Tor.com Alert 12/14/10

Tor.com has posted the latest installment of my “Richard Matheson—Storyteller” series today, and it was quite a challenge tackling his miniseries The Martian Chronicles, because despite its many detractors, I think he did a superb job adapting Ray Bradbury’s book.  In other Matheson news, the first trailer for Real Steel (a remake of his Twilight [...]

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Tor! Tor! Tor!

Speaking of blogs, it looks like your humble correspondent may soon be dividing at least some of his time between BOF and Tor.com (see blogroll at right).  The latter is, of course, the online presence of Tor/Forge Books, Matheson’s primary trade publisher; Gauntlet Press releases his work in handsome limited editions and, through its Edge [...]

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Captain’s Blog, Update 64122.5

Since I first reported last month on what I’ve experienced while trying to spread the word about my book in the blogosphere (see “Captain’s Blog, Stardate 64026.3”), I have visited many more sites and commented on quite a few; in fact, hardly a day goes by when my old reliable Google Alert doesn’t turn up [...]

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“This Just In…” 8/20/10

And here is Tor’s catalog listing for Other Kingdoms, the new Matheson novel due out in March: For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come.  Now the Grand Master returns [...]

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“This Just In…” 8/19/10

Here’s an update from Locus Online with information about the new Matheson story in F&SF: http://www.locusmag.com/Monitor/2010/MagazinesAndWebsites08b.html

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Untangled Web

The good folks at McFarland have kindly afforded me the opportunity to revise their webpage copy for Richard Matheson on Screen, and since I believe that will also serve as the basis for the jacket copy, it was a subject of no small concern to the author.  While preserving or reordering as much of their [...]

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The Energizer Author

In between beating my brains out over the index of Richard Matheson on Screen, I called the man himself to let him know that the book was limping along toward a tentative early-October publication.  I don’t know whether to laugh or cry as I report to you that the guy is still putting me to [...]

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Sitrep 8/6/10

Okay, so I’m sitting here holding down the fort at Maison Bradley with the cats and the rats (yes, you read that right; I’ve been saddled with a pair of foster rodents that my daughter—the world-saver, God bless her—rescued from euthanasia in the Cornell psychology lab…but don’t get me started).  As I write this post [...]

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Sitrep 7/27/10

Received the following from the managing editor at McFarland yesterday, and won’t take the time to editorialize just now, but will keep you posted: Today we have shipped proofs for your book, Richard Matheson on Screen, via UPS to the address you provided. You can now carry out your final two jobs, proofreading the book [...]

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On the Fritz

Okay, I will leave the explication to the professionals, but I do feel obliged as a kind of public-service announcement (and no, I don’t get kickbacks!) to point out that the restoration du jour of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent classic Metropolis is coming to Manhattan’s Film Forum May 7-20. I say “du jour” because this [...]

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