Lawrence C. Connolly

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  • This Week’s Mine Meld at SF Signal:
    Favorite Library and Bookstore Memories

    From this week’s installment of The Mine Meld at SF Signal: I grew up in Levittown in the 1960s. Ten square miles of uniformity, hundreds of houses just like mine, thousands of people just like me. To escape the normalcy, my friends and I imagined strange worlds with alien landscapes, adventures in places where weird…

  • Fantasy, SF, and Horror @ Rickert & Beagle

    Join Michael Arnzen, Stephanie Wytovich and Lawrence Connolly for a reading and booksigning at Rickert & Beagle Books — Pittsburgh’s awesome new bookstore for fantasy, science-fiction and horror fiction — at 2pm on August 2nd, 2014. If you haven’t been to the store yet, this is a great opportunity to check it out. Peter S. Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) and . .…

  • Storytelling Night @ Riley’s Presents: Writers on Writing

    Outside, rains rolled in to hammer the pub’s street-side windows, but the inside remained warm and friendly as a packed house gathered for Storytelling Night at Riley’s Pour House. The night’s theme: The Writing Life. Special quests for the evening were members of Write or Die, Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction Program, and. . .…

  • Time to Listen to the Werepig!

    If Greg Hall didn’t exist – the horror genre would have to just go ahead and invent him. I made that claim a few years back, and I think it might even appear somewhere on the cover of Werepig Feaver, Greg’s 2012 collection of stories and novelties – a book guaranteed to give you both…

  • What Are You Reading?

    If you’re like me, you have a number of books going at once. Maybe there’s a hardback open on your nightstand, a paperback waiting in your briefcase, an ebook queued up on your digital device. There’s simply too much out there for b00k-at-a-time reading, and having so many books going at the same time means…

  • Back to Riley’s

    St. Patrick’s Day is coming, and I’ll be celebrating with three shows at Riley’s Pour House on February 15, March 7, and March 15. That March 15 date will be part of Riley’s block party. If you attended last year’s event, I’ll hope to see you again this time around. If you’ve never been, you owe…