jeffreyford8
@jeffreyford8.bsky.social
Writer of novels and stories. Lives in Ohio.
I remember once reading an interview with Charles Vess, years ago, in The Comics Journal. He was asked a question about what his goal was as an artist -- and he said that he wanted to be able to draw anything he could imagine. That stayed with me through the years and influenced me as a writer.
New York Times Spelling Bee wouldn’t accept “numbnut.” I’m calling bs.
What planet is this guy from? I never saw anyone who had a harder time pretending to be human. Quick, someone administer a Voight Kampff.
At coffee time today on the porch, as summer fades, was finally able to get a shot of that freakin humming bird.
My Clarion student, Anj Baker, has a new short story up at Apex Magazine. Check it out. tinyurl.com/bdhwfezb
Cervidae, New and Sharp
I thought I was thirty-five and lonesome, with my car broken down on the side of the road, a grand midwestern storm brewing to the west over freshly shorn soybean fields. I’d lived amongst hills my wh...
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Drinking with my sister, Mary. She said, “You’re not going to live to a hundred.”
Ran into Nick Kauffman and Mike Davis at NecronomiCon in Providence.
Don’t know where it came from but found this on my forearm when I woke up this morning. Yes, I am 70, but I’m a little intimidated by the fact that someone felt it necessary to tag me.
Me and Derek are going to be at Necronomicon in Providence this year. Derek will have a table in the vendor's room, selling prints and paintings (some of the prints, seen below), and I'll be doing the following panel about Ray Bradbury (fri.3pm) and a reading (fri. 5pm).
Media obsessions seen through the ambition of a wannabe journalist and a middle-aged woman who may or may not have killed a classmate when she was a child. A third-person POV protagonist and an unhinged woman who creates monstrous journal entries, emails, and audio recordings for a future podcast.
Here's a link to that Coode Street Podcast in which Kelly Link, Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe, and yours truly discuss The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-72...
Karyn Sallis was kind enough to send me a copy of Jim’s last book — Backwater. It’ll be on sale on Sept 1st. Cover and front flap synopsis. This is the novel that Jim borrowed a paragraph from one of my stories for. See if you spot it. More importantly, though, pick up a copy when it drops.
Polly Schattel's film After the Fall, from a Jeffrey Thomas short story, will be on Netflix tomorrow night on their Crafty short films. Looking forward to this.
Only $1.99 Salon Fantastique by Jeffrey Ford | Open Road Media openroadmedia.com/ebook/salon-...
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<b>Expand your vision of what a fantasy story can be with tales by Peter S. Beagle, Lucius Shepard, Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Di Filippo, and others.</b><br /><br /><b>Winner of the World Fantasy Aw
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Me and Lynn have started through season 1 of True Detective again. It’s so great. Even better on the rewatch.
From maybe 5 years ago, me and Lynn with our old friend, Hal Duncan in Edinburgh, Scotland.
On the sign of the Baptist Church at the end of the road today — Hell Is Back. I wasn’t aware it had gone missing. Perhaps a vacation to Florida in the height of the summer heat.
A link to the reading I did last night on Story Hour with Charlotte Tierney. She read an amazing, creepy/hilarious spider story, "Who Kills a Spider," from Best British Short Stories 2026. I read "In Bludd," a flying head story, from my new collection, Pandemonium Waltz. youtu.be/Ru2fJAI88fI
Disclosure Day -- kind of a snooze. I wanted more Aliens, less info dumps, less characters telling you the plot. Also feeling as if Aliens showed up on TV, cool, big eyed, hiney-head Aliens like these, it'd be far less upsetting than any day's Trump news. A side order of religious fiddle-faddle.
Glorious morning on the trail with Mac. Temp — mid-60s. Beautiful breeze. Full sun. Saw a heron from the bridge. It was hiding in the weeds but I caught its reflection.
This week, two authors make their terrifying Story Hour debuts*! Join us for spooky stories from @charlieratpig.bsky.social and @jeffreyford8.bsky.social ! Wednesday! 7:00 p.m. PDT! *They’re both reading horror. We have no plans to terrify the guests. www.storyhour2020.com
A little while ago, my friend, Jeffrey Alan Love, sent me a package with these two beauties in it — News From The Fallout (a graphic novel he illustrated, written by Chris Condon) and The Last Battle At The End Of The World (a solo effort). Both are amazing.
