My calendar is telling me it is now September.\u00a0\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Damn, the days are going by fast.<\/p>\n
We got back from our month abroad on August 15,\u00a0 which seems like yesterday on the odd numbered days and last year on the evens..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I returned to find more than a thousand emails waiting for me, which proved even more daunting than usual since I brought covid home with me as well, acquired at the worldcon in Glasgow.\u00a0 Two of my assistants tested positive as well;\u00a0 Parris and the other two were spared.\u00a0\u00a0 We’re all negative now, I am pleased to say.<\/p>\n
Joe Lansdale and kin were here in Santa Fe with us for a few days.\u00a0 Joe departed this morning, heading for LA and the red carpet premiere of THE THICKET, the new feature film based on his novel, starring Peter Dinklage and Juliette Lewis.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We didn’t have a red carpet here, alas, and we didn’t have Peter or Juliette, but we did have our own premiere on Saturday at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, along with Joe His Own Self.\u00a0 A good crowd turned out for the movie, and for the signing at Beastly Books before hand.\u00a0\u00a0 Joe signed a good number of copies of the latest edition of the novel, as well as his new new Hap & Leonard novel, and a collection of horror stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.\u00a0\u00a0 For the collectors among you, signed copies of all three are available at Beastly… while the supply lasts.<\/p>\n
The Santa Fe audience seemed to like the film, as did I.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a western, but the sort of western only Joe could write, dark and twisty and filled with a cast of colorful characters.\u00a0 Dinklage and Lewis were both excellent.\u00a0 If you’re a fan of the Old West, be sure and catch THE THICKET when it turns up at a cinema near you.<\/p>\n
And speaking of movies, we are moving along with the short films we made based on some of the short stories by the late, great, great great great, Howard Waldrop.\u00a0\u00a0 Steven Paul Judd’s adaptation of MARY-MARGARET ROAD GRADER has been accepted into WASTELAND, depp in the heart of the Mohave Desert.<\/p>\n