Fantasy and horror author Melanie Tem died February 9. She won the British Fantasy Association’s Icarus Award in 1992 as best newcomer, and her first novel, Prodigal, was honored with a Bram Stoker Award. Together with her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem, … Continue reading
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Awards: Steve Rasnic Tem, Mort Castle, and Cassandra Peterson. They will be presented on June 1 during the Bram Stoker Awards® ceremony at StokerCon®2024 in San Diego, CA. The … Continue reading
(1) PALLET JACKED. “Gen Con Card Heist: $300K Worth of Cards Stolen From Show Floor” – Gizmodo has the story. …Per Indianapolis’ WRTV, the tabletop game convention had over $300,000 worth of cards stolen from the show floor. Dicebreaker reported that the theft … Continue reading
(1) UKRANIAN BRADBURY TRANSLATOR MOURNED. [Item by Susan de Guardiola.] It’s being reported that Ukrainian researcher/editor/translator/”culturologist” Yevhen Gulevich (Gulevych), who, among other things, was the translator of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, was killed fighting at Bakhmut in … Continue reading
Going a bit light today so I can finish my tax returns! (1) NIMONA SAVED. “Netflix Picks Up LGBTQ Animated Film ‘Nimona’ Dropped by Disney” reports The Wrap. Netflix announced on Monday morning that it would be picking up “Nimona,” the LGBTQ … Continue reading
(1) THIS IS WILD. Brandon Sanderson invites you to watch as “We Back Every Publishing Kickstarter*”. As one commenter said, “Never thought I would watch a 30+ minute video of someone funding Kickstarters.” I had to watch the whole thing … Continue reading
(1) REACHING OUT. Kate Elliott distills her sff experience into a Twitter thread, which starts here. (2) COWBOY BEBOP. [Item by Ben Bird Person.] Science fiction author Wesley Chu (The Lives Of Tao, The Walking Dead: Typhoon) posted this “hot take” on Twitter: … Continue reading
Night Shade Books today released The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 2 edited by Paula Guran. It’s the second from the current publisher, but overall volume 12 in a series Guran started in 2010 (covering the stories of … Continue reading
A lot of catching up to do. Let’s get started! (1) YOUNG PEOPLE. At Young People Read Old SFF, James Davis Nicoll turns his panel loose on a story that was heavy, deep, and real in 1971 and won Theodore … Continue reading
(1) JOCO VIRTUAL CRUISE IN PROGRESS. [Item by Todd Mason.] The Jonathan Coulton Cruise, an annual “fringe”/”geek” cultural floating convention, is this year providing a free online version of the (essentially) convention… “JoCo Virtual Cruise 2021”. It started April 10 … Continue reading