News, Sort of

So there's a new story, "Mystery Hill," out in the January F&SF, and I've just finished a little something for Marvel, and am currently buried in a much bigger something for DC, but the real reason I had to post was:




Nerdgasm! Man, I can't wait.

For Fans of Kahlil Gibran

This right here is the best book review anybody ever wrote.

You Have Time for This

That's the title of a spiffy new flash-fiction anthology from Ooligan Press. I mention it, of course, because it happens to include a story of mine, as well as contributions from Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Robert Boswell, Bruce Holland Rogers, and a whole pile of other interesting writers.

Ooligan is a cool endeavor on the part of Portland State University, a small press housed at a university but publishing a list completely unlike your typical university-press list. Check out their other stuff, too.

They Write Letters

Fan letters are great, but in some ways a really outraged letter is even better. A correspondent unimpressed by my treatment of the Dark Knight writes:

Here's an idea for your next Batman book - try writing about Batman. I'm on page 214 and stopped caring about Enfer ages ago. I thought the purpose of a Batman novelization is to give some deeper insights into said character. If your script [sic] was used for a comic book there'd be, at best, 2 pictures of Batman and we're already past the fold. Instead I get novel James Gordon spending countless hours trying to determine what comic book James Gordon would have known instantly, and I get some bullshit new villian [sic] that could have been an existing villian [sic] (Firefly) that would have made the book way more interesting.

Anyway, your book sucks but I'll finish it out of respect for the Batman. Something you obviously lied about in your dedication.

Note for those of you intending to write vitriolic responses to writers in the future: It is not enough to hate the book. Your letter will be incomplete without a completely unfounded personal attack on the author.