Kindle edition of Ice Cores

24 Thursday Feb 2011

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The new Kindle edition of my Ice Cores: essays on Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness is available now in the UK and in the USA. Slightly revised, and with another four passes of proofreading to correct a few minor niggles from the print edition. Hand coded for the Kindle, with illustrations.

Talking of Kindle / ebook sales, Barnes & Noble’s chief executive William Lynch says…

“we now sell twice as many ebooks as we do physical books at BN.com”

New Salon Futura – round-table podcast on niche publishing

15 Tuesday Feb 2011

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A new edition of Salon Futura is now available, including a podcast of a round-table on running a small publishing house. (Direct MP3 link, 57Mb | 57 minutes). Starts properly at 6:14.

There was a handy ePub edition for the first two issues of Salon Futura, but it seems to have vanished. Perhaps someone could volunteer to keep that valuable side of the magazine going?

Major New Yorker del Toro article

11 Friday Feb 2011

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Substantial new New Yorker interview / profile article on Guillermo del Toro’s quest to film At The Mountains of Madness…

Incidentally, my 2010 book of essays on Lovecraft’s Mountains, Ice Cores, should be available on the Amazon Kindle Store within the next 48 hours. Hand-coded, four passes of fresh proofreading for this new edition, and with a linked table-of-contents…

New journal on science fiction

08 Tuesday Feb 2011

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A new Spanish-language journal of science-fiction, Sci-Fdi : Revista de ciencia ficcion. Three issues so far, and the articles include one on Ray Bradbury’s stint with EC’s horror comics, 1951-1954, during which time 27 of Bradbury’s stories were closely adapted by Al (Albert B.) Feldstein. Initially pirated, but Bradbury was a comics fan and so he eventually found out and asked for a fee. He got it, to EC’s credit.

Colby Quarterly

30 Sunday Jan 2011

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The Colby Quarterly may be of interest to those seeking to place Lovecraft in the wider context of New England writers. The full-text of the journal is now online for free, 1943-2003. The journal…

“solicited [articles] on Maine authors and Maine history, including books and authors that had influenced Maine life and letters [and as the journal expanded to cover a wider range of English literature] The special interest in Maine and regional history and literature was maintained, now including the neighboring provinces of Canada”