A heads-up for anyone following my very occasional updates here: I am not exactly leaving X, but I am posting a lot more fulsomely over at @davidnickle.bsky.social.
Aujourd'hui, Eutopie, la traduction française de mon roman d'horreur sur l'eugénisme, l'utopisme américain et un monstre terrible, est disponible en Europe et au Royaume-Uni.
https://t.co/apBiSi3NlW
It is with sadness that I am letting the community know of the death of Howard Moscoe – my former Councillor colleague for many years, and friend to many people in the Toronto area and beyond.
Howard was born on November 28, 1939. His working life started as a high school art teacher in the former North York where he became the President of the North York Teachers’ Federation and a governor of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation. His art background later fed a very successful election sign business. As a member of the New Democratic Party, he ran three times to become the MPP in the riding of Wilson Heights.
Howard had a long and illustrious 31-year career as an Alderman, Metro Councillor and City Councillor starting in 1978 and ending with retirement in 2010 representing the western half of the Eglinton-Lawrence riding. Some key moments in his early political career include:
- Promoting a municipal housing corporation in North York to support rent geared to income housing
- In the 1980s, attending rallies against the apartheid regime in South Africa and supporting human rights efforts in Nigeria
- Being an early supporter of LGBTQ issues in the early 1990s at the TTC when the community sought ad space on TTC vehicles
With municipal amalgamation in 1997, Howard became the first amalgamated City of Toronto Chair of the TTC. Building a vibrant public transit infrastructure and promoting ridership growth were his key passion. He read virtually every City Council and TTC report and had an encyclopaedic memory of their content that he brought to Council and TTC meetings. He was particularly keen in his advocacy for the Wheeltrans community and taxi drivers. An example of his creative thinking was demanding condo developers to include in their sales agreement a free Metropass for the first year of residency. An example of his tenacity was the purchase of the new subway vehicles built in Thunder Bay now serving Line 1. Howard was an early and strong supporter of the move to upload the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway to the province.
His Councillor colleagues will remember him as a tenacious fighter for social justice, whether it was people living with disabilities, tenants, people without homes, transit users, and so many equity-deserving communities. He never attacked people personally but would debate urban policy with great enthusiasm, and frequent humour. And yes, he was mischievous from time to time to the delight of friend and to the fury of foe, all of which made for entertaining media. At the root of all his pranks, clever strategies and tactics, he had a lifelong commitment to struggle for a fair, just and equitable Toronto. He did it all in a “larger than life” manner which made him a complete pleasure to work with on Council.
Howard’s contribution to a better Toronto has been enormous. The memory of Howard Moscoe is a blessing to us all. Rest in Peace, dear colleague and friend.
My novel Eutopia drops in June from Fleuve éditions' Styx line, in a French translation by Laurent Philibert-Caillat, and I've just seen the amazing cover! The book drops June 4, and the e-book's up for pre-order at the usual places. So go get it! Pre-orders help!
In June, my novel EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism will be available in a French translation, from Fleuve Styx. And today, the English-language ebook's on sale in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain for $1.99. https://t.co/IOLlkUMt11
It is publication day for @EllenDatlow's 17th Best Horror of the Year anthology, and for the second one in the series to contain a story of mine, "Fancy Dad." #4 had my first, so it's been awhile!
https://t.co/4T43talu4H
For American readers looking to read a horror novel set just prior to the rise of Nazi Germany, a deal: my novel VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination is just that, and also on sale for $1.99 for the e-book today.
https://t.co/mllCdJwS18
For the completist: All of my books with @OpenRoadMedia - The 'Geisters, Rasputin's Bastards, Eutopia and Volk, Monstrous Affections and Knife Fight - are available for $1.99 for the ebook in the U.S., until October 17. https://t.co/NIoRPMYLfc
A deal, in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain, for the e-book of my novel VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination, is on sale for $1.99 (or two quid) today.
https://t.co/mllCdJxpQG
I'm not at the Seattle Worldcon in person, but I will be there online, reading a story alongside fellow Canuck authors Derek Kunsken and Geoff Ryman to support the 2030 Edmonton bid for the convention. The readings are at 3 p.m. PST, 6 p.m. EST Aug. 16.
https://t.co/o2fOBTUnnG
A deal for U.S.-based readers: EUTOPIA: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (about eugenics, monsters and an early 20th-century version of the American dream) is available for $1.99 for the e-book today.
https://t.co/lKJpcIp7Jy
My novel VOLK (sequel to EUTOPIA) is on sale in the U.S. today for $1.99. For the first chapter, reviews-and-blurbs, and purchase links:
https://t.co/KW1ba1TSq7
Here's an excellent authorized fan recording by Jeff Clark, reading my short story "Knife Fight." I wrote the story more than a decade ago, inspired by a certain Toronto Mayor of my acquaintance, but it stubbornly remains more timely each passing day.
https://t.co/vM0VjlmdPB
What better place for a horror story than the land of Rasputin...
The End of the Line – Gray Williams @gray_books
Little Sister – Elana Gomel @ElanaGomel
Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
The Final Cut - Seamus McGuire
30 Days of Night: Red Snow - Ben Templesmith @Templesmith
The Witches of St. Petersburg - Imogen Edwards-Jones
Dyatlov Pass- Alan Baker
Return to Dyatlov Pass - J.H. Moncrieff
Master of the Forest - Artyom Dereschuk
Outside - Artyom Dereschuk
Matryoshka - Artyom Dereschuk
The Siberian Incident - Greig Beck @GreigBeck
The Siberian Incident - Andrew Gille
The Fatal Eggs - Mikhail Bulgakov
It's the End of the World, My Love Paperback - Alla Gorbunova / Elina Alter
The Nosferatu Conspiracy - Brian James Gage @brianjamesgage
To The Center Of The Earth- Greig Beck
The Haunting of Moscow House - Olesya Salnikova Gilmore @OlesyaAuthor
Prey Upon the Lambs – Jack Finn @TheRealJackFinn
The St. Petersburg Confessions - Ty Hutchinson
Rasputin's Bastards - David Nickle @DavidNickle
Road of Bones - Christopher Golden @ChristophGolden
Operation: Siberia - William Meikle
The Viy - Nikolai Gogol
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VOLK, my novel about eugenics and mind control set in early 1930s Bavaria (do the math), is on sale for $1.99 in the U.S. and Canada, and two quid in the U.K., for the e-book. The book is a sequel to my novel EUTOPIA. https://t.co/KW1ba1TkAz
In Toronto today I came upon an old man in the street who was yelling at the sky: "Fuck off everybody!"... then saw me, and added: "Not you. You're cool." I told him he was cool too, I wouldn't be fucking off today, and we went on our ways. A good omen in a weekend of bad ones.