Son and Foe is reviewed in this month’s Locus (official website) by Rich Horton: long story short, he likes it. The best of our originals are, in fact, “surprisingly good.” You know, like a suckerpunch in the title fight that floors the champ when he least expects it! Yeah, just like that…
Anyway, Mr. Horton goes on to give a big thumbs up to “Real People Slash” (read it here) by Nick Mamatas (author’s blog) and also to “Super-Villains” by Michael Canfield (author’s blog). He also dug all our reprints, and mentioned in an e-mail to me that he liked Carole Lanham’s “The Reading Lessons” and Ray Vukcevich’s (author’s site) succinctly titled “In Which an Angel Offers Instruction on the Meaning of Life,” too. So, congrats to them and all the rest of our authors. Locus doesn’t generally review first issues (or so Mr. Mamatas assures me), so life is good at the moment.
In other news, I went and saw The Tossers (official website) live. They opened for something called Streelight Manifesto, but to be honest it should have been the other way around. The Tossers are a tight, tight band… even when they’re coming off a hellish road trip of 20+ hours, and have less than ten minutes to get set up and start their set.
My brother and I interviewed them for WRIR (official website), Richmond’s Indie Radio, and they were pretty cool guys (one chick). Buy their CDs: The Valley of the Shadow of Death (amazon.com