SCATTERLANDS 045
June 14th, 2013 | scatterlands
DEAD PIG COLLECTOR To Be Published By Farrar, Straus & Giroux
June 10th, 2013 | Work
I am delighted to announce that my ebook single, DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, will now be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, under their FSG Originals imprint. I’m especially happy with this – which worked out mostly thanks to the kindness of editor Sean McDonald – because I’m in the middle of writing my non-fiction book SPIRIT TRACKS for the very same editor and imprint.
Release date and other details to follow.
Once again, all my gratitude to my book agent, Lydia Wills.
SCATTERLANDS 041
June 10th, 2013 | scatterlands
Top of the week.
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SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 24 – Overlook
June 8th, 2013 | spektrmodule
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SPEKTRMODULE 24 Overlook 40 minutes and 19 seconds |
If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
Direct mp3 link. Or press Play on the player. iTunes link.
@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug?
Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.
1. logotone
2. “Ruckverzauberung 6.1” – Wolfgang Voigt (album: Ruckverzauberung 6)
3. “Rites: I “ - Paul Jebanasam (album: Rites)
4. “Icepulse” - Netherworld (album: Alchemy of Ice)
5. “Nicotine Incense (Trepan Redux)” – Lussuria (album: American Babylon)
6. “Untitled” - Ulaan Passerine (album: Ulaan Passerine)
7. logotone
All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.
Housekeeping
June 6th, 2013 | daybook
I think I may actually have briefly died in the night.
I’m using a Fitbit Flex to monitor my sleep patterns, as I’ve suspected for a while that they’re a bit fucked. After the day I had yesterday (and that was only part of that day), I needed a decent night’s sleep, but that’s a bit much.
After Pic 050, SCATTERLANDS will be moving to a different site. That takes the onus off me to update this site daily, and I’m availing myself of that opportunity.
I sent the last newsletter post last night: that system was paid for by my previous publisher, and therefore will now be switched off. I have no plans to set up another one right now.
I may go into the field of competitive sleeping.
Cancellation Of DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, Publishing Future
June 6th, 2013 | Work
Due to continuing issues, I have terminated my relationship with Mulholland Books.
DEAD PIG COLLECTOR is cancelled (for now).
If you pre-ordered DEAD PIG COLLECTOR: Thank you! And I’m sorry. Really sorry. Your vendor will reverse the pre-order soon.
The newsletter, MACHINE VISION, used a service provided by Mulholland Books, and is now closed.
Professional queries should be directed to my literary agent, Lydia Wills. This constitutes my complete statement at this time. In fact, I’m still in bed.
Station Ident: Morning All
June 5th, 2013 | station ident
I’m cheating and setting this to post while I’m still in bed. Because I intend to stay in bed for all the hours. Or until I’m forced out with a crowbar. Which means you’ll probably see me on Twitter in an hour. Bah.
NIGHT MUSIC: Transit timing observations from Kepler
June 5th, 2013 | music
Ghostly, creeping-wave white-noise space drone. My favourite thing for either imagining I have a space fortress or having a nightmare about being trapped in the Time Tunnel.
DEAD PIG COLLECTOR Approaches On Cold Little Trotters
June 4th, 2013 | Work
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The UK product page should be up very soon, to join the US page for the thing. Still waiting for the links to other ereader systems to process. I think we’ve settled on “digital short story” to describe the monster. Live date is June 18 for the US, and June 20 for the UK. I know nothing about its availability in any other territory at this time. Proper press release and quotes and things are to come soon.
This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but it turns out that fully one quarter of the traffic to this site comes from the autoposter that sends out “new post” links to Twitter. I was talking to Craig Mod the other night about blogs and websites, “home bases” and domains and the way things are changing. An apt time to talk about change, when I’m here hawking a short story being sold by a big publishing house… |
SCATTERLANDS 037
June 4th, 2013 | scatterlands
By the time we reach 050, we should know more about the first digital mini-collection thing.
NIGHT MUSIC: Tuluum Shimmering
June 4th, 2013 | music
Gentle tribal meditation sounds. Made for good work music on Saturday night.
booklist 2013: The Rolling Stones Discover America, Michael Lydon
June 3rd, 2013 | stuff2013
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From 1969, a long piece on a tour with the Stones. The first nine-tenths of the thing are as you’d expect, I guess. Recounting the minutiae of a huge rock tour when such things were still relatively new. An interesting period piece. The last tenth is Altamont. I was born in ‘68, but “Altamont” was still a word that meant something to people as I was growing up. After the Manson Family and the Days of Rage, Altamont was the iron door swinging shut on the hippie years. Michael Lydon was there in the middle of it, and his coverage is clear-eyed, even cold, bleak in its detail. Sick of the Sixties. |
Station Ident: This Is What We Used To Do
June 3rd, 2013 | station ident
From Rian Hughes’ Instagram.
SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 23 – Cloud Circuitry
June 1st, 2013 | spektrmodule
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SPEKTRMODULE 23 Cloud Circuitry 39 minutes and 50 seconds |
If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
Direct mp3 link. Or press Play on the player. iTunes link.
@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug?
Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.
1. logotone
2. “Small Choir” - Christina Vantzou (album: No. 1)
3. “Ships” - Luma Lane (album: Nice Girls)
4. “The Last Drop of Weight” – Lunar Miasma (album: Crystal Covered)
5. “Goldair” - Memotone (EP: Koma / Goldair)
6. “Slim Jim Wimshurst Mechanicals” - Leyland Kirby (album: Interpretations on F.C. Judd)
7. “The Wounded Platelayer” – The Doomed Bird of Providence (album: Collision Detection Box Set – Disc 2)
8. “Morning” - Rosy Parlane (album: Willow)
9. “Spacious Sighs” - Jim Cole and Spectral Voices (album: Sky)
10. “Where No Other Can Follow” - Svartsinn (album: Nord Ambient Alliance Tour CD 2009)
11. logotone
All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.
NIGHT MUSIC: Dreams Woven Within the Tapestry
June 1st, 2013 | music
Would you like some intense, unsettling metallic drone and medieval clanging sounds to end the night with? Course you bloody would.