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Where I'll be living now, while I'm on the web. Please update your RSS feeds. Please drop by and visit. Kick the tires and rummage around in the medicine cabinet. I need some feed back. Get yer butt over there. Click here to EXPERIENCE THE NEW JHJ..ER...EXPERIENCE.

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Yesterday, I appeared on AUTHOR Magazine in an audio interview with Brian Mercer. In the interview, I talk about writing, what does and doesn't work for me as a writer, how I landed my agent, Stacia Decker, my process, my philosophy, and a lot of other writerly stuff. It's hard for me to listen to, because I stammer, some. And everyone keeps saying I have an accent? I don't have an accent.You can

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Yes, I'm late. Looks like we'll have to do a winter issue to make up for my tardiness. I know. But here's the new cover, hope you like it.Nipples.

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From "Writers who don't read" on Salon.com.There is also something to this growing disconnect between writing and reading that Steve Himmer touched on in his excellent piece that appeared at The Millions: "Yet I can't help but remember that reading -- both the careful selection of books and being given enough privacy to quietly read them myself -- was among the first freedoms I had."

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Today I was one of a panel of authors in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette's Style section. What I learned from the exercise: do NOT try to be funny when speaking to journalists. Due to size requirements and whatnot, they (or their editors) will edit out either the set-up or the punch line of any joke, leaving you standing there with your dick hanging out. It's not their fault, honestly. But still.

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Just completed a cover for my friend John Rector and his new collection of stories, The Walls Around Us. Rector's probably one of the best writers working today, long or short form. It was a pleasure and an honor to design a cover for his collection.Get it at the 'Zon. Here.

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Painting by Laura Raborn Got some writerly friends coming in during early September and I'm putting them up at the lakehouse. I don't think they know quite what they're getting into, yet, but they will soon. But I figured I'd give them a little preview of the lakehouse and they can call dibs on bedrooms and whatnot. The lakehouse is in Arkansas. It is called Rob-Bell, a funky portmanteau

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Airplane. The requisite artsy Instagram shot. Me and the legendary David G. Hartwell. Note: No one actually vomited on his shirt. It just normally looks like that. I had to beg John Scalzi NOT to do jazz hands. The pained expression on my face comes from my soul being stolen as the picture is taken. On the YA literature panel. I had more to say than I thought. In general, on all the panels,

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"A sumptuous Southern Gothic thriller steeped in the distinct American mythologies of Cthulhu and the blues . . . Southern Gods beautifully probes the eerie, horror-infested underbelly of the South." - The Onion AV on Southern Gods I just thought I should repeat that. ----- So, a few items of note, today. First off, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette's own Phillip Martin has said some really kind

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Two great reviews in this week. The first is from Jason Heller at The Onion AV. Yes, that's right. The Onion. He says, that Southern Gods is "a sumptuous Southern Gothic thriller steeped in the distinct American mythologies of Cthulhu and the blues." He goes on to say: But rather than degenerating into some retro-themed True Blood arc, Southern Gods cannily recycles real-life blues history,

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Next week, I'll be attending Context 24 in Columbus, Ohio. It looks like it's gonna be a great time and there are beaucoup great authors in attendance, including L.E. Modesitt and Seanan McGuire and many more. Here are my panels, if you're curious. Saturday, August 27 11 am: What Works in Young Adult Literature - Arena District Room 2 pm: Agents - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - German Village

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I've dipped my toes into the ebook waters with a short collection (25k words) of stories called Fierce as the Grave. It is only 99¢ and I've released it in hopes of turning on people to Southern Gods. If you liked Southern Gods, you might like this. If you liked Fierce as the Grave, you might like Southern Gods. See how that works? One hand washing the other. So, tell your friends. Tell your

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Over at John Scalzi's blog, he runs a series called The Big Idea. He was kind enough to let me reminisce about growing up being my father's shadow on hunting and fishing trips and how that affected me and consequently the gestation of Southern Gods. Go check it out and comment. It's a nice little essay. ----- In other news, Peter Andrew Leonard gave a glowing review of Southern Gods at his

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It's been seven days since the official release of Southern Gods. A lot of stuff has happened during that week. Let me recap it for you, in case you missed anything. MONDAY, AUGUST 1st Southern Gods was reviewed on Luca Veste's site, Guilty Conscience. He had to say this about SG: It's exceptionally smart and sharp. Towards the end, it has some of the most shocking moments I've ever read. This

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There comes a time in every journalist's career where it is better to just ask the questions and let the interview subject answers without any input from the interviewer. No fluffing the questions, no investiture of personality. Just bare bones and break-neck. This is that time. However, it wouldn't be a WHY I'M BADASS interview without a little preamble, so I offer you this. I took his advice

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I forgot that today was the official release of Southern Gods. The print date changed so many times that when the ebook date, i.e. the OFFICIAL release date, rolled around, it was almost old news to me. Almost.But now I'm just sitting here gobsmacked that I have a book released into the wilds. It's an exhilarating feeling.So, if you've been waiting for an ebook, you can get yours at the following

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I do not know enough about Martel to riff on where she hails from, though judging by her accent, it's far north of the Mason-Dixon line. I can tell you this, whatever I think about her accent, she does not give one fuck.For instance, we were at the World Horror Convention in Austin, Texas, and I was deep in my cups due to some good news - pretty damn good news - so I was understandably tight,

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On the night the copies of Southern Gods arrived at my home, I was puzzled at my lack of emotion regarding the event. Shouldn't I be feeling something? This is a landmark moment and all I can think about is lying down on the couch after work and closing my eyes. Having dinner or a drink.Then I received this email and everything was put into perspective.By now, you're home, you've opened the box,

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Benoît choking out some fool because of how ugly his freakin' sweater isConsider the French. Wait. Don't. Consider the French Canadians. They're our tougher, hardier, more angry at having Elizabeth on their money and taking craps that don't float northern next door neighbors. They spend six months of the year wrasslin' polar bears and having fist-fights (where occasionally a hockey game breaks

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Using the random number picker I have determined the winners to the WHY I'M BADASS giveaway.They are:Kent Gowran and the unknown and mysterious Shari.Please email me with your physical address and I will send you a signed copy of Southern Gods! My email is jhj (at) atomictomato (dot) com.Thanks for playing.That is all.

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This week we featured four true badasses in the WHY I'M BADASS interview series. They were:Molly TanzerWeston OchseDonna MooreMatthew C. FunkWe're also running a contest so that you might win a signed copy of Southern Gods. All you gotta do is comment on any of the WHY I'M BADASS interviews of last week (and be a U.S. Resident) to win a copy.WHY I'M BADASS NewsI'm taking next week off on the WHY

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If you comment on any of this week's WHY I'M BADASS interviews, you are entered to win a signed copy of SOUTHERN GODS (U.S. Residents only). I'm giving away two copies. So, please, go comment and show some love to any of these interview subjects:Molly TanzerWeston OchseDonna MooreMatthew C. FunkI will announce winners on Sunday and mail books on Monday. Be the first of your friends to read

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Consider the tentacle, the most nimble and erotic of all aquatic and semi-aquatic creature's psuedopodia. It prods, yet it is sucky. Consider the human form, one of the most squishy of all the creatures of earth. Fluids and solids exude from every orifice, salty moisture seeps from the skin. Oils accumulate on the cilia-like hair, snot accretes within nostrils, wax forms within the ears. Down

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ART BY RUSS DICKERSONTennessee. Humpback humpback, crooked letter crooked letter. Wait. That's Mississippi.Okay, let's start over. Tennessee. Home to the Dollywood Mountains and the timeless classic, Hee-Haw. The land is covered verdant rolling hills, cradling Nashville to its ample bosom - the town that brought us Miley Cyrus and Garth Brooks and Regions Bank. Tennessee, known for the dental

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Scotland. The land of Scots. Gloomy. Full of bad food and native soil of Groundskeeper Willie. People talk funny there and don't wear any undergarments. Scotland, where sense is delivered through wallops to the head.Little known fact: I am of Clan Campbell which, in a masterstroke of betrayal, slew a goodly number of Clan MacDonald, uhm, that we had invited over for burgers or something. Sorry '

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He's a Miami Vice aficionado and a polymath... nay, he's a polymathlete. He loves his women like he loves his coffee, strong and with a sludgy bottom. He once, in a pepper eating contest with a Mexican Santa Muerta cult leader, defeated the mindless minions (of said cult leader) with his saliva, alone. His urine ranks higher on the Scoville scale than homocapsaicin.He's a fantastic, award-winning

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Selena. It is a name of mystery, a name of magic. It's slinky and silent. Like a catwoman. Sheesh, don't get me started on cats.Jo. Your slightly deranged cousin, on your mother's side, whom no one really knows what's wrong with, but there's talk that Vicki Sue, Jo's mother, might have been abnormally close to her brother, Joephus. Consanguinity problems.And Chambers. The name of the man who

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Alabama. Home of Bear Bryant and certain members of The Drive-By Truckers. The site of the battle of Mauvila where Tuscaloosa delivered an ass-whuppin' to Hernando de Soto during his quest to discover the cities of gold as described by Cabeza de Vaca. Home of the Redneck Riviera. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, as the band named after a dildo sang. Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lamb, the

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Numero dos in the WHY I'M BADASS interview series is Julie Summerell Teat. Julie is a internet wit, a badass who owns swords (which seems to be a theme - true badasses have swords) a mother of cute as hell chirren, a gardener and a helluva writer.Put yer hands together for Julie Summerell Teat.JHJ: Why are you badass? Please explain your badassery.JTS: I am badass because I can feed a family of

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Welcome Daniel O'Shea to WHY I'M BADASS. He's a father, a husband, a helluva writer. He has the finest reading voice I've ever heard. He's a tremendous looker (see above) and doesn't fuck around. He walks and writes. He loves the ladies and the ladies love him. He once wrote a novel in a month, in public, on his blog, just to make the rest of us look stupid. His mom and dad spoke Latin to him at

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I'm starting an interview series called WHY I'M BADASS. In it, I will ask you deep, penetrating, so-personal-I'm-invading-your-no-no-zone kind of questions.WHY I'M BADASS won't focus solely on authors - but there will be a shitload of those - there'll be musicians, artists, and whomever. Cops. Firemen and firewomen. Strippers. Social workers. Bureaucrats. Whatever. All stripes.Bottom line is, you

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Over at The Night Bazaar, I relate yet another anecdote and talk about my pet peeves in writing. And I draw a picture of a guy IN..."Another Loosely Related Anecdote to Our Assigned Topic"Enjoy.

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This looks fantastic. I love the type treatment of the title and the artwork is wonderful. It also makes me hungry for sushi.

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Over at The Night Bazaar, I tell the story of when I totally flipped out, batshit crazy-like, when I inadvertently stumbled upon my mom and dad watching the 1970's miniseries Salem's Lot.You think that's silly? I was freakin' ten years old. I wake up, go into the TV room and witness the above photo. You woulda totally freaked out, too.Don't lie.Anyway, go visit and comment.HERE.

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I'll be appearing alongside some greats of speculative fiction, of both today and yesteryear. I realize that it's a reprint of his story, but having a story of mine share the same pages as even a reprint of T.E.D. Kline's (cause he ain't writing anymore) is a total fanboy moment.Plus there's Ramsey Campbell, Charles Stross, and Bruce Sterling!Holy crap, just look at this list.Caitlin R. Kiernan -

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Well, it's been a long while since I've done one of these, so I figured I've had an enough accretion of small, piddly thoughts, observations, news and whatnot to let my electro-chemical pathways do their thing, unhindered.-------Best book I've read in a long time has now got a cover. Behold, Stephen Blackmoore's City of the Lost.Pre-order that bastardo right here. It really is an amazing book

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2011 has been a banner year for me. I've been sitting on this news for a while - uncomfortably sitting on it - and now I can share.Here's what Publishers Weekly Childern's Bookshelf Newsletter has to say:Andrew Karre at Carolrhoda Lab pre-empted John Hornor Jacobs’s The Incarcerado Trilogy, comprising The Twelve Fingered Boy, Incarcerado, and The End of All Things. The trilogy features two

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I've started researching my next novel, tentatively titled Seventeen Year Cicada. It's a ghost story set in a Japanese internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas, about a relocated family of Issei and Nisei and the struggles that go on internally, in the family. And past misdeeds.Anyway, I was telling my father about the novel and he said "Hold on," and went to the basement, and came back with this

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Last weekend was a doozy. I packed my family in the Honda and we drove up to St. Louis. It's a six hour drive so there was some inside-the-car drama. And it wasn't all about the kids, either. Mom and Dad can have inside-the-car drama too (hint, directions).We saw the arch, but we didn't stop to muck around underneath it.We walked the streets surrounding our awesome hotel.Word to the wise, if

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I'll be appearing at Noir @ The Bar in St. Louis tomorrow night, June 11th. I have absolutely no idea what I'll read, most likely something not noir.Also appearing will be Frank Bill, Aaron Michael Morales, Fred Venturini, Scott Phillips and Jed Ayres. Oh, and the bag wearing Malachi Stone.Should be interesting.Here's what the folks at Riverfront Times have to say about the event.Noir at the Bar

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Over at The Night Bazaar, ACEY and DEUCEY discuss standalone novels versus series. It is a deep, profound and slightly profane blog post.But there you have it. Pretty much par for the course around these parts.Go there and enjoy.

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I am a novelist.Strange to write that, but there it is. At varying points of my life – and even currently – I could make many similar statements: I am a father. I am a husband. I am a musician. I am a designer. I am an artist.All of these vocations are hard. Harder than most people who don’t do them – or don’t do them well – can believe. And success at any of those

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CLICK TO EMBIGGENSo I've started the follow-up to The Incorruptibles - my fantasy/western/alternate Roman history/demonpunk novel. Yeah, that one, in case you were confused.Been working on the map, some, thought I'd post it here for your edification.Maps are fun.

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Needle Magazine - Spring 2011 Issue is live. You can purchase it right HERE.I will cop to being the reason that Needle's a little late. Got a lot of stuff on my plate right now. But it is still, technically, spring, though it doesn't feel like it here in Little Rock, what with near 100º temperatures. But it is. So there.Big thanks go out to Naomi Johnson, Daniel O'Shea, Stephen Blackmoore and

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Yeah, I talk more about writing and stuff over at the Night Bazaar.I'd appreciate it if you left a comment, even if it's to abuse me. I'm used to that, anyway.Check it out here. "This List Goes to Eleven."

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CLICK TO EMBIGGENBehold, the absolutely stunning (and preliminary - they asked me to say that) cover art for Southern Gods.I cannot be happier about it. The folks at Night Shade have really outdone themselves with this one. My thanks to them all.

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On the whole, I don't like talking about writing rules. But rules are better than trying to "teach" someone how to write fiction - that's an impossibility. You can give pointers all day long but in the end, to become a writer you've got to read a lot, write a lot, and be a completer. Finish what you start. Many people are the first one, reading lots of books, and this leads them to believe that

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Over at The Night Bazaar, I outline my expenses, how I ain't coming off my lifestyle to pursue the dream of being a full-time writer, and I also tell you how much money I make (sorta).I gots kids to feed, mang. I gots bills to pay.CHECK IT OUT HERE.

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All about book covers. I reveal that I'll turn down cover work if you annoy me.Click here to check out the interview.

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Ed Kurtz has some nice things to say about Southern Gods over at his blog. Ed's a damn good writer himself. Check out his blog and Bleed, his first novel....if William Faulkner, Jim Thompson and H.P. Lovecraft had an orgiastic blood sacrifice ritual to honor the Old Ones in the Delta Swampland at the height of the muggy Deep South summer at midnight, Southern Gods would probably be the result.I

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Click picture to embiggen.

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Over at The Night Bazaar, I talk about the only other media I've written for. Music.I give you a few examples of my musical stylings.That is all.

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I've just returned from the World Horror Convention. I met lots of great people, many of whom were excited about the forthcoming release of Southern Gods from the incredible folks at Night Shade Books. I put a lot of ARCs in people's hands who needed (or didn't know they needed) them. It was really a magical weekend.I arrived Thursday, mid afternoon. I had stayed up too late the night before -

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I really need to write a round up about World Horror Convention. Everyone was excited about my forthcoming release from Night Shade Books. Got lots of great feedback from many industry professionals on the ARC and everyone was impressed and delighted with the work the kind folks at NSB have done for Southern Gods. I'm really excited to get that one out into the wilds of book buyer-dom and can't

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Over at The Night Bazaar, I blather on about meeting literary idols, the innate, recluse nature of writers. I talk about saying stupid things to people while I say stupid things to people, if you catch my meaning, what?Right-ho. Just pop over there and be the first chappie (or chappette) to comment and you'll receive as a prize my eternal gratitude. What could be more rare, more sought after?

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This weekend I'll be attending the World Horror Convention in Austin, Texas. Don't say you're going to a horror convention and mumble, otherwise people get the wrong idea.Anyway, I've been placed on my first panel, the "New Blood" panel, with my friend John Rector. I have no idea what they'll ask, or what silly things that will come out of my mouth, but I've resolved to be cool, meek, and try not

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The first item is I've placed a new banner ad on the blog to the right. It's for me. Click it and pre-order yerself a copy of my novel, Southern Gods.Second, for some reason, Amazon has marked down Southern Gods from $14.99 to $10.99. So snatch that sucker up at the reduced price, right? Just click the banner ad and it will take you to the appropriate page. That's how the internet works, see?Feel

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I have committed bloggery over at the Night Bazaar. Again.In this week's episode, I deal with creative energy, conserving it, and what a crappy industry advertising truly is.Go. Enjoy.Comment. I loves the comments. I will comment back at you. It'll be like tennis but without the yellow furry balls, unless you're male and jaundiced.View it here.

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I'm very excited to announce that my story, "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife", has been accepted for inclusion in Night Shade Books forthcoming September release The Book of Cthulhu. The table of contents hasn't been announced yet, but my story is all up in that biznatch.That, coupled with Southern Gods, will be my last hurrah in regards to Lovecraft, or Chambers.Acceptances feel good, people.

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New cover I did for the inimitable Bryan Smith. Just FYI, looks like a Kindle release of his first novel will be coming soon. More info here when I know it.Didn't try to get all fancy on this one. I kinda wish I dealt with the colors of the halftone screaming woman a little better and muted the text colors some. I will play with them when I have a chance.I am pleased with the slightly retro look,

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So, my dog was lost. We let her into the backyard and it turns out *somebody* hadn't shut the gate and I'm not saying it was anybody. But that gate was WFO. Hours pass, she doesn't come home and my kids are crying and I'm damn near crying because I love that frickin' dog. So I'm getting desperate and when I'm agitato, I have to DO SOMETHING so I make a lost dog poster and I'm about to go back to

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So I have a daughter. She's ten. And she's very, very bright and sometimes has impulse control issues. She always into something - which is a good thing. The challenge for us, as parents, is to keep her amazing imagination alive and well while getting her to buckle down and focus. On things like spelling and penmanship.So, my wife was spearheading a fundraiser for the school this weekend and was

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Stacia Decker of DMLA opines on social marketing/media and dragon/muscle car pr0n.Her name will forever be linked to dragon pr0n thanks to search engine indexing.Wait. I guess mine will be too.Drats.Go to the Night Bazaar and see what I'm talking about.Leave a comment for me and I'll love you for it. Love you long time.

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I love audiobooks. When I lived in Dallas and courted my wife, who lived in Little Rock, I drove back and forth two or three times a month, 4.5 hours one way. This was before iPods and while mp3s were known, digital audio wasn't ubiquitous.If it wasn't for a little place called An Earful of Books in Dallas - an audiobook rental place - I don't think our relationship would've survived. Weird, but

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Over at the Night Bazaar, we're all celebrating the release of Katy Stauber‘s REVOLUTION WORLD. And Katy is giving out two copies of REVOLUTION WORLD to folks who qualify. How do you qualify, you ask? You comment on a blog post there. Preferably mine, but any blog will do. Make yourself heard. For more info on Katy and REVOLUTION WORLD, go to her profile page here, and make clicky on her

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So I'm standing at the stove, cooking the family dinner. The wife is on the phone discussing the fundraiser for the kid's school, Helen, my youngest, is listening to Stephen Fry read another Harry Potter book, and Lily is in her room, plotting world-domination and scribbling the plans in her journal with the little heart-shaped lock.There I am, tongs in hand, cooking pork-chops and kinda turning

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I take a generally benign subject - Hugo Awards - and twist it to my own nefarious ends.Half memoir, half essay. All BS.Hope you enjoy.Check it out here.

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My story, "The Death Fantastique," can now be read over at Beat to a Pulp.The inimitable David Cranmer - a hellacious author in his own right (har har har) says nice things about it and me here, at his blog.

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New post over at The Night Bazaar. All about the balance one needs to become a best-selling uber-author and how I don't have that.Also, Batman, thermoses, Janus, dogs, kids, and Google docs and the imminent death of publishing is mentioned.Check it out here.

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Is it too artsy? Do I need an inbred with a tattoo and a trailer and a gun? Comments? Feedback?Shit, I think I'm gonna have to go back to the drawing board and get something more literal.What do you want to see on a Ozark Noir cover?

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I'm interviewed by Barna Donovan and Ernabel Demillo at Culture Wars.It was a snow day. I was at home in my office. They called and I shooed my kids away. And then I opened my mouth and stuff came out. I had no control over it, whatsoever.I hope I don't sound too much like an idiot.Check it out here.

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The western is due for a resurgence. A re-ascent. A renaissance, if you will. (Yes, I know renaissance means re-ascent. Stop it.)So, when the illustrious David Cranmer (writing as Edward A. Grainger) - editor of Beat to a Pulp - asked me to do a cover for his short story collection, I jumped at the chance. I love old west prints.The stories look great. They're hardboiled westerns. Six-gun

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New blog about the trials and tribulations of being a writer over at The Night Bazaar.It's full of rather inane blather.Here's the deal. I'm a good writer. I'm a good storyteller - no, wait - a teller of stories. I am not a good blogger, essayist, or philosopher. I have nothing figured out and I'm just fumbling along through life, doing and saying stupid things, and sometimes getting it right.

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Behold the cover painting for SOUTHERN GODS. Give me your thoughts, comments, questions.

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New cover design by moi.Bryan Smith has entered the epublishing fray. Pssssst. I also designed his masthead.THEY'RE HANDING OUT BAGS OF MONEY AT AMAZON!!!!!But seriously, Bryan's book sounds damned awesome. Here's what he told me:It's an apocalyptic horror novel. Demons/creatures from another plane of reality tear their way into our world and lay waste to everything, eventually killing 99% of

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Over at The Night Bazaar, I discuss how little I know about writing and the impossibility of teaching that meager store to other people.But still, it's fun. Go check it out.The Night Bazaar.

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Needle Magazine is pleased to announce that it will publish an ebook collection from Derringer-Award winning Dave White. Under Needle Publishing, MORE SINNED AGAINST will collect seven stories featuring White’s Jackson Donne, a New Jersey PI. Jackson Donne has appeared in two highly popular novels, WHEN ONE MAN DIES (2007) and THE EVIL THAT MEN DO (2008). From the introduction by Ray Banks: When

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The story of my route to landing an agent is online at The Night Bazaar. Go check it out if you want to see the trials and tribulations of a fledgling author.Check it out here.

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In which I admit to being a total wastrel in college. A vajayjay is mentioned. Funny pictures.All of this and more over at THE NIGHT BAZAAR.Go. Comment. Show love.CLICK HERE.

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Night Shade Books has placed SOUTHERN GODS on its own product page and is offering it for pre-order. The good news is that if you act now, you can buy the book for 50% of the normal cover price. And any of their other books.Now that's a great deal.So go here and pre-order your copy of SOUTHERN GODS and save some money.----I've joined a blog of Night Shade authors. All of us will talk about our

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A group of authors, myself included, with forthcoming releases from Night Shade Books have gotten together a group blog called The Night Bazaar.There we'll be talking about our books, our influences, our thoughts on writing, and a variety of other subjects throughout the year.If you're a regular visitor here, I'd ask if you'd go over to The Night Bazaar, look around, comment on the posts (and not

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How meta, right? Yeah, deal with it.10. Top 10 Classic Topless ScenesThis one is pretty self explanatory.B(.)(.)BS.9. Top 10 Zombie Killing BadassesBecause it’s important to rank zombie killing badasses.8. Top 10 Reasons I Hate Year-End Top-10 ListsRanking things in order of how much you like them is a coping strategy of 9-year-old girls.7. Nate Southard's Top 10 Reads of 2010Zeltserman appeared

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Cory Doctorow is giving away his incredible YA novel LITTLE BROTHER. In a world dominated by Big Brother, it's the Little Brother's job to irritate, foil, and obfuscate.And he's giving it away for free. You can get it here.But more than that, I'm very impressed by his reasoning behind giving it away. As an author, it's quite thought provoking.He says in the introduction:Universal access to human

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Over at Mullholland Books - the crime imprint of Little Brown - they're featuring a story from the Needle 2010 Winter Issue. It's "Truegood" by Sophie Littlefield.She's a great writer, they're a great house, and we're a great mag. Go spend money on all of us.Check it out here.

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So, Steve Weddle is my boy. He's a great friend and partner (in Needle) and he's said some nice stuff about THIS DARK EARTH, my unpublished post-apocalyptic zombie novel (but character driven!) at Crimefactory's blog, Day Labor.Check it out here.

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Our best issue yet, featuring part 1 of Ray Banks' novel, WOLF TICKETS. Get it here, hot off the presses. Choose GROUND SHIPPING and code HOLIDAY305 for FREE GROUND SHIPPING. That's $7.50 for 200+ pages of great crime with free shipping. Jesus, if you don't buy this, you're a total asshole.Huge kudos to Steve Weddle, our fearless leader, the awesome Dan O'Shea, Naomi Johnson, and the inimitable

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Went to a reading of Tom Franklin's CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER last weekend in Fayetteville. Great reading hosted by the nice folks at Nightbird Books. I've been reading Tom's POACHERS and HELL AT THE BREECH. He's gonna be a writer to be reckoned with, I'm thinking.Ended up at a faculty member's house with wood paneling and a well stocked bar. This is what happened.The squatty guys are the

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I went hunting with my father and two of his friends this weekend. Great time. Drank too much scotch, ate too much red meat, listened to old men talk about past conquests both real and imagined.One of the men, when I went to put some music on the stereo, stopped me and said, "Hell no. We're talking here."My dad drew me aside and said, "Gene doesn't like music."That took a while to sink in. I

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Yeah, I did some more stuff. This time a video trailer for Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's awesome comic, The Sixth Gun. Just watch the trailer. You'll get the idea.MAKE CLICKY HERE.Now go to Oni Press and buy those bad boys. Don't be lollygaggin'.

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Holy smokes. Holy freakin' smokes.It reads:John Hornor Jacobs's SOUTHERN GODS, in which a Memphis DJ hires a recent World War II veteran to find a mysterious bluesman whose music -- broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station -- is said to make living men insane and dead men rise, to Jeremy Lassen at Night Shade Books, by Stacia Decker at the Donald Maass Literary

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More shout outs about my deal.Steve Weddle has some nice things to say - and some interesting pictures of me. AND I'M NOT DRUNK IN EITHER OF THEM.Keiran O'Shea bought me a drink.And Erik Smetana remains a gentleman.And the diabolical known as THE DOCTOR has sliced off another gobbet of flesh.Please follow the links and give these people some love. They deserve it. Especially that O'Shea. I hear

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Well, my agent announced it so I guess it's okay to talk about it here. My first novel, a Southern gothic mythos novel, SOUTHERN GODS, will be published by Night Shade Books.I'm very excited. VERY EXCITED.Night Shade is the perfect home for this book. Not only do they have national distribution - meaning this book will find its home in finer bookstores all over this country plus all the other

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I've always heard it said that it's hard to sell anthologies. But they're cropping up everywhere! Yesterday I mentioned Chris Funkmeister Holm's 8 POUNDS collection, and the contest at his blog to win the Beat To A Pulp - Round 1 Anthology.Today, I want to tell you about Patricia Abbott and Steve Weddle's new antho, DISCOUNT NOIR.Uh...but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna copy and paste

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You know the one. The story in six words? Hemingway gave us this one:For sale: baby shoes, never worn.Here's another good one:Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?- Eileen GunnOr this one:Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time - Alan MooreOr this one:Man with diploid penis marries twins.Okay, so I came up with that last one.Now it's your chance.Head on over to Chris F. Holm's

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Is it all that you were expecting? You didn't think there'd be dragon pr0n, did you?

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What does that picture mean? I don't know! But I like it!That last post was a gag. I'm just dying on the vine here for content. My cup runneth over and I don't have the time for embloggery. Got the freelance work, the WIP novel that my agent has been pushing heavily to publishers (and I'm not even through with it), and the new job that's great but very challenging.On the bright side, I haven't

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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the

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Steve Weddle - LOST & FOUND (1 read and feedback)Jay Stringer - OLD GOLD (1 read and general thoughts)Kate Horsley - THE ANATOMY SHOW (1 read and feedback when complete)Erik Smetana - BRIGHTER THAN SUNSHINE (1 read and feedback when complete)John Rector - ALMOST GONE (1 reread when complete) he probably doesn't want or need this, thank godWho and what am I missing here? Dag, I'm mortgaged to the

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