90 Day Noveltopia – Day 20
Other people get the flu. Writers take Pseudoephedrine. 1000 words. Plus I’ve been dreaming a lot lately. Always happens when I start a new work, and the uppers help.
Writing the Weird restarts on Sept 22 at LitReactor.
I love teaching this class. It can get wiggy. Some new material for a new group of talented writers pushing the boundaries of the heart and mind—I learn more from them every time.
American Monster nominated for Wonderland Award
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.
How to write a novel in 90 days: T= – 6
Later start than I would have liked for reasons not so much sleep related, but because we watched the recording of True Detective Ep7 “Black Maps and Hotel Rooms” when we got home after going to dinner. I really can’t see what getting Ray and Ani together will do for the story, and I can…
How to write a novel in 90 days: t = -7
How to write a novel in 90 days? This is me, reporting for preliminary duty, hot coffee and cold pizza on hand. Excited to be starting. To be writing and planning and about to enter this 90 Day vortex of the soul. No time to explain, because fact is I only have two hours before…
Tobias Carroll’s Weird Primer up at Lit Hub
Tobias Carroll, Volume 1 Brooklyn founder, talked to some of us about weird stuff at Lit Hub.
Dreadful Daughters: Women Writing the Weird II
This came out a while ago, but just unearthed my contributor copies which look pretty sexy. Great cover art work by Ashlyn Fenton, and works by Tantra Bensko, RAchell Kendall, Nancy Collins, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Deb Hoag, Janis Butler Holm, Nikki Guerlain, and Peg Wheeler, among so many others. My story, “Going Down” is there,…
Weird Fiction Review does American Monster
This review dropped today. Unending thanks to Weird Fiction Review, a publication I’ve been following forever, and Seb Doubinsky (Goodbye Babylon, and most recently, White City) a writer I’ve been reading forever. That picture is out the window of the Surfliner between San Diego and LA, the ride that got it all started.
States of Terror II
Thrilled to have been asked to contribute a story to States of Terror II—inspiring company like Stephen Graham Jones, Karen Joy Fowler, Bradley Sands, Zach Wentz and a bunch of others I don’t yet know about. Coming out in June, I think.
Weird Interview drops at Entropy Magazine.
Gabino Iglesias, writer, interviewer, reviewer, world-record breaking reader, hit me up over at Entropy Magazine with some Big Questions.