Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 10, 2012 - 7:17pm
I was doing the ANA thing too but I just found out you have to sign up with ebookmall.com to vote, which seems like a marketing thing to me. I've asked them to remove my submission because I'm not down with people having to do that to vote.
@Jen, I read your story and liked it!
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 10, 2012 - 9:59am
Congratulations, Brandon!
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 10, 2012 - 10:12am
Congrats Brandon. That's fantastic.
Emma I'll try to check out your latest version of Crystal tonight.
underpurplemoon
from PDX
October 10, 2012 - 10:23am
Emma! Will read yours, got it printed out! Yay!
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesOctober 11, 2012 - 8:33am
I was doing the ANA thing too but I just found out you have to sign up with ebookmall.com to vote, which seems like a marketing thing to me. I've asked them to remove my submission because I'm not down with people having to do that to vote.
@Jen, I read your story and liked it!
From what i can tell, that was a site error that they've now fixed. You don't have to sign up to vote, you just have to put in a name and a comment. You can't just rate the story totally anonymously.
underpurplemoon
from PDX
October 12, 2012 - 10:37am
Emma, I was wondering why we had only 181 instead of 182. This popularity contest isn't the greatest thing, but it'll break me out of my shell. I think I may go rogue and ask all of Portlandia to vote for me.
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesOctober 12, 2012 - 11:25am
I don't like the popularity contest aspect either. Some of the higher ranked stories are just bad. It's like someone said once, it sucks to be a writer because there are only two kinds of books. Ones that are so good, you know you'll never be able to write that well, and ones that are so bad, you don't know why they're published and you're not.
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 12, 2012 - 2:22pm
From what i can tell, that was a site error that they've now fixed. You don't have to sign up to vote, you just have to put in a name and a comment. You can't just rate the story totally anonymously.
At the time, yes, you had to sign up with the ebookmall commercial site in order to vote. That bothered me because you could just as easily have a sign in with OpenID/Twitter/FB and other options, which would keep the voting accountable. Instead they went the other route, and they admittedly share e-mails with "interested parties" for purposes including "marketing". So, spam. This condition made for cheap advertising, thus my inference that this is about marketing more than about finding literary talent. I shared my concern with them when I asked that they pull my story; perhaps others had the same concerns, if they've changed the login requirements.
I'm in no way knocking the contest or participants, as this was a personal choice for me. I didn't feel right asking friends and acquaintences to sign up with this site in order to support me.
There was also a rights issue that was brought up by my husband after he reviewed all the legal information. Ebookmall has non-exclusive rights to your story for twelve months, and the right to publish "in relation to" the contest. It means you can submit the same work to other non-exclusive publications. The story I chose is strong and I would like to submit it for publication. Some, but not all, of the publications are non-exclusive, but many of those want only "new", unpublished work, or work that's not been published in the last year. All work in the ANA contest is considered "published". (There was also the matter of all disputes being governed under Curacao law, which he didn't like the sound of, but that's just him being overprotective).
underpurplemoon
from PDX
October 13, 2012 - 1:01am
I've done all I can to post for votes. I've pretty much become a spammer, but it gave me a sense of understanding of what must be done to win. I even got a new Twitter account. Crazy!
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesOctober 15, 2012 - 5:50am
The top 20 is almost all female writers.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 15, 2012 - 7:27am
My review of Amina Gautier's AT-RISK is now live at The Nervous Breakdown. Powerful collection of stories.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 16, 2012 - 12:36am
.The Halloween issue of Surreal Grotesque is up. It features my erotica story, Atabey. It's about island spirits and sex. Mostly sex. Also available here.
Bob Pastorella
from Groves, Texas is reading murder books trying to stay hip, I'm thinking of you, and you're out there so Say your prayers, Say your prayers, Say your prayers October 15, 2012 - 1:32pm
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 17, 2012 - 3:40pm
We have a new story live today, from a new writer to our little haunt, one who is very much worth checking out.
Read City Lines by Terence Kuch here. It's a strange one. Maps and mania.
pendragon
from Seoul is reading MemoriesOctober 18, 2012 - 12:33am
I'm new to the whole sharing business & I've never submitted anything but I made a tumblr for my poetry.
I write a restrictive form of haiku that is a little offbeat & hopefully adds some interest to an ancient poetic form. I don't really know how to get the word out so I thought maybe you all could help me!
Please like///share///follow! I plan on eventually submitting to some places but not until I get more comfortable with my writing. Any criticism is welcome also! Thanks!
Hopefully this post is the right kind of whorish...
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeOctober 18, 2012 - 10:29am
Bob Pastorella
from Groves, Texas is reading murder books trying to stay hip, I'm thinking of you, and you're out there so Say your prayers, Say your prayers, Say your prayers October 18, 2012 - 4:58pm
I've decided to consolidate my Obscuradrome Facebook page into the more easily pronounced Bob Pastorella Facebook page. The main purpose of this page is to promote the wonderful, talented people I've become associated with through out the years, and my own meager offerings as well. If I think it's cool, I'm going to share it. Please Like my page, it likes the likes.
pendragon
from Seoul is reading MemoriesOctober 18, 2012 - 5:07pm
Thanks, Boone!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 23, 2012 - 10:49am
A generous and thoughtful review of Herniated Roots, my debut neo-noir collection of short stories, is now live over at ManArchy Magazine.
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 25, 2012 - 7:16am
Way to go, Leah and Richard!
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.October 25, 2012 - 7:40am
Thanks, Utah! Congrats, Richard!
I love this thread - so much happy news!
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 25, 2012 - 11:58am
To follow up on Richard's post, today's ManArchy flash fright is my own little chilling tale about getting nosey with noisy neighbors. Enjoy "Shivaree" and please do share if you dig.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 25, 2012 - 1:46pm
Gordon, just read your story. Very cool. I am suddenly glad I have a loser's bracket to fall back on.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 25, 2012 - 8:17pm
Gracias, kind sir. I hadn't really written any horror before because it's so tough to come up with something that isn't derivative—even though I've always wanted to try. So I combined personal experience (the first half), using the suspense of mysterious sounds, with some untapped mythology.
WAR's gonna be a real test—after the first round or two—because I'm hella, hella slow, relying on a lot of thematic development and layering that there's just not enough time for. Advantage: Utah. Maybe.
JonnyGibbings
October 26, 2012 - 1:47am
Shivaree was the nuts Gordan - feckin loved it!! Dig ya Horra man.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 26, 2012 - 5:42am
Did you... just say that you love nuts?
JonnyGibbings
October 26, 2012 - 6:43am
I do love nuts. But not 'Man satchel' nuts. Not that fond of my own to be honest. sure, I will keep them, but even shaven it doesn't improve the apperance... just looks like a couple of pounds of boild turkey giblets. But yes, I loved both the Highlanders Shivaree and nuts. Even peanuts, that are not technically a nut, but a pea.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 26, 2012 - 6:44am
You love pee.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 6:49am
Who doesn't?
It's sterile, and I like the taste.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 26, 2012 - 7:46am
Staying on topic, just can't resist sharing a couple of recent tweets.
Charlie Brown—an entertainment icon—worked for peanuts. I wonder if the same was true of The Elephant Man.
Eating the shit outta some peanuts is preferable to the other way around.
.
October 27, 2012 - 8:07am
Blink-Ink 2012 Pushcart Nominations
Alexandra Isacson - Manhattan
Corey Mesler - Dave and Grif and the Cat
Asha Khalaladkar - The Icelander
John Swain - Trampoline
Salley Reno - Hotel Khadijah
Dakota Taylor - The Passenger
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 27, 2012 - 8:10am
Finally, some good news. I just heard that my story "The Wastelands" was accepted into a new anthology out late 2012/early 2013 from Necro Publications, entitled INTO THE DARKNESS. They publish authors like Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Tom Piccirilli, Gary Braunbeck, Joe R. Lansdale and many others. I'm stoked. This is straight horror, people, dark, strange, and set in a near-future where golems and gaping holes in the earth threaten to devour you. More information to come.
I was just talking about this story, my losing entry in the WAR last year. Glad it has a home.
Laramore Black
from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8October 27, 2012 - 7:28pm
A little essay with my recent battles as a homeless youth and writer. Plus an announcement.
Bob Pastorella
from Groves, Texas is reading murder books trying to stay hip, I'm thinking of you, and you're out there so Say your prayers, Say your prayers, Say your prayers October 30, 2012 - 9:25am
My zombie western To Watch Is Madness is now new and improved with FREE, only at Amazon.
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitOctober 30, 2012 - 10:06am
[post deleted] Whoops.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyOctober 30, 2012 - 3:20pm
Well, I did the America's Next Author thing. This Little Mind, thanks to you all who workshopped, is HERE.
Give it a rating, or a read at least. Thanks all.
Scott MacDonald
from UK is reading PerfidiaOctober 31, 2012 - 1:06am
A Hallowe'en promotion. My short story "The Walk" is free for download from Amazon today:
If you never saw the contents list, here are the writers included. Lots of LR fav's.
Richard Thomas – On A Bent Nail Head
Martin Garrity - Walking On Water
Bryan Howie – Tides
Bradley Sands - Giant Monster Attack!
Nathan Pettigrew – Today Our Future Is Born
Tony Rauch – That’s Where Your Real Parents Live
Rebecca Jones-Howe – Blue Hawaii
Andrez Bergen – An Octopus’ Grotto Is His Castle
Jessica Taylor – Just A Man
Paul D. Brazill – Catch As Catch Can
Chris Lewis Carter – Kill Screen
Amanda Gowin – Charlotte & Jolene: How To Make A Baby
Michael Paul Gonzalez – Ingénue
Fritz Wolfe – Jack?
Jay Slayton-Joslin – Awkward Mornings Beat Long Lonely Nights
Chester Pane – Dreadlocks™
Joshua D. Moyes – A Stronger Family
Nikki Guerlain - King Neptune Sucks Off The World’s Largest Potato!
Caleb J. Ross – Vertigo Unbalanced
Phil Jourdan – Vomit As A Talent
Laurance Kitts – Poetry
Clint Rhodes – ATTN: Human Resources
Dakota Taylor - A Day In The Life
Jeremy Robert Johnson – The Brilliant Idea
W. P. Johnson - Cold Heart
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksNovember 1, 2012 - 12:35pm
Speaking of stuff I'm in, I'm also the last story in Weird Noir, which went up on amazon today.
Got a story up over on Solarcide: Carl
Also won The Pitch's Best of Kansas City 2012: Best Local Writer
^ both Nathan's Pastor Coletti story and Brandon's Carl are very funny. Definitely worth a read ;-)
I loved "Carl". That's a fuckin trip. Good job, Brandon.
Thank you, gentlemen.
It's not much, but here I finally am! http://www.ebookmall.com/author/xuan-uyen
I was doing the ANA thing too but I just found out you have to sign up with ebookmall.com to vote, which seems like a marketing thing to me. I've asked them to remove my submission because I'm not down with people having to do that to vote.
@Jen, I read your story and liked it!
Congratulations, Brandon!
Congrats Brandon. That's fantastic.
Emma I'll try to check out your latest version of Crystal tonight.
Emma! Will read yours, got it printed out! Yay!
From what i can tell, that was a site error that they've now fixed. You don't have to sign up to vote, you just have to put in a name and a comment. You can't just rate the story totally anonymously.
Emma, I was wondering why we had only 181 instead of 182. This popularity contest isn't the greatest thing, but it'll break me out of my shell. I think I may go rogue and ask all of Portlandia to vote for me.
I don't like the popularity contest aspect either. Some of the higher ranked stories are just bad. It's like someone said once, it sucks to be a writer because there are only two kinds of books. Ones that are so good, you know you'll never be able to write that well, and ones that are so bad, you don't know why they're published and you're not.
At the time, yes, you had to sign up with the ebookmall commercial site in order to vote. That bothered me because you could just as easily have a sign in with OpenID/Twitter/FB and other options, which would keep the voting accountable. Instead they went the other route, and they admittedly share e-mails with "interested parties" for purposes including "marketing". So, spam. This condition made for cheap advertising, thus my inference that this is about marketing more than about finding literary talent. I shared my concern with them when I asked that they pull my story; perhaps others had the same concerns, if they've changed the login requirements.
I'm in no way knocking the contest or participants, as this was a personal choice for me. I didn't feel right asking friends and acquaintences to sign up with this site in order to support me.
There was also a rights issue that was brought up by my husband after he reviewed all the legal information. Ebookmall has non-exclusive rights to your story for twelve months, and the right to publish "in relation to" the contest. It means you can submit the same work to other non-exclusive publications. The story I chose is strong and I would like to submit it for publication. Some, but not all, of the publications are non-exclusive, but many of those want only "new", unpublished work, or work that's not been published in the last year. All work in the ANA contest is considered "published". (There was also the matter of all disputes being governed under Curacao law, which he didn't like the sound of, but that's just him being overprotective).
I've done all I can to post for votes. I've pretty much become a spammer, but it gave me a sense of understanding of what must be done to win. I even got a new Twitter account. Crazy!
The top 20 is almost all female writers.
My review of Amina Gautier's AT-RISK is now live at The Nervous Breakdown. Powerful collection of stories.
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthomas/2012/10/review-of-at-risk-by-...
.The Halloween issue of Surreal Grotesque is up. It features my erotica story, Atabey. It's about island spirits and sex. Mostly sex. Also available here.
My Zombie Western short story, To Watch Is Madness, is available on Amazon, only 99 cents. Check out, and if you do, please post a review if you can. Thanks.
We have a new story live today, from a new writer to our little haunt, one who is very much worth checking out.
Read City Lines by Terence Kuch here. It's a strange one. Maps and mania.
I'm new to the whole sharing business & I've never submitted anything but I made a tumblr for my poetry.
I write a restrictive form of haiku that is a little offbeat & hopefully adds some interest to an ancient poetic form. I don't really know how to get the word out so I thought maybe you all could help me!
tumblr
facebook
twitter
Please like///share///follow! I plan on eventually submitting to some places but not until I get more comfortable with my writing. Any criticism is welcome also! Thanks!
Hopefully this post is the right kind of whorish...
Pendragon: that http://xsilentcryx.tumblr.com/ is cool...
(bump)
Here's two things I've got going on.
A nice article remembering Sylvia Kristel, who died today at 60.
I've decided to consolidate my Obscuradrome Facebook page into the more easily pronounced Bob Pastorella Facebook page. The main purpose of this page is to promote the wonderful, talented people I've become associated with through out the years, and my own meager offerings as well. If I think it's cool, I'm going to share it. Please Like my page, it likes the likes.
Thanks, Boone!
A generous and thoughtful review of Herniated Roots, my debut neo-noir collection of short stories, is now live over at ManArchy Magazine.
http://manarchymag.com/core/2012/10/id-sell-my-soul-just-to-shove-her-pr...
Hey all, just found this thread.
Can I pre-whore? My first novel, Undead America: Zombie Days, Campfire Nights, hits estores on Halloween. I have a Facebook page for it. The trailer should be up shortly, too. Sooo...yeah. There's that. :-)
^sweet!
ManArchy Magazine is running a series of flash fiction horror stories from now until Halloween. My story "Gandaberunda" kicks it off.
http://manarchymag.com/core/2012/10/gandaberunda/author-richardthomas
Way to go, Leah and Richard!
Thanks, Utah! Congrats, Richard!
I love this thread - so much happy news!
To follow up on Richard's post, today's ManArchy flash fright is my own little chilling tale about getting nosey with noisy neighbors. Enjoy "Shivaree" and please do share if you dig.
Gordon, just read your story. Very cool. I am suddenly glad I have a loser's bracket to fall back on.
Gracias, kind sir. I hadn't really written any horror before because it's so tough to come up with something that isn't derivative—even though I've always wanted to try. So I combined personal experience (the first half), using the suspense of mysterious sounds, with some untapped mythology.
WAR's gonna be a real test—after the first round or two—because I'm hella, hella slow, relying on a lot of thematic development and layering that there's just not enough time for. Advantage: Utah. Maybe.
Shivaree was the nuts Gordan - feckin loved it!! Dig ya Horra man.
Did you... just say that you love nuts?
I do love nuts. But not 'Man satchel' nuts. Not that fond of my own to be honest. sure, I will keep them, but even shaven it doesn't improve the apperance... just looks like a couple of pounds of boild turkey giblets. But yes, I loved both the Highlanders Shivaree and nuts. Even peanuts, that are not technically a nut, but a pea.
You love pee.
Who doesn't?
It's sterile, and I like the taste.
Staying on topic, just can't resist sharing a couple of recent tweets.
Blink-Ink 2012 Pushcart Nominations
Alexandra Isacson - Manhattan
Corey Mesler - Dave and Grif and the Cat
Asha Khalaladkar - The Icelander
John Swain - Trampoline
Salley Reno - Hotel Khadijah
Dakota Taylor - The Passenger
Finally, some good news. I just heard that my story "The Wastelands" was accepted into a new anthology out late 2012/early 2013 from Necro Publications, entitled INTO THE DARKNESS. They publish authors like Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Tom Piccirilli, Gary Braunbeck, Joe R. Lansdale and many others. I'm stoked. This is straight horror, people, dark, strange, and set in a near-future where golems and gaping holes in the earth threaten to devour you. More information to come.
I was just talking about this story, my losing entry in the WAR last year. Glad it has a home.
A little essay with my recent battles as a homeless youth and writer. Plus an announcement.
Don't Try This At Home
I recently had a neat interview with William Control go live at The Velvet.
My zombie western To Watch Is Madness is now new and improved with FREE, only at Amazon.
[post deleted] Whoops.
Well, I did the America's Next Author thing. This Little Mind, thanks to you all who workshopped, is HERE.
Give it a rating, or a read at least. Thanks all.
A Hallowe'en promotion. My short story "The Walk" is free for download from Amazon today:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009QNRFUA
I've been doing this too, here's mine: http://www.ebookmall.com/author/stephen-conley
I'll read yours when i have a few minutes.
Thanks Conley, I'll get to yours asap!
NOVA PARADE is out on Kindle.
If you never saw the contents list, here are the writers included. Lots of LR fav's.
Richard Thomas – On A Bent Nail Head
Martin Garrity - Walking On Water
Bryan Howie – Tides
Bradley Sands - Giant Monster Attack!
Nathan Pettigrew – Today Our Future Is Born
Tony Rauch – That’s Where Your Real Parents Live
Rebecca Jones-Howe – Blue Hawaii
Andrez Bergen – An Octopus’ Grotto Is His Castle
Jessica Taylor – Just A Man
Paul D. Brazill – Catch As Catch Can
Chris Lewis Carter – Kill Screen
Amanda Gowin – Charlotte & Jolene: How To Make A Baby
Michael Paul Gonzalez – Ingénue
Fritz Wolfe – Jack?
Jay Slayton-Joslin – Awkward Mornings Beat Long Lonely Nights
Chester Pane – Dreadlocks™
Joshua D. Moyes – A Stronger Family
Nikki Guerlain - King Neptune Sucks Off The World’s Largest Potato!
Caleb J. Ross – Vertigo Unbalanced
Phil Jourdan – Vomit As A Talent
Laurance Kitts – Poetry
Clint Rhodes – ATTN: Human Resources
Dakota Taylor - A Day In The Life
Jeremy Robert Johnson – The Brilliant Idea
W. P. Johnson - Cold Heart
Speaking of stuff I'm in, I'm also the last story in Weird Noir, which went up on amazon today.
http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Noir-ebook/dp/B009YYF38M/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1351798325&sr=8-4&keywords=Weird+Noir
The issue of One Buck Horror that I'm in is also coming out soonish.
Bill's really on a roll just now. You're killing it, man.
Also - 1000th post in the Whore's thread. Syphilis all over these parts!