Jon Black

The Holmwood Foundation A secretive organisation, two antagonistic work colleagues, Dracula’s severed head. A Horror Fiction Podcast.

#TheHolmwoodFoundation #horror #podcast kickstarter is rocketing toward its first stretch goal. Take a second to learn about Holmwood & consider putting some money behind top quality SpecFic content (w/ some top quality swag).

Drac is back!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

Q&A With Madeleine D’Este Most of my readers will be familiar with Madeleine D'Este, a frequent guest poster who is always happy to feed my hunger for 'official playlists' for authors' new works. With Madeleine riding high on ...

Sat down with my friend (& fabulously talented Australian author) @madeleinedeste.bsky.social re: the buzz (& awards/nominations) for her contemporary-Gothic mystery novella Radcliffe (from Deadset Press), her work, the power of place in fiction, and her life.

jonblackwrites.com/2024/05/08/q...

April 8, 2024. A few miles of water vapor defeats the awesome power of the sun. I never want to hear some knucklehead say "How can paper beat rock?" again.

I love doing playlists for my published works. As an anthology, OVERDUE: MYSTERY, ADVENTURE & THE WORLD'S LOST BOOKS, let me do something special.

I asked my all my coauthors to contribute a couple tracks & commentary to this remarkable collaborative playlist.

jonblackwrites.com/2024/04/04/o...

Get a behind the scenes peek @ Overdue, the new anthology from 18thWall presenting 9 stories from 9 authors about quests for history's lost & forgotten books, in a shared-universe anthology joining my Bel Nemeton series w/ M.H. Norris' All the Petty Myths.

jonblackwrites.com/2024/03/08/c...

PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE: "Overdue," an anthology of 9 tales from 9 authors (including me) about quests for history's lost & forgotten books, set in shared-universe brining together my Bel Nemeton series w/ M.H. Norris's All the Petty Myths.

From 18th Wall Productions www.amazon.com/Overdue-Myst...

Not to brag, but FenCon 2024 has the perfect hotel for a SciFi & fantasy convention. How perfect? Let's play a little game called "Conference Hotel or 'Logan's Run' Filming Location?"

Answers tomorrow.

In the meantime, book your hotel room @ the special conference rate. fencon.org/Hotel.aspx

HOWARD WALDROP
(1946-2024)

Join us in taking a moment to observe the passing of Howard Waldrop. A titan of the Texas SFF scene, he was a powerful influence on the broader genre & received the 2021 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

His absence will be sorely felt.

(LET's apologize to J. Fogerty, THE gang & Lead Belly)

At MIDNIGHT, FenCon's membership SPECIAL expiries.

We hope you'll take a SHINE to A membership that's $5 LIGHTer ON the wallet. Come enjoy joy great #scifi & #fantasy + meet folks like ME.

register.fencon.org

ERCOT asks Texans to conserve electricity, expects ‘tight grid conditions’ due to freezing tempe... The Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is asking Texans to safely conserve electricity on Monday morning from 6 - 10 a.m. as the electric grid conditions tighten due to freezing temperatu...

*long-suffering sigh full of weltschmerz*

The least surprising news you will read all day:

www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

SciFi, Fantasy, and SpecFic fans: 16 hours left to vote in the Critters Readers Poll. Some great nominees this year, incl Madeleine D'Estes Radcliffe for Best Mystery Novel, David Lee Summers' "Falcon & The Goose" (for Best Steampunk Story & titles from Third Flatiron Books.

Critters.org/predpoll

Just voted in the Critters Readers Poll. Incuding Madeleine D'este's Radcliffe from Deadset Press for Best Mystery Novel, David Lee Summers' "The Falcon & The Goose" from eSpec Books for Best Steampunk Short Story & several titles from the ever excellent Third Flatiron.

critters.org/predpoll/

City Tech Library CUNY

#SciFi/#Fantasy friends & family @ 12:20 CST today, my wife will be presenting on "From Red Sonya to #RedSonja: The Sexualization of a Fantasy Feminist" at CUNY's 8th annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium. #PulpStudies #REHoward

If interested, you can watch at: youtube.com/@CityTechLib...

Fun "new" reading material with the novelizations of two classic #1980s #SFF films.

Most of my hat rack is covered by fedoras, porkpies & trilbys (trilbies?). For autumn, I decided to broaden my haberdashed horizons with a classic bowler.

GUEST POST: Radcliffe, the Official Playlist Madeleine D' Este NOTE FROM JB: Yeah, I’m always happy to temporarily turn my blog over to someone and get good content on someone else’s dime (hey, I am a writer after all). But it is always a tr...

The best thing about a new @madeleinedeste.bsky.social book is, well, a new Madeleine D'Este book. The second best thing is knowing I'll get an "official playlist" for the story dropped in my inbox.

I give you the playlist for her new novella, Radcliffe.

jonblackwrites.com/2023/10/08/g...

One of the best things I've read this year. Really stays with you.

Dale Cooper is an exemplar of a good, weird life. But I fear my time elsewhere in the world has "corrupted" me: lots of cream, a little sweetener.

Cup of coffee from my favorite local coffeehouse resting on a table.

I'm here, I have coffee. What else could I possibly need?