So things have calmed down since John’s MySpace account was hacked. Someone sent out a bogus message from his account saying that anyone who’d bought his books was a fool and he was retiring from writing. I don’t think anyone who actually knew John took it seriously but he has been trying to use MySpace…

The new issue of The Dream People is chock full of bizarro goodness including hilarious flash interviews with Michael Arnzen & Donna Lynch, plus a short story from Jeremy Shipp’s forthcoming collection and an essay out of Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word as well as new fiction, creative non-fiction and another great microcriticism by D….

Maria Alexander on Horror Q: Horror seems to be the writing playground of ‘the boys’. What made you chose to write horror or do you feel that you were chosen to write horror? Since I was a wee thing, I have always done “boy” things, it seems. I was attracted to so-called boys’ toys, like…

“In spare, luminous prose, Golaski conjures a unique blend of strangeness and menace. His vividly real characters are illuminated by the supernatural, even as it disrupts and changes their lives in ways that are variously enigmatic, disturbing and downright frightening.” —Christopher Harman, author of “In the Fields” and “The Last to Be Found”

SF Signal did a great, in-depth review of MONSTROUS CREATURES. Here’s an excerpt: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A selection of reflections, interrogations, and dialogues about the state and nature of fantastic literature from the perspective of one of fantastika’s most discerning writer/editors. The collection puts forth not just VanderMeer’s thoughts on making art, genre, and literature, but elaborates his…

Hey book lovers, have you heard about Paperspine.com? It’s a service like Netflix for books. Their rates aren’t too bad and they seem to have a decent selection, at least they’ve got a bunch of RDSP books that you might not be able to find in your local library. Here’s all the RDSP books they…