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"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."

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Skinny Dipping

Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.

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Fun Size, Best Size

So the book is out. It’s also an August Booksense pick, which is pretty cool. And, it has taken a while-way too long-but I have here a PDF of about a third of the book. It’s the stories that already appeared online somewhere-whether in a webzine or stuff I put online myself-but in revised, and [...]

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Thu, July 6 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 2 Comments

Intragalactic Tour

Weird bandwith-exceeded issues yesterday, but it’s all good now. Here are the dates, so far, of my Intragalactic Reading Tour (not to be confused with an Intergalactic Reading Tour, or, conversely, an intragalactic rowboat). July 7-9 — Readercon 17, Burlington, MA 10 (Monday)- Amherst Books, 8 Main Street, Amherst, MA 01002 413.256.1547 — 800.503.5865 11 [...]

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Wed, June 28 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 1 Comment

Reviews and Interview

First, a review of Rabid Transit: Menagerie on SFsite. *thumbs up* 3 new reviews of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead to be found. The first in Small Spiral Notebook, the second at Ideomancer, and the third with Booklist. The Booklist review is below, since it’s not available to non-subscribers: Maybe the future [...]

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Fri, June 2 2006 » Fiction, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 1 Comment

Not a Wiscon 30 Report

Right after Wiscon, two 11+ hour days of work in a row. Tonight might be pushing past that by quite a bit. Crikey. Kristin’s uncle is very sick and they are going to remove life support tomorrow. We all knew this was going to happen at some point but it’s hard, still. I wandered through [...]

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Thu, June 1 2006 » Fiction, Life Studies, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 3 Comments

BEACon Report

OK, I just realized that BEACon would work as one of those punny con names. Weird. +Anyway, BEA was teh crazy. In a good way, for the most part. There were only a few times where I hit…the…wall with the onslaught of people and swag and suits and gimmicky costuming…it actually helped a lot to [...]

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Tue, May 23 2006 » Fiction, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 5 Comments

A Little Something to Whet the Appetite

Here at last is the “The Cabana on the Lake of the Dead” Drinking Games and Reading Guide This will be appearing in little black-book format at BEA and Wiscon for purchased copies of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead. One drinking game and a few, uh, thought-provoking questions for each story within [...]

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Tue, May 16 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 2 Comments

PW review + BEA

Publisher’s Weekly review of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead. If you happen to be in DC for BEA, Small Beer Press is cohosting a party with A Public Space, Melville House, and Bomb Magazine. Friday, May 19, 6.30 - 9 PM, Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1212 18th St. NW, Washington DC (18th St. [...]

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Mon, May 15 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 1 Comment

BEA

I’m going to be at Book Expo America in May. Anyone else going?

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Wed, April 26 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » No Comments

some book news

Just a quick note…Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead has been long-listed for the Frank O’ Connor International Short Story Prize. That long list is…well, pretty astounding, and I’m really honored to be in such company.

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Thu, April 20 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 13 Comments

TOC update

Two stories are being added to the collection: “Salting the Map” and “Home of the”. The latter is actually a novellette, so hey, a non-short story in the collection! So, to use Stephen Colbert-ese, the collection is now “girthier.” If you’re interested, you can read both stories online. “Salting the Map” was published at Fortean [...]

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Wed, February 15 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 2 Comments

Pre-

There is an page for the forthcoming collection up at Small Beer Press and also at Amazon. The Small Beer Press page has a good clearinghouse of some online interviews, stories, blurbiage (is that a word?), and the like. I’m very appreciative of writers and editors who have helped these stories along their way, or [...]

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Thu, January 5 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 5 Comments

Non-radio Flyer

So in light of this weekend’s Twin Cities Book Festival, and the upcoming World Fantasy convention, I decided that some sort of flyer, serving advance warning of the short story collection, was needed. Here it is. My wife made it, and rocks. It has upon it the more-than-likely front cover of the collection. Feel free [...]

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Fri, October 14 2005 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 4 Comments

TOC

I meant to do this weeks ago, when it became crystallized, but anyway, here are the stories that are going to be in my collection: If I Leap The Fourth The Centaur Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead Cuttlefish The Caliber The Excavation A Keeper Fuming Woman The Friendly Giants Tetrarchs Our Byzantium [...]

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Thu, September 22 2005 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead » 7 Comments