Author: Alex Irvine
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A Little Writing News
Couple more short stories have made safe landings at magazines. “The Dream Curator,” which some of you might have seen me read at KGB a while back, will appear in Postscripts sometime next year, and “Dragon’s Teeth,” involving some of the same characters from “Wizard’s Six,” is coming from F&SF. This is the first time…
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So Long, Freep
The Detroit Free Press, at 177 one of the venerable urban newspapers in the US, is ending weekday home delivery and curtailing the content of its print edition. Their particular method is interesting in that it doesn’t involve a massacre in the newsroom, unlike those that have occurred at other papers. So perhaps we’re seeing…
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Happy 80th, PKD
In this blog named for a quote of Phil Dick’s, I would be remiss in not noting what would have been his 80th birthday. In honor of the occasion, Total Dick-Head did a two-hour radio tribute that is more than worth a listen. You can also find the BBC Arena documentary on PKD courtesy of…
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Couple of Supernatural Tidbits
Word from Harper is that the monster book is going into its fifth printing. And last week I got an ARC of John’s Journal, which looks very cool. Too bad it’s not coming out in time for Christmas, but it’ll be a treat in February.
Crooked House Fictions 