Friday, May 27, 2011

Friday's Forgotten Book: James Reasoner: Diamondback

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This isn't supposed to be a forgotten book, since it's out available on Kindle and different other formats. You can also buy a trade...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Meek's Cutoff

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This quiet Western movie has been mainly on film festival circuit and I saw it two weeks ago in a Finnish film festival. It's an indie ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

My novel will be out

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I'll be a real writer next Fall! Just heard yesterday that a small Finnish publishing house will put my historical science fiction/relig...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Erotic fiction

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Kate Laity and the beginner's guide to the erotic fiction here .
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Mellors and me

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Over at Facebook a friend of mine posted this link about different Lady Chatterley covers. I pointed out that this Argentinian cover was ...
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New pulp magazine

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Moonstone Books launching a new magazine .
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Xanadu!

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I've never seen Xanadu , but Vince Keenan's blog post about it is very funny and actually thought-provoking.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Winslow's Savages

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I just read Don Winslow's SAVAGES. It's fucking good. You better believe it. Like a treatment for a Tarantino flick written...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

A new book out, once again!

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Earlier today I picked up my new book. Sigh, you say, once again? Yes, once again! This is a small pamphlet I edited and wrote a foreword (a...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Jeff VanderMeer on Finnish SF/fantasy

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American writer Jeff VanderMeer was on a tour in Finland with his wife some weeks ago (I don't know why the word about this never reache...
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Monday, May 09, 2011

Finnish publisher Kari Lindgren dead

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My friend, author Tapani Bagge notified me that one of the last large personalities in Finnish publishing, Kari Lindgren, died recently afte...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

My book of outdoor stories out next week

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The last book for this Spring (well, not exactly the last, but close) is this collection of Finnish outdoor stories, called Outoja jälkiä/St...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Finnish SF scene

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My friend Jukka Halme talks with Jeff VanderMeer about the state of Finnish science fiction, especially about Johanna Sinisalo and her Bird...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

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I lured Kauto, my 6-year old son, to watch an ancient black & white Czech animation from an ancient VHS. To my surprise, Kauto watched t...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

Where's Lucky Luke?

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The Official Blog of the Western Fictioneers, Professional Authors of Traditional Western Novels and Short Stories lists Top Ten Western co...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Logicomix

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The Logicomix graphic novel (which I believe is available in English) has been getting high praise from just about everyone here in Finland....
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Controversy over Ace Atkins's forth-coming Spenser books

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Ace Atkins and TV writer Michael Brandman will be continuing Robert B. Parker's Spenser books . This has caused a lot of controversy at ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Interview with Woodrell

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Apart from just about everyone else, I'm not a big Daniel Woodrell fan, but do check out this interview with him .
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Finns getting a right-wing parliament

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It was an election day today. Finland voted for a new parliament and decided that what we need is a bunch of over thirty right-wing nuts to ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Antti Tuomainen strikes a deal

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Marvellous news from my writer friend, Antti Tuomainen, the noir man extraordinaire! Beware of the Finnish noir apocalypse!