@superamanda.bsky.social my love, Don Quixote was Christopher Lee’s favorite novel & the role he most wanted to play. He did record this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YUPU... #TCMparty #ManOfLaMancha

Humble Bundle is offering a treasure chest of horror and fantasy books edited by Ellen Datlow; these anthologies, most of them award-winning or nominated, feature many of the greatest sf and horror writers of the last 35 years. Fantastic stories in every book! www.humblebundle.com/books/best-e...

Here’s the Cliff Nielsen cover for the original 2000 Tor edition.

@patrickzircher.bsky.social Under the Flag if Night began as a pitch for a Captain Fear miniseries that Tony Harris & I sent to Vertigo circa 1997. When they passed, I promoted Anne Bonny from supporting character to protagonist.

“Sunflowers” is very different from the other fantasy novella I sold in 1999, not to Ellen, but to ASIMOV’S. Took years for them to print it. Was then reprinted in the SF Bookclub’s Best Short Novels 2005. I guess I need to remove the blurb. www.amazon.com/Under-Flag-N...

My novelette “Sunflowers” is in Vanishing Acts.

I talked to @byjeffsykes.bsky.social about #BigCoverStory, his novel about #Greensboro politics, pollution and #BinghamPark. He describes how it was inspired by a 2015 conversation he overheard while sitting near one of the city’s power couples. www.yesweekly.com/literature/t...

Amazon has my Alphabestiary on sale. @SuperAmanda.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Alphabestiar...

Eagerly await the next #SolomonKane mini-series from @patrickzircher.bsky.social It will take #RobertEHoward ‘s Elizabethan hero to India, where the real-life Gond warrior queen Rani Durgavati is defying the Mughal Empire.

Darling, you are the best present ever. I love you!

My love's piece on Jeff Sykes's new book #BigCoverStory In many ways, a first of its kind work of fiction aimed at liberal and corporate hypocrisy vis a vis the urbanization (buying and selling) of cities. Sykes covers the environmental degradation of Black and Brown communities without flinching.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my most wonderful @ianmcdowell.bsky.social We are going to celebrate all week!! I love you !!!

Thank you. The crab is very much a nod to Harryhausen. And I will bring you more Conan stories.

My love, Patch’s comics make me feel 14 again, except that 14, I didn’t have a goddess Frazetta bombshell like you.

@patrickzircher.bsky.social belatedly loving your great #RedNails sequel in #SavageSwordOfConan #9. Thanks for smart & funny Conan/Valeria & giving them comfortable looking pants. Is the crab a Harryhausen homage? Bottom panel looks very Gil Kane w. Crusty Bunkers inking.

@superamanda.bsky.social my love, see @patrickzircher.bsky.social make me literally LOL. She killed giant crustacean, but it collapsed on her, setting up this. Patch, great character work in the expressions. You draw my favorite post-BWS #Conan, suggesting Adams & Kane instead of Buscema.

I remember how annoyed a friend was by the inking on their pencils for an acclaimed 90s comic written by a former friend. I recall thinking how much better those pencils would’ve looked inked by my 70s faves Adkins or Giordano.

In #CourageOfLassie, the unrelated next film in the series, Pal plays Bill, a collie raised in the US by a different Liz Taylor. Bill becomes a war dog in that one, too, comes home with PTSD & kills sheep. Young Liz has to rehabilitate him. Not making that up. #SonOfLassie #TCMParty

#SheWolfOfLondon #TCMparty SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Ballyhoo lies. No werewolf, but human killer trying to convince #JuneLockhart she is one. @SuperAmanda.bsky.social

Russian Jungle Book is best Jungle Book. youtu.be/aPkNG-wFAuk

I do,my love!

I’d have too if I didn’t know Howard never sold to Adventure. So many things shape how we see characters. Who imagines Dracula mustached & old, Fu Manchu clean-shaven, Nick Charles stout, Holly Golightly blonde, curvy & southern, or Zorro dressed like this? @superamanda.bsky.social

The giant larvae that precede #Rodan look like the doodlebugs (hellgrammites) we kids would “fish” for by sticking broom straws down their holes. #TCMparty @superamanda.bsky.social

I owe Ben an apology. #Rodan is not a mutant, but is hatched by H-bomb tests. I didn’t recall the dialogue explaining this.

@superamanda.bsky.social @slipkid24.bsky.social

@PatrickZircher.bsky.social I want to make the Tarte à l'oignon for my love @superamanda.bsky.social. In the film, it’s amusing but historically accurate when Michael Caine cooks Sue Lloyd a “gourmet” mushroom omelette from canned ingredients bought at the new American-style supermarket.

March 1974. @superamanda.bsky.social

Bunuel had to fight for Dan O'Herlihy, who’d been Macduff to Welles‘s Macbeth. His Mexican producers wanted Welles, whom Bunuel called “too loud and too fat.” #TCMparty #RobinsonCrusoe

Some folks have forgotten things how bad things were in Downtown #Greensboro in 1992. I remember when the GPD was routed and a patrol car was set on fire by outside agitators. www.yesweekly.com/news/hellrai... @superamanda.bsky.social @slipkid24.bsky.social @kellylink.bsky.social

Till my beautiful and beloved @superamanda.bsky.social told me, I had no idea that Fred Gwynne wrote and illustrated children’s books.

@ianmcdowell.bsky.social made our third Valentine's Day together absolutely wonderful! We are still celebrating with a fabulous Swedish vampire film, LET THE RIGHT ON IN (Tomas Alfredson 2008). Ian, you are my super sexy Valentine vampire, every day! 🥰

My love @superamanda.bsky.social & I have walked downtown multiple times in the past few years and never felt unsafe. Nor have I in the over 30 years of doing that before I met her.

L. Krauss & I were early advocates on behalf of a Saudi writer jailed for being a writer. Krauss may have retweeted links to my articles. A. Sulzberger, fmr. NYTimes publisher, father of the current one, lives near my town & married a former editor of mine in 2025. He shopped in stores I worked in.

I stupidly tagged the wrong man in my skeet about Eric Larson making this reply to Monica Valentinelli on Facebook. It’s NOT comics artist/writer/publisher Erik Larsen, to whom I apologize. It’s Eric Larson, whom I believe has been a Fan Guest of Honor at Gen Con.

I did not have DGI President Zack Matheny blaming Ozempic for #GSO restaurant closures on my bingo card. My cover store in the latest YES! Weekly. @DanDosSantos.bsky.social @SuperAmanda.bsky.social www.yesweekly.com/business/sor...

Look at this kvetching Karenating killjoy complaining about TCM showing three Marvin the Martian cartoons before William Cameron Menzies’ INVADERS FROM MARS. What a maroon. #TCMparty #InvadersFromMars

Yesterday, my love @superamanda.bsky.social and I spent hours down this rabbit hole, as they were her childhood environs and I only knew Berkley from reading about it until she took me there. Exploring this time capsule with her was magical.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

I think the brain tumor scene is a dream and he does kill his wife but Rayburn is puzzling. The Big Sleep taught me not to puzzle over screen and teleplays too much. Sometimes even the filmmakers don't know :)

I didn't know there was a 1980 brit TV series called Hammer House of Horror. It opens with Patricia Quinn (Magenta from Rocky Horror) as a witch. Also has Jon Finch (my fave Macbeth). Not brilliant but fun.

I’m so glad I have my love and, soon, my wife, @superamanda.bsky.social and that she has me.

She defied cops, the Klan, & the racism of Dairy Queen and K&W. @superamanda.bsky.social

Nope, never made. But it was advertised in VARIETY back in the day!

@patrickzircher.bsky.social is doing my favorite Howard-inspired comics since Barry Windsor Smith left Conan.

Latest read, Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck; while composed of vignettes about Doc, a marine biologist & specimen supplier, and the variety of characters he meets, this is a novel of a man's love of life in all its shapes and forms. About 'seeing' and appreciating those around us. #BookSky

@superamanda.bsky.social and I saw the outside of the real Doc’s lab when my love took me to Monterey.

And as my lovely fiancé @superamanda.bsky.social just pointed out, Sven actually said “some people think” it’s ASH, rather than making that claim himself. Here’s the actual actor Graham James on Granada Closedown. There is arguably some resemblance. youtu.be/AGSCdN6GZA8