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Read
this first!
Want champion Joe to sign your galley or ARC?
The Mojo one has a few words on the subject!
08/28/08-The Los Angeles Times writes, "Leather Maiden makes you
want to sit on a porch listening to [Lansdale] spin a yarn that you know
doesn't contain a true sentence. . . . At the beginning of David Lynch's film
'Blue Velvet,' you may remember that the camera presents a typical American
neighborhood and then moves closer, right through the sod and down into the
ground as a metaphor for the nasty secrets hiding behind the veil of societal
correctness. Lansdale's novel is a trip into that same hidden shame. You may
not enjoy the exposure, but you'll definitely enjoy the ride." Get your
copy here! [Thanks, Judi!]
08/28/08-Joe's not the only Lansdale on the road these days!
Kasey Lansdale is taking part in the Great Texas Ranch House Tour, which kicks
off September 5 - 7 at the West Texas Horse Expo at the Midland, Texas
Horseshoe Arena!
08/28/08- Have you
heard the one about the traveling preacher, the widow, and her retarded girl?
It's "By Bizarre Hands," and it's the
totally free Mojo story of the week! Enjoy!
08/21/08-HorrorReader.com
writes, "Joe R. Lansdale
excels at crafting dark, suspenseful and humorous fiction, and Leather Maiden makes for yet another
excellent addition to his already impressive body of work." Get
your copy here!
08/21/08-The
Austin Chronicle writes, "The
ever-prolific Joe R. Lansdale . . . certainly knows from fucked-in-the-head. .
. . Entertaining and distressing in equal measure, and for all kinds of
reasons, Leather Maiden is a bruising jolt from an
immoral moralist." Get
your copy here!
08/21/08-Planning ahead for your vacation next year? Here's one
to consider: Joe R. Lansdale has been named Guest of Honor at the first annual
Las Vegas KillerCon, to be held September 17 - 20, 2009. Click here for more information!
08/14/08-The Agony
Column has this to say about Joe's latest, Leather Maiden: "[D]on't even bother
to pick this one up and try to read it in the store, because about ten hours
later, somebody is going to come along and tell you to stop reading and just
buy the damn book, already. Lansdale is firing on all six, slick
cylinders."
08/07/08-Congratulations to Mud Creek's favorite daughter, Kasey
Lansdale! This past Saturday, she was married to Adam Coats. We wish them all
the best! (But, next time, maybe you could hold the reception here at The
Orbit. . . ? Plenty of wide-open space!)
08/07/08-The
(Nashville) City Paper
loves Leather Maiden! Reviewer Ron Wynn writes, "Joe Lansdale has won
both domestic and international awards for his past mystery novels, but he's
never written one quite like his new volume Leather Maiden. . . . Some of the conversations here
are hilarious, even if the language is anything but politically correct. [Main
character Cason] Statler is working in Texas small towns and country
communities, where folks don't mince words, and often aren't shy about
expressing disdain and wallowing in stereotypes. These ingredients only add
more punch and sparkle to a tremendous work that deftly blends farce and dry
wit with adventure and crime solving." But don't take his word for it--get
your own copy now!
07/31/08-The folks at Library Journal recommend Leather Maiden, saying, "With its mysterious disappearances,
abandoned houses, midnight trysts, and hidden culverts, Lansdale's latest is a
contemporary Hardy Boys story on crank, read to best advantage late at night
under the covers, with the aid of a flashlight." Read the entire
review here!
07/31/08-The folks at Texas Monthly also recommend Leather Maiden! They write, "[T]he combination of back-porch
storytelling and breakneck suspense . . . makes Leather Maiden a must-read for thriller fans." Read the entire
review here!
07/31/08-And
on the eve of the release of Leather Maiden, Joe R. Lansdale hisownself writes, "Just a note
to thank all my dedicated readers. I appreciate your support over the years.
You've bought a lot of my books and have been kind enough to tell me how much
you have been entertained. Today, I'm putting on my salesman's hat. My new
book, Leather Maiden, a thriller I'm very proud of, and hopefully the
beginning of a new series, is forthcoming from Knopf on Aug. 5th. In the past,
my books have sold, but over a period of time. I'd like to show my publisher
that I can make a real hit on the day the book is released. So if you would go
to your local bookstore on that day, or preorder from Amazon or Barnes and
Noble, I can't tell you how happy that would make me feel.
"Another
announcement: Next year, the new Hap and Leonard book, Vanilla Ride, will be published. I'm excited about
it, not only because it's the seventh in the series and it's been awhile,
but because Vintage has picked up the backlist for the Hap and Leonard
books, and I've seen the advance covers, and, man, they are great. I'm really
trying to prime the pump for my future publications, so, again, I hope if you want
Leather Maiden that you pre-order or walk into your bookstore and pick
up a copy on August 5. It would be nice if you pre-ordered from your bookstore
if no copies are going to be available. Team up with me to make this the
best-selling novel yet. I got here because of you, and I want to bring more and
more books to you, new books in the Hap and Leonard series, and stand-alones
and new series, as well.
"So,
I'm just out here takin' care of business, as the King used to say, and hoping
you'll help me in the process.
"All my
best, and thanks for your support."
07/10/08-Champion Joe will be a guest at ArmadilloCon in Austin from August 15 -
17! He hopes to see you there!
07/10/08-Champion
Joe says, "Lewis Shiner's latest, Black & White, is killer. Strong characters, suspenseful
situations, and tremendous insight. A novel that doesn't flinch from social issues,
and is so gracefully written it makes you want to weep. Should not be missed.
Lewis Shiner is the real deal, and this is his finest work." Click here to learn more!
06/12/08-We
were all out of candles, but we lit a mosquito coil atop a cake last week in
honor of the 75th birthday of the drive-in theater. We hope you'll
do that, too! Read
all about it here!
06/05/08-If you're looking for a little humor in your horror, check
out the anthology Blood
Lite, which includes the story "Mr. Bear" from champion Joe!
06/05/08-George
Pelecanos calls it "gripping,
ferocious, and very funny"! Scott Phillips says it "walks a delicate
line between grotesquerie and moral outrage all the while managing to be
funnier than anything I've read all year"! Ken Bruen pronounces it
"the novel of the year"! And Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera proclaims, "D' Alema e i libri pulp di
Lansdale: vendette orribili ma giuste"! It's The
Leather Maiden, champion Joe's latest, and it will be released August 5,
2008! (And, no, we can't read Italian. But that last one sure looks fancy,
doesn't it?)
05/22/08-And if you were wondering what Kasey's been up to . .
. she was a big hit at the blues festival in Italy where she shared the event
with James Blood Ulmer, Ponte Bon of Texas, Grayson Capps, and a lot of super
Italian blues musicians. In July, she plays in Norway at a country festival
with legendary female vocalist Lynn Anderson.
05/01/08-"I
relate to [Robert E.] Howard as a small town boy who wanted to do something the
people around him didn't understand. Like him, I did it. Unlike him, I never
had the urge to shoot myself." Read all of Chris Arrant's interview with
Joe R. Lansdale, as published April 29, 2008, by clicking here!
(Thanks, Jeff!)
05/01/08-Some folks have
asked what, exactly, Joe's forthcoming book, Leather Maiden, is all about. Big
Bill Crider answers that question here!
04/24/08-Stop what you're doing
and head to the comics store! Champion Joe has written a four-part comics
adaptation of Robert E. Howard's classic "Pigeons from Hell," and the
first part is in stores now. Click here for
more information! (Thanks, Tarhan!)
04/24/08-And while we're on the
subject of comics . . . a package arrived here in Mud Creek posted from Italy.
Inside: an amazing Italian graphic novel adapting Champion Joe's short story
"Way Down There." If you want to go searching for it, it's titled
Laggiu Nel Profondo; is adapted by Luca Crovi and Andrea Mutti; and is
published by Edizioni BD. And when you're at the comic conventions this summer,
tell every publisher you meet that you want them to print it over here, in
English! Take a gander . . .
.
04/03/08-In case you missed it,
Marvel Comics is making it up to you! Champion Joe wrote a couple of stories
about the Thing time traveling back to the Old West, and they'll be back in
print in Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Volume 8, shipping May 21.
03/27/08-Cason Statler is
drinking too much, stalking his ex-girlfriend, and wallowing in envy of his
older brother. All he has going for him is his new job as columnist for a
small-town paper. He thinks he can ride that last bit into something bigger by
investigating a cold-case murder . . . until he rides it straight into a serial
killer. Strap yourself in for Champion Joe's latest wild ride! The Leather
Maiden will be released in hardcover
from Knopf in August!
02/07/08-Sure, the holidays may
be over. But that doesn't mean your spending spree has to be! When the US
government shakes loose with that tax rebate, here's a way you can help bolster
the economy! Click here for a
list of signed Mojo options, direct from the source!
12/27/07-They love Joe in Italy! So . . . who's "they"?
Well here's two
"they," with Joe hisownself! Bongiorno!
08/16/07-Nominationsfor the 2007
World Fantasy Awards are in, and it's going to be a tough race in the Anthology
category, where Champion Joe is up against ... Champion Joe! Two anthologies on
which Joe worked are both up for the award: Cross Plains Universe(which he co-edited with Scott Cupp), and RetroPulpTales (which he edited by hislonesome). Congrats, Joe!
07/12/07-The Grist Mill's audio
adaptation of champion Joe's "God of the Razor" has been honored with
an Ogle Award, an annual award given to an outstanding horror/fantasy audio
theater production. Producer Scott Hickey, of STH Productions, received the
award at the CONvergence Convention in Minneapolis on Friday, July 6th.
Wanna take a listen? Click here!
[Thanks, Scott!]
06/21/07-"When the Vietnam
war came, Joe R. Lansdale told them he wouldn't fight. They sent him to get his
head checked; the doctor determined he was nuts and they said they'd rather
recruit dogs than draft him." Click here to read Dave Maass' entire interview with champion Joe,
as published May9, 2007, by the San Antonio Current.
06/21/07-Ourpal Hunter Goatley
hasn't checked in for a while, but champion Joe checked into Hunter's page, and
wanted you to know that Hunter's loaded onto his site an audio interview of F. Paul Wilson conducted by champion Joe way
back in 1990. He also wants to remind everyone that he still has audio files of
Joe
reading "By Bizarre Hands" and Joe
being interviewed at the 1990 FantasyCon. [Thanks, Hunter!]
05/24/07-Mail'sa little slow here
in Mud Creek, so we haven't gotten our copy of Locus yet, but we hear it's got an
interview with champion Joe in it. So check it out and let us know, okay?
[Thanks, Judi!]
05/03/07-Author Chet Williamson
hit the Austin Music Festival with his camera. The results? Click here! [Thanks, Judi! Thanks, Chet!]
04/05/07-Champion Joe was honored
with the Grand Master Award at the annual World Horror Convention last weekend,
where he also picked up a Bram Stoker award for editing Retro Pulp Tales. Wanna see what it looked like? Click here! [Thanks, Judi!]
03/22/07-KaseyLansdale is taking
the country music world by storm! Check out this TV news feature on Champion Joe's daughter,
including an interview with Joe hisownself! [Thanks, Richard!]
03/01/07-Twenty years ago,
Champion Joe wrote a story called "The God of the Razor." That story
has become a classic in the horror genre. Subterranean Press will celebrate
that classic story with a special release in their Signature Series, scheduled
for this October. Want to know more? Click here! [Thanks, Judi!]
02/22/07-Lansdale'slatest, Lost
Echoes (Vintage paperback
original), is in stores now! Why should you get it? Because Publishers
Weekly says so! Here's their starred review:
In this superior East Texas crime thriller from Stoker-winner
Lansdale (Sunset and Sawdust),
Harry Wilkes discovers after a severe childhood ear infection that he has a
peculiar "hindsight." Harry can not only see dead people but see and
hear violent events as they occurred in the recent or distant past. "It's
like I hear and see ghosts in sounds," he tells his father. By the time
he's a college student, Harry's psychic abilities have driven him to booze.
After meeting alcoholic Tad Peters, a retired martial arts expert, Harry
becomes Tad's surrogate son and student. The two forge a pact to sober up
together. Their resolve is tested when Harry agrees to help Kayla Jones, an old
childhood crush now a cop, solve her father's murder, which her boss, the local
police chief, has dismissed as a suicide. Lansdale's down-home prose erupts
with explosive twists and razor sharp insights into how "echoes from the
original sounds" can never be silenced until action is taken to defeat the
fear that created them.
02/22/07-Booklist says so, too! Here's their review: The prolific Lansdale returns, after
sojourns in pulp, sf, and horror, to work his peculiar mojo on the supernatural
crime thriller. Harry Wilkes has inherited his family's curse of experiencing
"dark sounds," full-sensory recordings of traumatic events that can
be unleashed by, for example, the banging of a toilet lid upon which a guy once
blew his brains out. Booze helps hold the "ghosts in the noise" at
bay, but his life as a drunken recluse isn't going well. He gets things under
control with the help of an eccentric sensei named Tad, but when a boyhood
girlfriend named Kayla comes home to find her father's killer, Harold grits his
teeth and journeys into the dark once more. Lansdale's prose finds the perfect
pitch between the laid-back cadences of front-porch storytelling and the
thriller's demand for growing urgency. He is a bit unreconstructed when it
comes to gender relations-or at least the vocabulary to describe them-but he's
got both the charisma and the balls to pull it off. Funny and scary, with a
barn-burner ending.
02/22/07-IfJoe R. Lansdale could
be any monster he wanted, he'd be the Wolf Man. If he could be any historical
figure, he'd be Wild Bill Hickock. Want to know more? Read
his interview with Sci Fi Weekly!
02/08/07-Kasey Lansdale will come
to you! Coming off an Italian tour, opening for Ray Price at the famous
Paramount Theater in Austin, playing throughout East Texas, the popularity of
Kasey Lansdale and The Daletones is growing. They are anxious to spread out
beyond their current programs and play new venues, and would love to hear from
anyone wishing to hire Kasey and the band, or her trio. Examples of her music
and information about this band can be found on www.kaseylansdale.com!
02/01/07-RobertBloch, Stephen
King, Richard Matheson, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Dean R. Koontz, Peter Straub, Brian
Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Charles L. Grant,
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jack Williamson, F. Paul Wilson, Ray Garton ... and
champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale! Champion Joe was just voted in as
the winner of the 2007 Grand Master Award for the World Horror Convention, in a
contest that had more people voting than in any previous year! Head to Toronto
from March 29 through April 1 to congratulate the Mojo man at the 2007
World Horror Convention! [Thanks, Rick!]
12/14/06-"Hisgenre-bending,
often hard-edged work never flinches in its depiction of the people he knows so
well, 'real Texans' found in his beloved East Texas." Click here to read Melissa Mia Hall's entire articleabout champion
Joe, as published December 11, 2006, by Publishers
Weekly![Thanks, Rick!]
11/09/06-Champion Joe's daughter,
Kasey Lansdale,
just returned from a tour of Italy, where she played to packed houses and
received a rave review in Liberta,
a national newspaper. Meanwhile, back home, she opened for country legend Ray
Price in Austin's historic Paramount Theatre. If you haven't yet heard her, golisten now!
11/02/06-Wantan extra dose this
week? RevolutionSF has proclaimed Champion Joe's "Night They Missed
the Horror Show" one of the "13 Scariest" for 2006.That means
you can read
it for free by clicking here!
10/26/06-Congratulationsto
champion Joe, who just returned from Italy, where he was awarded the Grinzane
Cavour Prize for Literature! (The last seven recipients were all Nobel prize
award winners, so, y'know, just keep reading and see what happens!)
08/24/06-Award-winningmystery
writer and Lansdale buddy Bill Crider filmed two short clips of Joe R.Lansdale,
hisownself, at this year's Armadillocon. Clickhere
to see a brief interview with champion Joe, and clickhere to see him reading from The King and Other Stories!
[Thanks, Rick!]
05/18/06-Didyou miss Don
Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "Incident On andOff a Mountain
Road"? Here's your second chance! Showtime's "Mastersof Horror"
is now available on DVD. Click here to get your copy! [Thanks, Tarhan!]
05/18/06-ChampionJoe talked to
the folks at Westfield Comics, and they wanted us all to know what he had to
say. Click
here to read the interview!
03/09/06-DavidSilva and Paul
Olson have an early April Fool's joke for you: A spoof that ranin The Horror
Show on April 1, 1987,
complete with a sidebar by champion Joe! Check it out by
clicking here! (And Joe adds, "What's scary about Iocus
is I actually started to write all the stories at one point, and have used the
pennames Richard Dale and Keith Jordan, but, alas, never for any of the stories
I listed.") [Thanks, Andrew! Thanks, Judi!]
02/16/06-Pickup the latest issue
of The Book of
Dark Wisdom for an interview with champion Joe. [Thanks,
Judi!]
01/12/06-Joemay be the champion
Mojo storyteller, but another Lansdale is the champion Mojosongbird! Click here to have a listen to Kasey Lansdale, daughter of the Mojo
one!
01/12/06-Booklistcalls Flaming
London, Joe's latest,
"one of the wildest alternate-worlds,rip-in-space-time, sf-pastiche romps
this side of fifties B-movies." Socheck it out already!
12/22/05-JerryWilliamson died
Thursday, December 7. He had been in a coma with complications from a brain
tumor. There are two people in the entire world who have earned Lifetime
Achievement Awards from the Horror Writers of America. One is Stephen King; the
other is Jerry. Jerry was an inspiration to many writers, some of whom kept
with the trade solely as a result of Jerry's words of encouragement. He'll be
sorely missed.
12/22/05-Thefirst issue of Cryptic
Magazine will include an
eight-page comics story written by champion Joe and illustrated by Mark
Kidwell. Look for the magazine in January 2006, and in the meantime, check
out the cover here!
12/08/05-Howold was champion Joe
when he started writing? How old was he when he sold his first piece? The
answers to these questions and more are provided to you by JakeMagazine! So
click here and get the answers!
12/08/05-Joefans will want to
check out an anthology called Lords of the Razor, which will include stories inspired by champion
Joe's "Lord of the Razor" story, including writing by Stephen
Gallagher and Tim Lebbon. It also includes Joe's original story, plus a new
one! [Thanks, Judi!]
11/10/05-I'dlove to tell you all
about Flaming London, but Publishers
Weekly seems more qualified,
so.... StarredReview.Against
the backdrop of a Martian invasion à la The War of the Worlds, Lansdale's rip snorting sequel to Zeppelins
West (2001) chronicles the
fantastic adventures of two elderly authors, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark
Twain) and Jules Verne. Other members of the madcap cast include a young H.G.
Wells, Sitting Bull, a Martian ape, a steam-powered robot and an intelligent
seal (and future dime novelist), whose diary and journal entries form the bulk
of the narrative. All must deal with the havoc caused by Wells's dang time
traveler, the hero of The Time Machine, who has opened multiplying cracks in the time continuum. Seasoned
with earthy, down-home humor, Lansdale's homage to Twain, Verne and Wells is
sci-fi fun at its boisterous, silly best. Timothy Truman's delightful cover art
and interior illustrations perfectly complement the text. (Dec.)
11/03/05-ThomasScott McKenzie
talked to champion Joe about writing, publishing, and that crazy Shen Chuan! If
you want to know specifics, click here to read the whole thing, as published
on Slushpile.neton November 2, 2005!
10/13/05-Joeconfesses, "I
haven't fought zombies." If you're wondering what elseJoe hasn't fought, check
out this swell interview with Norman Prentiss, as published
by Off the Shelfin September 2005. [Thanks, Judi!]
09/15/05-ChampionJoe won all
sorts of awards for his novel A Fine Dark Line. Now he may get a shot at"best
screenplay" as the book has been optioned for film, and Joehisownself has
been tapped to adapt it for the screenplay! [Thanks, Jared!]
09/01/05-Withthousands dead, and
tens of thousands left without a home, food, electricity,potable water, or a
means ofearning a living, Hurricane Katrina is being calledthe worst natural
disaster to ever hit the US. If you're looking for a way tohelp, before you
pledge any money to anyone, do some quick research to see if your money is really goingwhere you
want it to go. Two places we're sending money are SecondHarvestand MercyCorps
.
08/25/05-InMay 2006, Vintage will
release Lost Echoes, a paperback
original that championJoe describes as speculative fiction mixed with a crime
novel. A few monthsafter that, look for Knopf to release a new novel from the
Mojo one inhardcover. 2006 is shaping up to be the best year yet! [Thanks,
Judi!]
08/11/05-MadDog Summer and
Other Stories has been
nominated for a World Fantasy Award! What? Younever saw it? Well, you're too late now! Next time don't wait!
08/04/05-ChampionJoe talked with
Fangoria about "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road."You
can eavesdrop by clicking here! [Thanks, Judi!]
07/14/05-Ifyou head over to RanchRecords,and
click on Rawkus, you'll find Champion Mojo songbird Kasey Lansdale! You canhear
her sing "Back of My Smile"(though its labeled "No
MoreRain"), absolutely free! Check it out!
06/02/05-Successin California! In
a feat of political leadership, Jim Battin has done what mostobservers thought
was impossible. Shortly after 10:00 a.m. PST today, Battingot Senate Bill
33,whichwill close the incest-exception loopholes inCalifornia, passed on the
floor of the California Senate, 31-1. Those followingthis battle know that S.B.
33 was gutted last week.
But Battin had thebill amended back to its original verbiage before taking it
to victory. Click here to join the celebration
at Protect.org!
05/26/05-Doyou love Joe R.
Lansdale? Do you love splatter movies? Do you speak Italian? Then
this is the place for you!
05/26/05-Horror
Writers Association will be releasing a revisededition of
Writing Horror. The new edition will contain the old favoritearticles by some
of the most respected names in horror-including Mojo Joe-aswell as some new
material that will deal with challenges "in today'smarketing
environment." No word on a projected release date.[Thanks,Judi!]
05/19/05-ChampionJoe has long
been great friends with fellow novelist Andrew Vachss. On the eveof the release
of Andrew's new novel, Two Trains Running, champion Joe conducted an audiointerview to
discuss what he calls Andrew Vachss' best novel ever. Listen
to the pair discussing that novel by clickinghere!
05/19/05-Iftalking ain't enough
for ya....champion Joe and Timothy Truman are joined byfiddler Colin Williamson
for "The Ballad of a Feller Named OscarWilde," a song about the
true[swear on a stack of first-printing MagicWagons]story of Oscar Wilde's trip through the Lone Star
state. Click here to hear the jam!
04/28/05-Soyou've heard about The
Boar, but can't find a copy of
this champion Joe short novelthat was published in 1998 as a limited edition?
Same with that old zombieWestern classic, Dead in the West? Night Shade Books is here to save the day!
They've justpublished trade hardcovers of both. Click
here to learn more!
04/28/05-Thisguy must have
started reading Freezer Burn-but,
clearly, he didn't make itto the end. Check out 'Everybody thought he was nuts,' from the 4/27/05
edition of theChicago Sun-Times.
04/21/05-Andif that's not enough Bubba news for you, click
here to see the Bubba Ho-Tep action figuresfrom NECA![Thanks,
Rick!]
04/21/05-Lotsafolks like Joe for
his stories, but just as many like him for the way he kicksbutt. Ol' butt
kickin' Joe has written an introduction to the book of anotherbutt kicker, Mike
Casto, in which Mr. Casto teaches you how you can kick butt. To find a copy ofthat martial arts
book, called A Pondering of Principles, clickhere!
04/21/05-"Eachstory is about
eight pages in length. When you finish one, you can't help butreach for another
one." That's what CNN had to say about champion Joe'sshort-story
collection, Bumper Crop. It's
available now in trade paperback, so go on andget it!
04/07/05-Beenhankerin' for more
big-screen Mojo since you caught Don Coscarelli's adaptationof champion Joe's
"Bubba Ho-Tep"? Well, you can just keep waitin'.But in the meantime,
you'll want to keep your eye on the little screen.Showtime is launching a new
series called Masters of Horror, and one of thefirst six episodes is
Coscarelli's adaptation of champion Joe's "IncidentOn and Off a Mountain
Road." Click here for more information! [Thanks, Judi!]
02/04/05-OssieDavis died today at
87. Champion Joe writes, "I met him briefly on the setof Bubba Ho-Tep, talked to him a little, enough to discern he was
the class act Isuspected all along. What a wonderful and incredibly talented
man. Damn. A guythat could do anything and everything, and did. And did it
well."
11/18/04-Whileyou're making up
your holiday wish list, think about this: You can get achampion Joe book
directlyfrom the champion hisowneself! And he'll sign it,too! For a list of
what can be yours, click
here![Thanks, Dale!]
11/18/04-BigJim Sweeney's Mojo
e-mailing list is five years old, and we're celebrating witha special offer!
You can subscribe now for free (for a limited time only)! Justthink: you'll be
the first on your block to learn all the latest about Joe R.Lansdale. For more
details, click
here!
11/18/04-TheMojo list ain't
enough for you? Need another fix? Here's
the place to click!
10/14/04-ChampionJoe has been
honored by the folks at the Mid-South Booksellers Association, whohave named A
Fine Dark Line the best novel
of the region. We always said themMid-South folks have far better taste than
them folks in the Right South or theLeft South. Thanks, Mid-South!
08/05/04-"Thosethat see
Texas as idyllic or as the pit are both wrong. It's both of
thesesimultaneously." Read all of Joe Mammy's interview with champion Joe
by clicking
here.
06/17/04-Hungryfor some Hap and
Leonard? Get a taste of the next book-not due out until sometime into the next
decade-called Blue
to the Bone! [Thanks, Dale!]
06/10/04-Winningthe Bram Stoker
Award for Superior Achievement in a Screenplay is [insert drumroll here] Don
Coscarelli, for his adaptation of champion Joe's novella BubbaHo-Tep! Ifyou want to read that screenplay, grab a copy
of the signed,
limited-edition Bubba Ho-Tep book ! [Thanks, Judi!]
06/03/04-Protect,America's first
political lobby for child protection, has had a victory inTennessee! They've
eliminated the incest-exception law in that state. Read
all about it here!
06/03/04-TheBubba Ho-TepDVD is out, and it's hot! It climbed as high as#2on
Amazon's bestseller list. Go get yours today! [Thanks, Rick!]
05/13/04-"Eachstory is about
eight pages in length. When you finish one, you can't help butreach for another
one." That's what CNN had to say about champion Joe'slatest short-story
collection, Bumper Crop. Readwhat else they had to say here! [Thanks,
Kim!]
04/08/04-Wherewas champion Joe
born? What did his father do? Who was his inspiration? Thesequestions and more
are all answered in the totally comprehensive article on theMojo one in the Houston
Chronicle! Check it out! [Thanks, Kim!]
04/08/04-PublishersWeekly likeschampion Joe's latest novel, Sunset and
Sawdust, which they call
"wild andwooly....The book opens with a cyclone, ends with a plague of
grasshoppers andin between there's insanity, extreme violence, sex, grotesquesaplenty
and anexcellent dog. What's not to like?" So
go get it, already! [Thanks, Kim!]
04/08/04-Andin case you didn't
know, Sunset and Sawdust is
also available as anaudiobook, read by champion Joe hisownself. You'll
find it here! [Thanks, Kim!]
01/08/04-ChampionJoe says,
"James Grady writes with authenticity and heart. I can't wait toread what
he writes next." If you want to find out what James Grady willwrite next, click
here-and tell him Champion Joe sentya!
09/11/03-Theterrorist attacks of September
11 destroyed a sense of safety for every adultand child in America. No other
event in modern history on American soil hasresulted in such loss of life.
Donna L. Schuurman, director of The Dougy Centerfor Grieving Children, has put
together some principles to help inform how werespond to children's questions,
and some tips for responding to their needs.Check out, "Inthe Wake of Terrorist Attacks on America: How Do We Respond
to Our Children?"
09/11/03-BubbaHo-Tep won aPeople's Choice Silver Award! Read
all about it here. [Thanks, Judi!]
08/07/03-Whenchampion Joe is
looking to read an excellent Western, he'll grab one of JorySherman's books-and
he suggests you should do that, too. Find out more about Joryby clicking
here.
06/12/03-AFine Dark Lineby Joe R. Lansdale, narrated by Dick Hill, has
received an Audiofile EarphonesAward. This is the mark of a truly outstanding
audio program. Congratulationsto all who were involved in this recording-most
notably Dick Hill, LauraGrafton, and Mikael Naramore! [Thanks, Rick!]
06/05/03-Evenin Hungary they're
hungry for a slice of Mojo! Checkout this
Hungarian website, which includes two books by champion Joe!
[Thanks,Judi!]
04/10/03-Justbecause you live in
France doesn't mean you have to be a world away fromMudcreek, TX. Champion Joe
is available en Francais, at Entre-deux-Noirs!
03/06/03-Youprobably haven't yet
seen Bubba Ho-Tep, Don
Coscarelli's film adaptation of championJoe's short story. But those who have
are raving about it-including the judgesat the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, who
honored Coscarelli with BestScreenplay, and star Bruce Campbell with Best
Actor.
02/20/03-Youthought we called
champion Joe a champion simply 'cause of his straight teethand thick coat? Heck
no! He's a champion martial artist. But don't take ourword for it-go visit the TexasMartial
Arts Hall of Fame and see for yourself! [Thanks, Danny!]
02/13/03-Thehits keep rolling in!
A Fine Dark Line-champion
Joe's latest-hit #10 on the LosAngeles Timesbestseller list, and #5 on the Denver Post bestseller list. Rock on, Joe!
02/13/03-MojoJoe, for those who
don't know, lives down in Nacogdoches, Texas-the town thatwas showered by the
shuttle Columbia last week. Here's what occurred, in champion Joe's own
words.[Thanks, Kim!]
01/09/03-ChampionJoe isn't just
an outstanding writer-he's also a stand up human being. And ifyou want to stand
beside him, the place to do it is Protect.org.
Our very own Mojo man is anadvisor to the organization-and he advises everyone
to get involved!
01/02/03-Stepback in time to hear
an audio
interview with Champion Joe from September 15, 1990.Recorded
at Fantasycon XV in the UK,this41-minute interview is downloadable inRealAudio
and MP3 formats. [Thanks, Hunter!]
01/02/03-JoeR. Lansdale isn't
just a great writer-he's a great storyteller. Find out for yourself bydownloading champion
Joe's reading of "ByBizarre
Hands," courtesy of Admiral HunterGoatley!
11/28/02-Andspeaking of Thanks
and writing ... champion Joe is thankful for the writing ofNeal Barrett. He
says you should go check out the free story posted at NealBarrett.com.
Enjoy!
10/17/02-Jesuis un grande canard!
Even the French love champion Joe! Check it out! [Thanks, Gratiane!]
09/12/02-ToastmasterJoe laid it
down solid for attendees of Armadillocon 24--though there appearsto be
something in his cheek, and we're sure hoping it's his tongue. Read the transcript of his toast here. [Thanks,
Rick! You suck!]
08/08/02-Lookingto have more
sleepless nights? Get the God of the Razor model kit to decorateyour bedroom! Check
it out here.
08/01/02-JudiRohrig went to
Conestoga, and all she got was a day of shooting with championJoe. She uploaded
thesehere
pictures, so you wouldn't have to make the trip yourself.
[Thanks, Judi!]
07/11/02-LongtimeJoe readers will
recognize the name Neal Barrett-he's one of the Mojo man'scollaborators! Bad
Boy Barrett has a new one out, Piggs. Read what The AustinChroniclehas to say about Piggs, about Neal and Joe, and about unibrows by clicking here. [Thanks again, Judi!]
07/04/02-ChampionJoe and his
daughter, killer Kasey Lansdale, rub elbows with Bruce Campbell. Click
here!
06/27/02-Dale'sHap & Leonard
page is no longer just a Hap & Leonard page. Now it's aHap & Leonard
& Smokey & Jim Higgins & Jubil Raines & BillyBob Nolan ...
well, you get the idea. Check
out the new feature here!
06/20/02-DonCoscarelli, Bruce Campbell
and champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale sitaround a table talking about Bubba
Ho-Tep ... and dicks. Check
it out! [Thanks, Gordon!]
06/20/02-Ourman Dale has done it
again! This time, he's put together a map so all you Hapand Leonard fans can
see just where our dynamic duo has whomped heads! Click
here to view the map.
06/13/02-"Purefun,""flat-out
wonderful," "liberated, hilarious andimpressive"-that's how the
critics are describing Don Coscarelli's filmadaptation of Bubba Ho-Tep. Read the reviews at Ain't
it Cool News, Creature
Corner, and Dark
Horizons![Thanks, James and Gordon!]
06/06/02-Speakingof hosting Joe
... take a look
at these pictures from champion Joe's appearanceat the
Borders in Ft. Worth. And say a big Thank You to Steve Sabatka forproviding
same! [Thanks, Steve!]
05/30/02-ChampionJoe was guest
speaker at the Burroughs "Dum-Dum" and honored with theGolden Lion
Award by the BurroughsBibliophiles
for his contributions to Edgar Rice Burroughs and his creations.(This, of
course, in regard to Joe finishing ERB's final Tarzan novel.) Joesays, "My
favorite of all my awards."
05/16/02-You'llget an extra scoop
of champion Joe this week by visiting RevolutionSF! They'rerunning an
illustratedversion of Joe R. Lansdale's classic tale of redemptionand loss, "Godzilla's Twelve Step Program!"
[Thanks, Rick!]
02/14/02-ChampionJoe's got a
buddy by the name of Robert R. McCammon. Champion Joe andBig-hearted Robert
interviewed each other a while back. You can read
thoseinterviews on Big-hearted Robert's new website. So what
are you waiting for?[Thanks, Hunter!]
02/07/02-Joeain't the only
champion Lansdale, y'know-there's also champion Mojophotographer Karen
Lansdale! Take a peek at her magic here.
[Thanks, Judi!]
01/31/02-ChampionJoe's Mojo runs
all the way to Italy! If you speak Italian, check it out! [Thanks, Judi!]
11/29/01-Youcome to The Orbit
more than twice, you're sure to catch Judi here-she's areg'lar! She ran into
champion Joe down Texas way, and wrotethis
here story about it, with pictures and all. Enjoy! [Thanks,
Judi!]
11/01/01-Isthere a hard-to-find
Joe Lansdale book that's been eluding you? Well, now youcan have it, signed by
champion Joe hisownself! Click
here for full details! [Thanks, Dale!]
10/18/01-ChampionJoe's "Bob
the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland" comes to life in a comicsadaptation! Read
it online here!
[Thanks, Rick!]
08/30/01-Whetheryou're a Hap
&Leonard fan or one of the uninitiated, you're going to lovethis! Champion
Joe co-wrote a Hap & Leonard short story with Andrew Vachssback in 1999.
Previouslyavailable only in a limited edition, you can now read "Veil's Visit" here. Then be sure to
pick up the newHap & Leonard novel, Captains Outrageous, and Andrew Vachss' new
novel, Pain
Management. [Thanks, Kim!]
08/16/01-Someof champion Joe's
Mojo magic is available in "Talking Book" and Brailleeditions. Check
it out by visiting the website for the NationalLibraryService
for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and searching
"JoeLansdale." [Thanks, Kim!]
08/02/01-Ablast from the past!
Take a look at champion Joe back when he was young champion Joe, in this picture
taken at Aggiecon in 1980! The folks with him are his
goodfriends Bill and Judy Crider.
08/02/01-Die-hardcollectors will
love the latest feature added to Dale's Hap & Leonard page:Go here,
click on the covers, and up pops a page with a bunch of thevariations on the
covers![Thanks, Dale!]
05/17/01-Ifyou want to hear what
champion Joe has to say for himself, click
here. And thank dynamite Dale for allhis hard work! [Thanks,
dynamite Dale!]
05/17/01-Oneof the things
champion Joe will tell you is that Ardath Mayhar writes damn finebooks. You can
find out more about Ardath at her official web site,
and about her latest book-adouble novel in trade paperback, featuring The
Snowlost and Exile on
Vlahil-through StoneDragon Press.
05/07/01-Congratulationsto our very
own champion Mojo storyteller, Joe R. Lansdale! The Bottoms was awarded the Edgar for BestNovel of 2000. Rock
on, Joe!
01/18/01-Whenyou're done getting
your fill of this week's Mojo feature, be sure to head overto NickSharman.co.uk for a midnight snack. It's
thehome page for one of Joe R. Lansdale's favorite writers, Mark Timlin.
01/04/00-Thisweek we have a
special Mojo game for you, called Around the World with RickKlaw! See if you
can guess what these Web sites-uncovered by The Klawhimself-are saying about
champion Joe! Click here
forweb site #1, and herefor web site #2.
01/04/00-Wanta look-see at a
hunka burning Joe? Click here,
here,
and here!
[Thanks, Judi! Thanks, Kim!]
12/14/00-The New York Times has chosen champion Joe'slatest, The Bottoms, as one of their notable books of the year,
calling it a"mesmerizing period mystery ... that draws on the idiom of
regional folklegend to filter the horror of race violence and serial murder in
a small EastTexas town during the Depression." If you haven't already
picked it up, goget it now!
10/05/00-Whathappens if you throw
little Joe Lansdale's puppy in the creek? Find out in thisinterview with Mike Shea of The Austin Chronicle.
[Thanks, Rick!]
09/28/00-DynamiteDale's Hap and
Leonard page is complete! Check it out,
and let Dale know what youthink!
09/14/00-Youever discover
something so great, you couldn't put words to it? Well, damned ifRick Klaw
hasn't found the words. Check out "Being
Dragged by a Runaway Mule."
08/10/00-Thefine folks at
About.com had a nice long chat with champion Joe recently.Eavesdrop on their
ramblings here! [Thanks, Judi!]
06/29/00-"Peoplealways talk
about alot of my books being on the cutting edge and all thisstuff. I always
think of myself as an old-fashioned storyteller that's writingfor now."
Read the entirety of Judi
Rohrig's interview with champion Joe!
05/04/00-Everwonder what kind of
in-home security system you'd need if you were a championMojo storyteller? Click
here for
the answer!
04/13/00-ChampionJoe is beloved
the world over! Want to see the cover treatments of his Germaneditions? Click here and here!
[Thanks, Judi!]
09/09/99-Here'sa rare piece o'
Joe for ya: Back in 1996, Texas Magazine celebrated Writers Month bycommissioning a batch of
Texas authors to contribute to a collaborative story.Champion Joe's piece of
the pie is
here. [Thanks, Judi!]
03/18/99-Checkout this excellent ScandanavianLansdale page. You won't be able to
read most of it, but you'll definitelywant to seethe totally amazing cover
treatment on Savage Season!
09/10/98-Here'sa fun one for ya!
The folks at Mysterious Press hired Mojo man Joe R. Lansdaleto interview those blazing
stars of the literary world, Hap Collins and LeonardPine! Read the interview!
07/01/98-Welcometo the grand
opening of The Orbit, the official drive-in theatre of championMojo storyteller
Joe R. Lansdale!
