Tag: Mary Shelley
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Last Call for WANDERING SPIRITS: Traveling Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN
Today is the last call on WANDERING SPIRITS: TRAVELING MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN, my limited-edition travelogue chapbook from Tallhat Press. If you’ve been on the fence about buying this, now’s your last chance. I can’t believe it’s been 9 months since Yves Tourigny swooped in and made my idle wish a beautifully illustrated reality. Many thanks to him, and…
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Publishing Notes: 2016: The Year in Review
Reading! Writing! Editing! Yay! As far as I can recall, this is what I was up too this year in publishing: Fiction “The Last Session: The Facts in the Case of Clarissa Collyer.” Dunhams Manor Press Limited Edition Chapbook. Longest fiction written to date. A whole novelette! Hot dang, I will conquer you yet, novel.…
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Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley!
August 30 marks two major events in Romantic literature. Today is the day Mary Godwin Shelley was born in 1797, which lead to an infection in her mother’s womb. Thus the world lost its pioneering feminist and adventuress, Mary Wollstonecraft, ten days later. This wabi-sabi truth of creation would haunt Mary and the pages of her most famous…
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Wandering Spirits Update: August
Wandering Spirits: Traveling Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN has been out in the world for a few months, and I’m happy to report that, not only is it alive, but doing well! I have been getting thrills from seeing Book Selfies on Facebook (scrapbooked below), and getting cool shout-out on various Frankenstein related content like Orrin Grey‘s…
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The Curse of Frankenstein, Updates, and Other Frankenphilia
Last Thursday, my good friend, vintage movie expert, bomb writer, and teratologist Orrin Grey inducted me into the wiles of the Hammer Frankenstein films. I’ve never seen them, and so what a better way to celebrate #Frankenstein200 than live-tweeting the experience. It was loads of fun, and we storified the experience here. In addition to…
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Flash Giveaway Live Over at #Frankenstein200
This came up pretty sudden within the past hour, but the #Frankenstein200 Facebook page went live, and to celebrate Mary’s waking dream at 8 pm EST (2 am in Geneva), they’re having a WANDERING SPIRITS giveaway. You must be in the US and a member of the page (just give it a like) to participate.…
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Now Available: WANDERING SPIRITS: TRAVELING MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (the chapbook!)
Although Frankenstein was published in 1818, fans are getting a head start on celebrating the novel’s bicentennial starting this week. On June 16-18, 1816, in Geneva, Switzerland, three days of terrible thunder storms caused a crew of young poets and libertines–Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dr. John Polidori, Claire Claremont, and Mary Shelley–to seek shelter in…
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