In the dealers room at Confluence I found a copy of Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008, which includes my story “Save Me Plz” (alongside stories by authors such as Garth Nix, Karen Joy Fowler, Kelly Link, Andy Duncan, Ian R. MacLeod, Theodora Goss, Daniel Abraham, and Rachel Swirsky). So … the book is out, it’s real. My first year’s best appearance. Very exciting.
Edmund Schubert has updated the blog for Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show with my essay about how I conceived and wrote my short story “Red Road.”
And here’s a really nice blog post by Lisa Marie Andrews about my story “The Skull-Faced Boy”:
We’ve all heard the same old zombie spiel over and over again. Zombies rise. They are hungry. Living people run and hide before rising up and stomping zombie butt. (Well, some of the time.) What happens, though, when there is a zombie overlord? What happens when some of the zombies are the living dead with a mind still intact? Is there actually an original zombie story left out there? Well, I’ll answer that last question … YES! And this is it!
One of the first things to pop into my mind after hearing this is that this story would make a perfect episode of The Twilight Zone. A very good episode of The Twilight Zone. This is also probably one of the only zombie … well, anything! … that does not have massive amounts of gore flying around and detailed descriptions of mauling. Is there zombie grossness? Of course. But this guy has finesse!
I’ll be looking up more of this author and I highly recommend heading over to Pseudopod and downloading the audible version, as the reading was also excellent.
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