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2011 Eisner Awards

July 22, 2011
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The 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards will be announced tonight. I have to work all day long, and I will be chomping at the bit and checking my phone every five minutes until I hear the results. For those of you who don’t know why, here it is: “Topping the 2011 nominees with 5 nominations is Return of…

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Redneck Ninjas

July 21, 2011
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I’ve always been proud of my friends, long before we were US. I knew we were all destined for greatness, not just me, like the psychics had said. We were going to be doctors and lawyers and surgeons and politicians and artists, and we were going to rule the world. Our ovens just hadn’t preheated yet. Drew Bates and…

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Blood Oath is NOW AVAILABLE

July 12, 2011
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You probably think I’m kidding, but I’m not. Yes, Blood Oath is actually available. The movie that I wrote about in Beauty and Dynamite has finally — after almost ten years — been released from Troma Films. You can order it via Amazon (from which I get a very small kickback) if you click on the DVD cover here….

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Announcing the IGMS Awards Anthology

July 10, 2011
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…starring me! (and Peter S. Beagle…and a lot of really talented Codexians…) From IGMS editor and Gentleman Extraordinaire Edmund Schubert: We’re pleased to announce that a new anthology collecting award-winning stories from IGMS will be published later this year. In addition, other works selected by the editor and publisher will be reprinted. [I count as one of the “other…

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Tennesse Bound

June 17, 2011
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| appearances, Friends, life, tennessee

…but first I have to put in a shift at the bookstore. That’s right, kiddies — this afternoon, I am headed back to Tennessee, for far less time than I’d like to stay, of course. One day I’ll kick the renter out of my house and use it as a summer spring winter home, but for now I must…

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#YAsaves

June 5, 2011
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| Family, Friends, life, writing

I have a lot of hours at the bookstore this weekend, so I crashed last night shortly after this Wall Street Journal article came up in conversation on Twitter and Maureen Johnson started the #YAsaves hashtag. My only regret is that when I woke up this morning I missed all those inspirational tweets…but I’m starting to see that they’re…

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Genre Chick Interview: David Cleary

May 31, 2011
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Today wraps up our final interview of May’s Month of Writers Blog Festival Or Whatever We’re Calling It. It’s been an exceptionally fun ride. I’ll write up all my thoughts about it tomorrow — in the meantime, feel free to wander back through the interview archives and learn more about these friends of mine whom I admire so much….

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Genre Chick Interview: Amal El-Mohtar

May 30, 2011
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I had never met Amal El-Mohtar before last weekend. She and Aliette de Boddard kindly offered to let me crash in their room Thursday night (as I had a workshop first thing Friday morning), so I offered to pick them up at the airport. As no geek worth her salt would pick up someone at the airport blind,  I…

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