Paul Michael Anderson's Blog: The Dumping Ground, Part Deux

Necessary preamble: Back in 2017, the SyFy (is that the logo of that network? whatever) ran The Magicians, a series adapted from the trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman. I loved the novels (first clued in on them by Joe Hill while walking the stacks of a bookstore all the way back in 2009 or 2010, before he gave a reading from his then-new novel Horns), and so watched the series with great interest.

At some point, the network decided to run a contest of some sort for some reason (a cash prize?...

So Standalone‘s been out for a little over a month now and the response has been…good! Pretty decent.

I’m going to do a post about all the podcasts I’ve done so far (and I’m always game for more, wink-wink, nudge-nudge) and articles I’ve written, but, for now, check out some of these reviews!

Over on YouTube, Standalone‘s already gotten some attention, but I was startled to find myself on the Booked podcast:

And I absolutely adored the low-budgety low-budget-ness of the Lo...

I just realized, Jesus Christ, my new book comes out in ten days–on my birthday, no less. I hope you’ve pre-ordered it, and I hope all the reviewers and people who are getting a copy through their September 2020 package enjoy it.

But, what the fuck, wanna get a little taste? The first one’s free.

Enjoy, gang.

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So…now that everyone’s preordered the September package from the wonderful people of Night Worms (thank you, by the way! Knowing the care and attention Sadie and Ashley put into each month’s box, you’re in for a treat; I mean, yay, you’re getting my book, and a signed bookplate from me, but you’re also getting so much more and I’m excited for people to get them), what are Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing and I doing with people who just pre-order Standalone from us?

Check out below!

Hey, gang! Today, over at the horror site Inkheist, a new Standalone-story called “Everything Feels Wrong without You” is premiering. It involves a secondary character from the novella, named Martin–at least, that’s what he goes by right now.

“Everything Feels Wrong without You”, like Standalone, deals with movies and our reaction to them–although it’s more references in the novella, and the short literally takes place in a version(s) of Hollywood. Quick little Easter Egg, while I h...

It’s not a terrible surprise–my name was on the teaser banner for the September 2020 package, and I haven’t been able to shut the fuck up about my new book–but Night Worms, the awesome horror subscription service, revealed over on Instagram that Standalone is officially part of the package. My portion, not counting if my publisher includes bookmarks or whatever, will include signed bookplates and they look legit, fam. We made them look like old school video store rental cards, and that’s j...

It’s rare, but it’s fun when one of my stories gets the audio treatment. Today, over at The Wicked Library, they have an all-new story, called “The Man at Dealey Plaza” premiering, performed by Graham Rowat. It fits into the half-assed cosmology readers have seen in works like “The Doorway Man” and, more recently, “Hollowness”. I’m not much of a weird writer, say sorry, but I have fun when an idea occurs to me, and Mr. Rowat knocked it out of the goddamned park, friends and neighbors. Wh...

So this got announced yesterday:

My story “Feeling Like a Big Kid at the Beginning of the End” (written during the first few weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown here in the States, when my county decided to extend Spring Break and “see what happens”) will be appearing in Chiral Mad 5, due out sometime in 2021 by Written Backwards and curated by my long-time (and long-suffering) editor Michael Bailey.

This will be the third time I’ve appeared in a Chiral Mad anthology–my story “The Agoniz...

So this happened.

This is the second time I’ve worked with Sadie and Ashley and Night Worms–they commissioned a limited edition of How We Broke, the novella I wrote with Bracken MacLeod for Chiral Mad 4 back in March of 2020, working with Thunderstorm Books. I love working with Night Worms and, in general, just love Night Worms. Their monthly packages, of which I have purchased a few in my time, have always been spectacular and have led me to being introduced to new authors, such as C...

Updated the main menu–I haven’t had a single book for some time, so I slid the BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN page, created pages for HOW WE BROKE and STANDALONE, and slid the entire mess under a basic BOOKS page. Also, cleaned up my STORIES & EDITING page, because, y’know, that’s something that should be fairly contemporaneous. As this site transitions from a basic blog to an Oh-So-Very-Important ™ writer’s website (see the new domain?), it’s mostly me getting ready for the September launch of S...