THIS SATURDAY Join Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale in discussion with Sadie Hartmann (aka Mother Horror)
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Master of many skills, Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale is an acclaimed singer, actor, author, editor, and publisher.
Following the popular response to her first two records No More Rain and Back of My Smile (both 2007), Lansdale’s first band Kasey Lansdale & The Daletones opened for country music legend, Ray Price, at several of his concerts throughout Texas. Her albums Know Me (2007) and Never Say Never (2010) appeared before she relocated briefly to Nashville from her native Nacodoches, TX. While there, Lansdale recorded her first full-length album Restless (2013) under the stewardship of executive producer John Carter Cash. The single “Sorry Ain’t Enough” (2013) debuted at #4 on the National MPE Downloads Chart. She opened for Wyonna Judd in 2016. A member of the Country Music Association, her music has been featured in the film Cold in July and Hap and Leonard TV series.
Lansdale brought her acting talents to Christmas with the Dead (2012), Hap and Leonard (2017), and Lovers in a Dangerous Time (2021). She lent her voice talents to the animated series The Reflection (2017) and for audio readings of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards. Lansdale appeared as herself and sang on the Animal Planet show Finding Bigfoot (2016).
Her first short story publication, “The Companion” (1995), co-written when she was eight years old with her brother Keith and her famous father Joe R., was adapted for the Shudder TV series Creepshow. Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts’ Casebook of Horrors (2018) and Dark Kin (2023) collects stories co-written with her father. As an editor, Lansdale helmed Fresh Blood & Old Bones (2012) and Impossible Monsters (2013). Because apparently she doesn’t believe in sleep, Lansdale is also the publisher of Pandi Press. Originally created to publish Joe R.’s work, the press has recently began to publish others beginning with books by Del Howison.
All of us at Tachyon, wish the amazing, dizzifying Kasey a happy birthday. Try and take the day off to enjoy your birthday. You’ve earned it.
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Honestly, things happen about the way I would expect them to happen, but as ever, there is so much charm and grace in PSB’s writing that it would be churlish to complain.
I’ve said before that Beagle is a writer for whom I can’t even feel envy. There are very fine writers out there, and while I try not to compare myself to anyone else, I sometimes find myself thinking “That’s like something I could have done, had I thought of it,” or “That’s something I could have done, but s/he did it better than I would have.” But I never feel that when I read Peter Beagle. Complaining about not writing like that is like complaining that you don’t fly as naturally and beautifully as a falcon, or that you have to use technology to do what a spider does naturally. It’s not a difference in degree — it’s a difference in kind.
David Liss is a well-known historical fiction author. His trademark is meticulous research. In this new genre for him, the story is still accurate historically while adding the fantastic elements that make the story fall more in the fantasy genre. Readers will cheer for Thomas as he grows from a feckless young man to someone ready to take on horrendous events. I listened to this novel and found the narrator to be a good match. The only quibble I had was that I found Thomas’ voice too nasal to enjoy listening to. This book is recommended for fantasy readers.
We discussed the way he started writing science fiction without realizing he was writing science fiction, the final line of the worst thing he’s ever written, how his first scribbling as a kid was a violent spy novel about The Smurfs, why it’s important to root for an author and not merely our own reading experience, the cliches some in the literary and science fiction worlds believe about each other, the newspaper article which sparked his novel HOW TO MARS, the way he’s managed to carve himself out a bifurcated writing life, the philosophical differences between those writing novels and short stories, and much more.
Through different slices of life of the characters point of view of his stories, the author shows in my opinion how Weird Fiction and Cyberpunk can intersect, through the encounters and relationships that can unite a cyborg soldier to a civilian, or even a cybernetic vampire to a man whose data she cannot steal.
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I highly recommend reading this collection!
Additionally, we’re developing another comic with Joe R. Lansdale (Moon Lake), and his daughter Kasey Lansdale (Terror Is Our Business), with artist Daniele Serra (Hellraiser (BOOM!)), but we’re keeping that title to ourselves for now.
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Joe R Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, and Keith Lansdale are all part of a family that is heavily ingrained in the writing world: music, comics, books, movies, and television.
If you are a writer looking for master classes in writing, tune in to this one!
Many favorite books of one’s youth don’t make it intact into one’s maturity. For me The Last Unicorn not only survived, it showed itself to be even more wonderful than I had remembered. As a young reader I loved the words and the story and the characters. As an older reader and writer of my own books, I have a much clearer sense of what it takes to write a book of such beauty and power. It is wonderful in the true, old, magical sense: full of wonders. Marvelous. Immortal, like the unicorn herself.
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ArmadilloCon is an annual literary convention sponsored by the Fandom Association of Central Texas, Inc. The primary focus of ArmadilloCon is science fiction and fantasy, but we also pay attention to art, animation, science, media, and gaming. Every year, dozens of professional writers, artists and editors attend the convention. We invite you to attend the convention, especially if you are a fan of reading, writing, gaming, and generally having fun.
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Master of many skills, Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale is an acclaimed singer, actor, author, editor, and publisher.
Following the popular response to her first two records No More Rain and Back of My Smile (both 2007), Lansdale’s first band Kasey Lansdale & The Daletones opened for country music legend, Ray Price, at several of his concerts throughout Texas. Her albums Know Me (2007) and Never Say Never (2010) appeared before she relocated briefly to Nashville from her native Nacodoches, TX. While there, Lansdale recorded her first full-length album Restless (2013) under the stewardship of executive producer John Carter Cash. The single “Sorry Ain’t Enough” (2013) debuted at #4 on the National MPE Downloads Chart. She opened for Wyonna Judd in 2016. A member of the Country Music Association, her music has been featured in the film Cold in July and Hap and Leonard TV series.
Lansdale brought her acting talents to Christmas with the Dead (2012), Hap and Leonard (2017), and Lovers in a Dangerous Time (2021). She lent her voice talents to the animated series The Reflection (2017) and for audio readings of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards. Lansdale appeared as herself and sang on the Animal Planet show Finding Bigfoot (2016).
Her first short story publication, “The Companion” (1995), co-written when she was eight years old with her brother Keith and her famous father Joe R., was adapted for the Shudder TV series Creepshow. Terror is Our Business (2018) collects the Dana Roberts supernatural tales, co-written with her father. As an editor, Lansdale helmed Fresh Blood & Old Bones (2012) and Impossible Monsters (2013). Because apparently she doesn’t believe in sleep, Lansdale is also the publisher of Pandi Press. Originally created to publish Joe R.’s work, the press has recently began to publish others beginning with books by Del Howison.
All of us at Tachyon, wish the amazing, dizzifying Kasey a happy birthday. Try and take the day off to enjoy your birthday. You’ve earned it.
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Every year in Turin in the frame of the Lingotto Fiere the entire book supply chain gathers: publishing houses, writers, booksellers, librarians, agents, illustrators, translators and many, many readers. For publishers, from large groups to independents, the Show is the most important opportunity to sell and present editorial news. For all readers, the Salone is a great international culture festival: 2,000 guests from all over the world for a total of 1,200 events. Every year the authors who have made the history of literature of the twentieth century and our century arrive at the Salone.
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Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino offers a massive programming schedule including events featuring Joe R Lansdale and Lavie Tidhar.
At what point is science fiction? The ideas, discoveries, history and stories of the publisher who marked a literary genre
With Simone Bonaccorso, Aurora Cancian, Loredana Lipperini, Maurizio Manzieri, Lavie Tidhar and Francesco Verso
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Join the esteemed pair of award-wining writer Joe R. Lansdale and acclaimed editor Ellen Datlow alongside author and Tachyon publicist Kasey Lansdale for Camp V-Con, July 15-18.
As we’re sure you already know, Camp Necon will be virtual this July due to circumstances that need no explanation. We’re calling it Camp V-Con, and our goal is to hold an event that provides as close to a full Necon experience as possible without physically being together.
Camp V-Con
Most of Camp V-Con’s programming will be held on UMass-Lowell’s digital platform. It works just like Zoom, only no one needs their own account or any third party software. Best of all, it’s also secure, so we don’t have to worry about trolls or bigots harassing our Campers. The University will supply us access links for their platform closer to the event, and we’ll provide them to all attendees once they do. We have also set up a Camp V-Con Discord channel to essentially act as our “virtual quad,” and we plan to send out a tech primer with everything Campers will need to know to access Camp V-Con in the coming weeks.
Once again, Camp V-Con is FREE to all Campers who are already registered for Necon 40 (now being held July 21st to 24th, 2022). Registration for all other Campers IS NOW OPEN HERE. The cost is $25.00 for the virtual weekend.
There is plethora of events, several with the Lansdales and Datlow.
1:00PM ET — 1:50PM ET — Making Your Word(s) Count: The Best Short Fiction of the Pandemic
An online version of our annual “Frank Michaels Errington Five Star Books Kaffeeklatsch, but for short fiction. I’m sure for more than a few of us, short fiction has been a solace during a time where it’s hard to maintain focus.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Daniel Braum, Ellen Datlow, doungjai gam, Rena Mason, Kyle Rader, Angela Yuriko Smith, Morgan Sylvia, John F.D. Taff, Sheri White
3:30PM ET — 4:20PM ET — Are You Jekyll or Are You Hyde: The Art of Collaborating with Another Author
We almost filled this panel only with people who had collaborated with Christopher Golden or Jim Moore, but the UMass-Lowell digital platform caps us at twenty participants.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Stephen Bissette, Kasey Lansdale (M), Izzy Lee, Charles Rutledge, John Skipp, L.L.Soares, Jeff Strand, Bev Vincent
5:30PM ET — 6:20PM ET — Dead to Rights: The Intersection of Crime and Horror Fiction
At what point does a “suspense” novel become a “thriller,” and at what point does a “thriller” reach “horror” status? A generation ago, we may have asked if these distinctions were remotely relevant for anyone outside of a publisher’s marketing department. Of course, with every author now tasked with marketing their own work, these questions have never been more relevant for authors straddling the crime and horror genres.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Dana Cameron, Gabino Iglesias, Nick Kaufmann (M), Toni L.P. Kelner, Joe Lansdale, Tim Waggoner, Doug Winter, Rio Youers
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The raves keep rolling in for Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE – HAP AND LEONARD: THE EARLY YEARS.
For BOOKREPORTER, Joe Hartlaub praises the collection.
The newly published OF MICE AND MINESTRONE is a must-have collection of (mostly) original short fiction that partially pulls back the veil on their early encounters, a kind of “child is father to the man” retrospective that features some of Lansdale’s best writing.
255 BOOK REVIEW recommends the book.
Perhaps for completists and series fans only, but this is still great stuff. Tall tales of East Texas rambunctiousness and formative experiences, delivered in Lansdale’s effortless economic style. The book even features a few recipes from the yarns, contributed (in character) by Lansdale’s daughter Kasey. Recommended.
Writer Dan at ELITIST BOOK REVIEWS enjoys their first encounter with Lansdale and Hap and Leonard.
I think I just need to read me some more Lansdale. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to at the end of this read. Anyone else love this guy’s stuff? If you haven’t tried him yet, and you enjoy great storytelling with great writing, then you need to pick something up from him. You won’t regret it. I certainly don’t.
Over on the Tachyon Publications You Tube Channel, catch Kasey’s Kitchen, where Kasey Lansdale recreates recipes from OF MICE AND MINESTRONE. There are four in all.
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