My novel EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, is among the big ton of Open Road Media horror novels in this @humbebundle.com deal. $18 bucks is a deal for what amounts to a book a week for the next year.
My novel Eutopia drops in June from Fleuve éditions' Styx line, in a French translation by Laurent Philibert-Caillat, and I've just seen the amazing cover! The book drops June 4, and the e-book's up for pre-order at the usual places. So go get it! Pre-orders help!
In June, my novel EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism will be available in a French translation, from Fleuve Styx. And today, the English-language ebook's on sale in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain for $1.99. openroadmedia.com/ebook/eutopi...
The Social Climbers. #art
It is publication day for @datlow.bsky.social 's 17th Best Horror of the Year, and for the second one in the series to contain a story of mine, "Fancy Dad." #4 had my first, so it's been awhile!
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
For some reason I've been making nautical pictures lately. Here's three. #art #atsea
Such a great book!
Una de las prácticas que traducen mis alumnos gira en torno a un fragmento de otra novela de este escritor (Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, mi primer contacto con su obra), pero Rasputin's Bastards mola como la mezcla de Expediente-X, Guerra Fría, Nuevos Mutantes y calamares gigantes que es.
Convincing you to read my book by the first sentence (or so): The start of Rasputin's Bastards.
When @madelineashby.bsky.social and I co-edited Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond back in 2015, the writers had no trouble at all coming up with James Bond stories in the Fleming mold. Perhaps Amazon should give one or two of them a call...
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Forget the Aston Martin! I want to see what that Bentley can do on the open road. If there's to be a big, improbable stunt, let 007 train up for it for a week or two, and pop some amphetamines for good measure.
Also, it's well past time that James Bond beat a Nazi at bridge.
Give me the James Bond who guessed British TV licensing was a Soviet plot, while he mooned about his flat after Tiffany Case dumped him! Who fell hard for broken-nosed Honey Ryder after being moved by her back-story! Who snickered with Felix Leiter about Floridian pensioners on the boardwalk!
No one's done that yet - Craig's characterization did come close, but didn't place him in the post-War context that had the literary Bond make a bit of sense. And even Connery's James Bond - closer to the period - was a bit too laddish, far too smug, to fit with those books.
How about this: a total reboot of the films, to a time before Dr. No, set in the 1950s. Sand off the casual racism and misogyny, and tell stories about the patriotic self-destructive romantic that Fleming made up for his secret agent.
Apparently today is the day* to remind everyone that @davidnickle.bsky.social and I edited a James Bond anthology: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
*For the record, I mean a day in which Bond is being discussed broadly, and not, you know, Remembrance Day.
Eruption #art
For American readers looking to read a horror novel set just prior to the rise of Nazi Germany, a deal: my novel VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination is just that, and also on sale for $1.99 for the e-book today.
davidnickle.ca/writing/volk/
Monstrous Affections by David Nickle
Finished reading this short horror story collection by Toronto legend @davidnickle.bsky.social last night. I’m a huge fan of Eutopia and Volk so I knew I would dig. Did not disappoint!
November Shore. #art
Ten years old this year, and alas, only available on the black market most places.
Paradise Mislaid. #art
The Bashful Dead. #art
That guy!
For the completist: All of my books with @OpenRoadMedia - The 'Geisters, Rasputin's Bastards, Eutopia and Volk, Monstrous Affections and Knife Fight - are available for $1.99 for the ebook in the U.S., until October 17. davidnickle.ca/writing/
So @procreate.com released a new update with a completely different brush set not long ago. Confusing at first, but it got me thinking outside the norm, and tried my hand at a Turner pastiche. Didn't quite hit it... but I'm not unhappy with it either. #art
Flirt. #art
Quitting Time. #art
Out of the Woods. #art
Yueh Tung. #art
Bald Mountain
