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An English Professor in New York
Yeah, got that song in your head now? (or this one?) Good. I headed down to the city — and when you live in this state, there’s no confusion about what you mean when you say that. New York City casts a...
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Call for Stories: Noir Carnival
Noir Carnival A call for stories from Fox Spirit Books, publishers of Weird Noir and many more superb volumes. Dark’s Carnival has already left town, but it’s left a fetid seed behind. There’s a...
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So It Goes: Vonnegut Tribute Pre-Order
Roll up, roll up — it’s very nearly here! So It Goes: A Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut is available for pre-order now. What’s it all about? Kurt Vonnegut was a man who pushed his imagination off a cliff and...
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Reasons to be Cheerful
Spring break is over and I didn’t do the eleventy million things I somehow imagined I could shoehorn into that jam-packed week of ‘relaxing’ and (in theory) grading. HA! Always the case, always. Every...
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Upcoming Appearances
I knew this semester was going to be busy, but it’s got even more so as time has gone along! Here are the places I’ll be appearing and the things I’ll be doing for new releases in the coming weeks....
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Writer Wednesday: Awakening Imagination
I was going to say the best way to open your portal to the imagination would be to sit at your computer and shout, “Release the Kraken!” It could work! But the truth is for a lot of us,having finally...
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Art, Social Media & Horror
You’ve got three chances to catch me this week (assuming you’re not one of my students, then you’ve got a few more). Monday night I’ll be at the opening reception for the “Text as Art” exhibit at the...
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Writer Wednesday: Writing in the Digital Age
Midway through a hectic week — I want to write up the fabulous time I had on Monday at the Arts Center, but I need to work on my presentation for tonight’s gig: Social Media & Writers in the...
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Stop CISPA/Celebrate Earth Day
With two simultaneous directives, I cannot choose: Tagged: celebration, censorship, CISPA, Earth Day, internet, nature, paganism, shenanigans
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Reasons to be Cheerful #729
An empty storage space — plus! Last week of classes and only exams to go! Whoohoo! Tagged: reasons to be cheerful, shenanigans
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Grading
Talk amongst yourselves. I shall return anon. Tagged: British comedy, comedy, Fry & Laurie, grading, Hugh Laurie, shenanigans, Stephen Fry
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London Scrapbook
Tagged: British Library, David Bowie, friends, Hyde Park, Kensington Park, King's Cross Station, London, Millennium Bridge, Peter Pan, shenanigans, Tate Modern, travel
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Cheese & Pirates
What do cheese and pirates have in common? Both are salty! Okay, maybe that’s not a very good joke. Sue me! I don’t know why cheese and pockets and pirates became so important to The Mangrove Legacy...
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Writer Wednesday: Write by Hand
It happens eventually to every writer, that moment when you stare at the blank page or screen and nothing comes out of the brain even with knocking and/or poking with sharp sticks. There are all kinds...
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Random Adorableness
I am on my way to Derby this morning for the EdgeLit launch of NOIR CARNIVAL, catching up with the Rev Chloë today, and Adele and the skulk tomorrow, so here’s some recent random photos of cuteness....
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Launching Today: NOIR CARNIVAL!
Buy it now!! Tagged: Adele Wearing, appearances, book launch, crime, Derby, EdgeLit, Fox Spirit Books, horror, new release, noir, Noir Carnival, promotion, publications, S. L. Johnson, shenanigans
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Fox Spirit at EdgeLit2
What a delightful thing to see all the shiny books crowding together like this! In just about a year Fox Spirit Books has released a variety of titles that beautifully represent their raison d’être:...
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Byron’s Visit
It’s always lovely to have visitors. I hadn’t actually seen Byron face to face since the witchcraft conference at Harvard years ago. Of course we keep up via social media (which is one of the many...
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Go Ask Alice
I suppose it’s true that I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I weren’t busy; it’s usually the pleasant state of having a head full of stories and ideas that I am trying to make manifest. But I...
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