So, The Kitschies happened.
That was pretty awesome. Here on Pornokitsch, we reviewed all fifteen finalists. (We won't list them below, but you can get to them in all the normal ways - through our index or via The Kitschies' site.) Photos from the event are up on Facebook and the various acceptance speeches are also on the award's site.
What else?
A few non-Kitschies reviews:
- Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf (2011) (and ennui in the alpha)
- Alison Moon's Lunatic Fringe (2011) (and how to click with your werewolf clique)
- Gaie Sebold's Babylon Steel (2011) (Lizzie Barrett on female-centric fantasy and lizard phalluses)
- Benedict Smith's The Pack (2011) (and hormones and hairballs)
And a couple features:
- We went to the SFX Weekender. ("Blitz Spirit goes to Little Chef")
- Lawrence Block dropped by to talk about cover art, pseudonyms and generally being awesome.
- 10 tips for moderating a convention panel ("Do what I say, and not what I do", adds Jared)
What's up next?
Looming (darkly) on the horizon is the Gothic Evening on 8 March. Loads of guests (Jon Courtenay Grimwood! Tanith Lee! Christopher Fowler! Suzanne McLeod! Emma Vieceli! Too many to list!), loads of rum, loads of books.
We'll also be taking over the Blackwell's Blog again with guest posts from all sorts of properly horrific experts like Steve Resnic Tem, Louis Greenberg, Esther Saxey and more... More about this here.
We also started taking orders for our next Pandemonium volume, Stories of the Smoke. The book will be out in April (both as an eBook and a limited edition hardcover). More on this here.
Next week - many, many more reviews. We've got a lot of 2011 to talk about and, good lord, is it 2012 already?































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