getting Collision edited and ready for printing took a lot of my time, partly…

Alfred Kubin’s illustration for Der Orchardeengartin

ByJSB July 16, 2014January 8, 2015

Another illustration from Der Orchareengarten by the great Alfred Kubin, who wrote the surrealist novel, The Other Side (Die Andere Seite) in 1908, which he also illustrated (below) adapting some of the drawings he’d prepared for Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem when Meyrink hit a snag. Kind of like when the money for the Halo movie…

Writing the Weird is back again at LitReactor – see you there.

ByJSB February 23, 2016

Bring me your dreams and your nightmares, your broken bunnies and inflatable friends, your pocket universes and hero’s gurneys and sentence fragments and eldritch ellipses. I promise to make you uncomfortable. Still time to sign up.

Shitty Vampire

ByJSB May 17, 2014May 17, 2014

I came across this the other day. My poem Shitty Vampire in Trunk Books Vol II: Blood. This is a cool little book, full of great art and text. The beautiful image next to my poem is by senVoodoo. The launch was awesome. Very shmancy, the shmanciest I’ve been to. But strange, too. A huge…

Launch of Alan Baxter’s ‘Bound’

ByJSB July 11, 2014

Alan Baxter goes one on one with Margo Lanagan about brain vomit, gargoyle sex and the art of the warrior writer. In addition to buying Alan’s book, I caught up with a bunch of people, and met Margo Lanagan for the first time. “Singing My Sister Down” is possibly one of the great stories of…

States of Terror launch in San Diego

ByJSB November 2, 2015

My uncle and aunt drive us down to the launch and they are there in the back with my husband and cousin – sirens and choppers overhead as soon as I start to read – I’m last. I talk about the Proctor Valley monster with Lizz Huerta after the reading. She grew up with it….

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