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Patrick Rothfuss! Charity! Prizes! Toe Tags! Goblins!

21 Monday Jan 2013

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alchemy, altruism, auctions, books, charity, fundraiser, Geekery, geeks, goblins, Heifer International, Patrick Rothfuss, prizes, raffle, spoils, strangeness in the proportion, toe tags, toe-tag bookmarks, Worldbuilders, Worldbuilders 2012

Appearing in a Patrick Rothfuss blog meets my definition of a fine day. The occasion? Worldbuilders! It’s a fundraiser run by Mr. Rothfuss to raise money for Heifer International (they impress me not for being altruistic, but for their competence in their altruism). What is more, Lord Rothfuss has gathered a might confluence of books and related geekery. Donating makes you very likely to win some fine spoils. Giving and receiving meet in a wonderfully impossible alchemy.

But there is only one day left! Things shut down at 11:59pm on the 21st. Get thee there now!

Donate HERE.

See the remaining auctions HERE.

For every $50.00 donated, I will personally slay one invisible scuttle-goblin. They’ve stolen our car keys and socks, unopposed, for long enough.

May Your Holidays Be Strange

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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826LA, anthology, audio drama, charity, christmas, comics, Comixology, draugr, hagfish, holiday horror, holidays, nightmare before christmas, podcast, Santa, Santa Claus, short stories, Sparrow & Crowe, strange tales, weird fiction, weird stories, winter, winter holidays, Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery, yule

I’m a Halloween boy, born and bred in the pumpkin patch, but I’ve always loved the Winter holidays. The mix is not so incongruous…or rather the incongruity works. Winter/Yule/Christmas and all the rest have had an affair with Weird Tales for a long time–from Charles Dickens to The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was not so long ago that winter was a deadly time of year. The harvest is behind; the spring is impossibly far ahead; the nights are long and dark–time to gather round the fire and tell strange stories.

So gather, lumplings!

WeirdWinterI had the good fortune of working with the creators of Sparrow & Crowe on an anthology of the winter weird, featuring their eponymous occult investigators. If you like to see more of the odd duo, check out their comic book (try out the free software on Comixology–I’d never thought I’d enjoy reading a comic on a phone, but it’s pretty sweet). Also see Sparrow and Crowe in their original appearance as part of the podcasted audio drama Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery (free to download from the website or iTunes).

Best of all, all proceeds from our anthology of winter weird goes to a charity: 826LA.

Check out my story, “How to Kill Santa.” It mixes Christmas, Santa, Norse undead known as the draugr, and hagfish! It’s Steven King’s It meets A Christmas Carol and a dash of Goonies.

Santa Draugr

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