{"id":3776,"date":"2017-03-08T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2017-03-08T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:31:14","slug":"whither-john-linwood-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/whither-john-linwood-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITHER JOHN LINWOOD GRANT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually let me (John Linwood Grant, in case you&#8217;d already forgotten) onto these pages. It gets boring, and I prefer talking about lurchers or other jolly creative people. But I&#8217;m at a difficult age, and the alternative is painting the kitchen ceiling, so I thought I&#8217;d have a mutter over where I was at the moment (in the wrong room, probably).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3780\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3780\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/whither-john-linwood-grant\/author\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?fit=1689%2C1933&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1689,1933\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"author\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;john linwood grant&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;a candid shot of the author&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?fit=262%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?fit=474%2C542&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?resize=338%2C387\" alt=\"a candid shot of the author\" width=\"338\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?resize=262%2C300&amp;ssl=1 262w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?resize=768%2C879&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?resize=895%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 895w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?w=1689&amp;ssl=1 1689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/author.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a candid shot of the author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t really know me, I am:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a professional writer (i.e. I&#8217;m poor)<\/li>\n<li>a devout lurcher enthusiast<\/li>\n<li>an editor<\/li>\n<li>older than is helpful some days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am also six foot tall, an unreconstructed beard-owner, and believe in kindness and respect for others. But that&#8217;s probably not so relevant to this post. So forget that bit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that I&#8217;ll have to be better organised this year. For one thing, Django needs additional exercise, before he gets more of a little round tum. We might even have to find some agility classes to get him stretching those kangaroo legs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3777\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3777\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/whither-john-linwood-grant\/chillin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?fit=2848%2C2136&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2848,2136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePix E550&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1074638431&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;9.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chillin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;not exercise&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?fit=474%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?resize=387%2C290\" alt=\"not exercise\" width=\"387\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/chillin.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">not exercise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the whole creative bit is a spiderweb of whatever happens to be going on. At the moment I&#8217;m working on a ridiculous number of strands:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Editing <em>Occult Detective Quarterly<\/em>, a regular magazine of strange things, with the talented writer\/editor Sam Gafford<\/li>\n<li>Editing <em>Their Coats All Red<\/em>, an anthology of Imperial weirdness in Victorian times, with history buff and writer Matt Willis<\/li>\n<li>Putting together<em> ODQ Presents<\/em>, a new anthology of longer fiction<\/li>\n<li>Trying to sell my proposal for <em>Venetian Weird<\/em>, another dark fiction anthology concept<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Drafting invited stories for a number of weird fiction anthologies<\/li>\n<li>Drafting another <em>Last Edwardian<\/em> novella featuring Captain Redvers Blake<\/li>\n<li>Writing Young Adult fiction<\/li>\n<li>Expanding my hoodoo tales with Mamma Lucy<\/li>\n<li>Toying with a <em>&#8216;Sandra&#8217;s First Pony&#8217;<\/em> collection<\/li>\n<li>Responding to far too many Open Calls for story submissions because the idea sounds interesting (bad dog)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3781\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/whither-john-linwood-grant\/jlglistillo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jlglistillo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?fit=474%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3781 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?resize=416%2C277\" alt=\"jlglistillo\" width=\"416\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/jlglistillo.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Maintaining regular <em>greydogtales<\/em> posts, but I want to increase the lurcher\/longdog content a touch more without reducing the rest<\/li>\n<li>Reviewing over a dozen cool-looking books, sent or requested by me<\/li>\n<li>Drafting interviews with seven or eight authors whose work I like<\/li>\n<li>Writing original features on bizarre period or supernatural topics<\/li>\n<li>Failing to keep my own author website up to date<\/li>\n<li>Posting every week about J Linseed Grant and St Botolph-in-the-Wolds on Facebook<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I may well be doing other things, but I&#8217;ve forgotten what they are. I know I have half a dozen more stories sold and definitely in the pipeline. There&#8217;s roughly the same number sold but in Limbo due to various timing, announcement of publisher gremlins. The more likely suspects to appear this year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Hoodoo Man<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 A Last Edwardian tale set in twenties Harlem, with Mamma Lucy<\/li>\n<li>Another Mamma Lucy story from the twenties (TBA)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Heart Shall Speak No More<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 A Last Edwardian standalone set in Suffolk<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>On Abydos, Dreaming<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 my Technosophy science fiction universe<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>An Age of Reason<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 a second Technosophy tale from an earlier period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3779\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/whither-john-linwood-grant\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?fit=936%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"936,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?fit=474%2C328&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3779 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?resize=391%2C271\" alt=\"14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n\" width=\"391\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?resize=768%2C532&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14225400_10157566673245601_2533968612394721496_n.jpg?w=936&amp;ssl=1 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem with getting published all over the place in very different venues is that I suspect I&#8217;m too thinly spread. (not something any one ever says about my &#8216;robust&#8217; physique).<\/p>\n<p>Hence the need for a novella\/novel in the near future. Sometimes you need something more solid to get people&#8217;s attention. And even money.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all very stimulating \u2013 I can&#8217;t argue with that bit. But order must come from this chaos, at some time during the forthcoming year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3778\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3778\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/whither-john-linwood-grant\/960-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?fit=960%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"960\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;john linwood grant in his own vivid imagination&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?fit=474%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3778\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?resize=414%2C233\" alt=\"john linwood grant\" width=\"414\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/960.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">john linwood grant in his own vivid imagination<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So send all donations to<em><strong> \u201cThe Save John Linwood Grant Fund\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, care of The Vicarage, St Botolph-in-the-Wolds. And if you send raw chicken carcasses, our usual currency, please do refrigerate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually let me (John Linwood Grant, in case you&#8217;d already forgotten) onto these pages. It gets boring, and I prefer talking about lurchers or other jolly creative people. 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