Tag: literature

• August 10, 2016

  What does “Quiet Horror” mean? Five Horror Writers Weigh In–Lovecraft eZine

  This one fell through the blogging cracks for some reason. Nonetheless, this roundtable curated and conducted by Acep Hale is a great vehicle for showing how nuanced the horror genre is, but also how many voices are out there improvising it. I was honored to be part of the “Quiet Horror” panel with Kristi DeMeester, C.M.…
• April 29, 2016

  The BBZ Ist Quarterly Report: Publishing News, Nick Mamatas’ LAST WEEKEND, & more!

  Welp, so it’s May, huh? I haven’t posted much here, other than maybe to don a mustache for a bit of fun tribute. So, that can mean one thing, and one thing only:  MASSIVE UPDATES! Ah, but updates on what? For the most part, existence at the Bas Bleu Zombie headquarters has been like this:…
• June 28, 2014

  Summer Catch Up

  So, it is summer again and I’ve let the heat, humidity, and well…frankly, Hannibal keep me from blogging. And, I was doing so well, too!So here, in list form, is what’s been up on the writer side of things. Travel side of things will come later. Eventually. After I consume Season Two, more likely: Publications:…
• February 12, 2014

  Dive by Post: Feature on Stone Skin Press for THE NEW GOTHIC

  Sleepy Selena wants to share a thing before she slips off to miscount sheep. Stone Skin Press is excerpting “Dive In Me,” a story Jesse Bullington and I wrote about growing up SO(thern) GOTH and grunge in the 90s. It is the opener to THE NEW GOTHIC, edited by the awesome Beth Lewis, and is on…
• January 29, 2014

  Backward Glances: January summation

  Some months are quiet, and others are very loud with announcements and such.  In the later case, those are often broadcasted reactively as they happen, and get lost in the shuffle of all the other news-bytes out there.  So, I thought an end of the month summation would be a nice way to compromise the…
• January 19, 2014

  More Poe Birthday Stuff

  More Poe Birthday Stuff American Literary Blog is all-over Poe today. Check out this post, which highlights 5 of editor and literary historian Rob Vellea’s favorite posts about ye olde birthday boy.
• January 17, 2014

  F. O. Friday: Net Neutrality and Writers

  Let’s face it. It’s Friday and your mind just isn’t on your work. Let me offer you some time-passing and hopefully enlightening distractions via F. O. Friday. Seriously, browse all you can, because days of Internet goofing-off at the office may be over.  That’s right, the FCC executed net neutrality last Tuesday, and there have…