Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 5, 2014 - 10:12am
My first BuzzFeed article is up. 15 Highly Anticipated (Mostly) Small Press Books. How many have you heard of, already planning to read? Some familiar names on here, as well as a few new and emerging voices. ENJOY!
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnFebruary 5, 2014 - 11:54am
Wow, lots of great stuff there, Richard. Looks like I'd better start socking away some dough. Thanks for posting.
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesFebruary 5, 2014 - 12:09pm
Awesome, Wendy! Snagged a copy.
And Richard--added a bunch of those to my list.
Wendy Hammer
from Indiana is reading One Night in SixesFebruary 5, 2014 - 3:40pm
Cool, Sarah!
Richard, that was a great list. My TBR pile grows and grows...and that makes me very happy indeed.
TheScrivener
from Seattle is reading short stories February 6, 2014 - 10:46am
Richard---I actually stumbled on that list yesterday! So it is getting around!
Shannon Barber
from Seattle is reading Paradoxia: A Predators Diary by Lydia LunchFebruary 6, 2014 - 3:34pm
Richard I was really into that article. I'm excited about some of those as well.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 7, 2014 - 7:28am
thanks, guys. yeah, lots of great books.
Alan H Jordan
from Reno, Nevada is reading Devotion by Dani Shaprio nd Now I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsFebruary 7, 2014 - 8:41pm
@Richard
Great article. Interesting choices.
Nathan
from Louisiana (South of New Orleans) is reading Re-reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah ReadFebruary 12, 2014 - 3:37pm
Long time no see, LitReactor! —I have several new stories coming out this year but this first one is special and draws from my southern roots—readers and fans of Crime Fiction can check out “Krewe of Bayou Black” along with 12 other new tales in the Mardi Gras Murder anthology that was released this week. The paperback edition is available here, while the digital/Kindle edition is available over here. I do appreciate the support and I’m psyched to see so much activity here in the whoring thread. Lots of good stuff.
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesFebruary 13, 2014 - 9:39am
Did you read anything other people posted?
Angel Colón
from The Bronx now living in New Jersey is reading A Big Ol' Pile of BooksFebruary 13, 2014 - 9:46am
Awesome to see so much activity in here.
In the last two days, I've gotten word that two of my pieces, "Getting the Word Back Out" and "Bastard's Rite" will be appearing in Shotgun Honey and Fiction on The Web respectively.
Obviously, I'll be screaming from the mountains once they're up (with links), but I've got no patience to keep a lid on it until then.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnFebruary 13, 2014 - 12:09pm
Nice one, Gosh Darn--congrats. Love Shotgun Honey.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland February 13, 2014 - 12:11pm
Me too. GDML Great placement. Can't wait to read it when its up.
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesFebruary 13, 2014 - 12:15pm
Shotgun Honey posts stories so frequently but there's no decline in quality at all. I've liked everything i've read there.
Angel Colón
from The Bronx now living in New Jersey is reading A Big Ol' Pile of BooksFebruary 13, 2014 - 1:45pm
Thanks for the kind words, guys.
Shotgun Honey was a major target when I started sending out submissions. Had a rejection (or two) from them, but I had to keep at it. Really excited that I finally came up to snuff.
Wendy Hammer
from Indiana is reading One Night in SixesFebruary 13, 2014 - 6:28pm
Congratulations, GDML. I'll be looking for them.
fortunewookie
February 13, 2014 - 7:11pm
Awesome job Nathan. So glad you're getting your work out there!
Nathan
from Louisiana (South of New Orleans) is reading Re-reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah ReadFebruary 19, 2014 - 2:56pm
@fortunewookie: Thanks a lot, Tony! It’s good to hear from you—and I know where to find you now…
I also have an update on Mardi Gras Murder—Solarcide has teamed up with Mystery and Horror, LLC for one of our Free Book Giveaways—2 winners will be announced this time.
Here are the details—provides direct links to everything needed to participate, too.
It's pretty straightforward and comes down to “liking” the new facebook page for MAHLLC, or the Solarcide page works, too—You don’t have to “like” both—can be one or the other but doing both gives you 2 chances instread of 1 and if you’ve already liked these pages before today, you’re still be eligible for a chance to win a copy when we have the drawing.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland February 20, 2014 - 11:17am
New story up at http://revoltdaily.com/ this morning. Be sure to keep up with us weekly. If the quality submissions keep up, we aim to publish a story a week,(every thursday morning)
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 21, 2014 - 6:29pm
We're giving away TEN COPIES of THE NEW BLACK, out this May. Enter, and spread the word.
Out on May 13, 2014. Design by Alban Fischer. A "best of" neo-noir from the last 5-10 year. Edited by Richard Thomas, foreword by Laird Barron. Stories by Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Lindsay Hunter, Roxane Gay, Kyle Minor, Benjamin Percy, Roy Kesey, Craig Davidson, Matt Bell, Richard Lange, Micaela Morrissette, Joe Meno, Vanessa Veselka, Nik Korpon, Antonia Crane, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Tara Laskowski, and Craig Wallwork.
USA only. Sorry. Postage sucks.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland February 21, 2014 - 8:40pm
Richard,
I entered to win it. Hope I do, but if not that's definitely going on my to buy list!!! I'll be eagerly awaiting the release.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 22, 2014 - 1:39pm
More good news. We got our first blurb for THE NEW BLACK today, from JACK KETCHUM!
"THE NEW BLACK ought to be the New High Standard for dark fiction anthologies. It's loaded with intelligence and talent. Every one of the pieces in this extraordinary compilation is worthy of your full attention."—Jack Ketchum
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinFebruary 22, 2014 - 2:07pm
Aww postage sucks. Oh well I was going to buy this anyway :)
Eddie McNamara
from NYC is reading High as the Horse's Bridles February 23, 2014 - 11:31am
I've got a story in Schlock Magazine It should be available for the Kindle shortly.
Shannon Barber
from Seattle is reading Paradoxia: A Predators Diary by Lydia LunchFebruary 23, 2014 - 3:57pm
I wrote a blog post that got picked up by Media Diversified in the UK about reading and writing while Black. That's a first for me I was pretty excited.
Nathan
from Louisiana (South of New Orleans) is reading Re-reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah ReadFebruary 23, 2014 - 6:01pm
Powerful read, Shannon. Congratulations on the publication. This sure puts things into perspective: “I knew that if I ever wanted to be the best selling lady version of Stephen King (my ambition at the time was to become an absolute horror goddess) I could not include a vision of myself, my family or anyone not the Average American, read as White people.”
There’s a show that my mother and I like called Luther—the main actor’s name is Idris Elba and I read somewhere that he might be the next James Bond.
My mom goes, “But James Bond’s white.”
Yeah that hit hard—I would’ve never imagined her saying anything like that—not based on how she raised me. I'll be shooting your post her way soon.
@Eddie: I’m not a hundred percent sure at the moment, but I want to say I’ve heard about Horrified Press from a peer—name ring’s a bell. I’ll check out Schlock 3 soon. Congrats.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreFebruary 23, 2014 - 6:55pm
It's sad feeling like you can't write what you want either because of your own skin color or that of your characters. I mean, of course you can write it for your own fulfillment, but will publishers want it? And will that be because of their own preferences/biases, or because of those they presume about their readership? Then you might feel limited to markets that cater specifically to ethnic/cultural issues. Those have never interested me much personally (as fiction, I mean; I'll read essays and whatnot), because they too often tend to be about the racial experience itself, lacking the plotty escapist spectacle I want in fiction. Same reason I probably wouldn't go to some AWP reading that's specifically an Asian Writers' Showcase or whatever (though I do understand that for those involved, such solidarity can be important in their development). Instead, give me a themed reading event (or anthology or zine) that happens to be comprised of talented writers of diverse backgrounds who tell amazing stories.
This feels like a topic deserving of a thread, if there isn't one.
Shannon Barber
from Seattle is reading Paradoxia: A Predators Diary by Lydia LunchFebruary 23, 2014 - 7:13pm
Thanks y'all.
There could be a topic. This is stuff I write and talk about a lot because it's deeply important to me.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnFebruary 23, 2014 - 10:48pm
Really dug that essay, Shannon! This broke my heart:
I spent a lot of time writing and as much time destroying what I wrote not because I hated it but because I did not believe that there was any room for my expression.
I resonated so much with that, even though my situation came from a different direction (religious repression/brainwashing). There's no worse thing for a writer than to have your identity lopped off from it to fit a perceived trend/appetite. Glad you're doing your thing now.
.
February 25, 2014 - 11:57am
My review of Good Sex, Great Prayers by Brandon Tietz.
TheScrivener
from Seattle is reading short stories February 25, 2014 - 8:24pm
Shannon---didn't you say you're reading at AWP? When and where?
Angel Colón
from The Bronx now living in New Jersey is reading A Big Ol' Pile of BooksFebruary 26, 2014 - 9:10am
Fantastic essay, Shannon. A lot of folks talk big game about literature and its power to expand horizons - then they immediately find a way to slam the door closed.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland March 6, 2014 - 5:48pm
Another new one up at Revolt Daily from noneother than the talented Emily Slaney. Go read Bear Traps! It is awesome!
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntMarch 7, 2014 - 2:09pm
Congrats, Em! Loved that story. Glad it found a good home.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMarch 7, 2014 - 2:11pm
Thank you Matt :)
Ben Freeman
from Charlottesville, Virginia is reading everything I canMarch 7, 2014 - 3:45pm
Nice Em! Glad that found a home, remember liking it (and still do after reading it again)
Andrez Bergen
from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will EisnerMarch 8, 2014 - 5:07am
Haven't been in here for ages! 'Allo, mates.
In case anyone's vaguely interested, I have a new story up with the cool cats @ Shotgun Honey.
Plus a new novel, Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth, out via Perfect Edge Books in mid 2014. Anyone here interested in picking up my first hack novel, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat — which lobs together noir and dystopia — can get the iPad/Kindle versions as a freebie over the next 2 weeks here.
Finally, we've started up an indie comic book publisher called IF? Commix in Melbourne (even though I live in Tokyo — shhh!) and have three comics out already that push and shove around the perimetres of pulp, sci-fi, noir and horror.
Alan H Jordan
from Reno, Nevada is reading Devotion by Dani Shaprio nd Now I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMarch 8, 2014 - 9:16am
@GoshDarnMyLife,
Angel,
Bastard's Rite is a great story and it's many reads too. Congrats!
Alan H Jordan
from Reno, Nevada is reading Devotion by Dani Shaprio nd Now I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMarch 8, 2014 - 9:42am
@Voodoo_em,
Emily,
Bear Traps, http://revoltdaily.org/bear-traps-emily-slaney/, is an interesting story that makes one think about life and the choices that we make. I love the line, " There’s more than one emergency exit in the human body." It created a crooked smile for, at just the right time.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMarch 8, 2014 - 3:00pm
Thanks Ben, thanks Alan.
Congrats Andrez, lots of cool news.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnMarch 9, 2014 - 12:54pm
The anthology, American Nightmare, by Kraken Press, is now for sale as ebook and print+ebook, and my story, "Chiaroscuro," is in it. One of my first forays into straight horror, I hope you all dig it.
Andrez Bergen
from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will EisnerMarch 10, 2014 - 12:15pm
Cheers, voodoo_em! ;)
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesMarch 10, 2014 - 12:42pm
Wow, congrats Shannon, Andrez, Em, Dino, and anyone else I missed. Really great stuff going on. I can't wait to read American Nightmare! I tried writing things for that, but every one of them turned into something else that didn't quite fit.
I do have some good news, though. My story "Golden Avery" (that was written and workshopped in Jack Ketchum's class) will be out in Black Static issue #40 in May.
And my story "Quarter Turn to Dawn" (which was also workshopped here) will be in the Suspended in Dusk anthology out from Books of the Dead Press later this year. It's got a number of awesome LitReactor members in it, and is edited by a LR member as well. :)
Wow--nice job, everyone. Lots of good stuff to read, here.
JDO--Grabbed a copy; thanks for the heads-up.
AffirmNation is out today in Issue 10 of Plasma Frequency.
http://www.plasmafrequencymagazine.com/CurrentI.html
...and it's a snow day. Hooray!
My first BuzzFeed article is up. 15 Highly Anticipated (Mostly) Small Press Books. How many have you heard of, already planning to read? Some familiar names on here, as well as a few new and emerging voices. ENJOY!
Wow, lots of great stuff there, Richard. Looks like I'd better start socking away some dough. Thanks for posting.
Awesome, Wendy! Snagged a copy.
And Richard--added a bunch of those to my list.
Cool, Sarah!
Richard, that was a great list. My TBR pile grows and grows...and that makes me very happy indeed.
Richard---I actually stumbled on that list yesterday! So it is getting around!
Richard I was really into that article. I'm excited about some of those as well.
thanks, guys. yeah, lots of great books.
@Richard
Great article. Interesting choices.
Long time no see, LitReactor! —I have several new stories coming out this year but this first one is special and draws from my southern roots—readers and fans of Crime Fiction can check out “Krewe of Bayou Black” along with 12 other new tales in the Mardi Gras Murder anthology that was released this week. The paperback edition is available here, while the digital/Kindle edition is available over here. I do appreciate the support and I’m psyched to see so much activity here in the whoring thread. Lots of good stuff.
Did you read anything other people posted?
Awesome to see so much activity in here.
In the last two days, I've gotten word that two of my pieces, "Getting the Word Back Out" and "Bastard's Rite" will be appearing in Shotgun Honey and Fiction on The Web respectively.
Obviously, I'll be screaming from the mountains once they're up (with links), but I've got no patience to keep a lid on it until then.
Nice one, Gosh Darn--congrats. Love Shotgun Honey.
Me too. GDML Great placement. Can't wait to read it when its up.
Shotgun Honey posts stories so frequently but there's no decline in quality at all. I've liked everything i've read there.
Thanks for the kind words, guys.
Shotgun Honey was a major target when I started sending out submissions. Had a rejection (or two) from them, but I had to keep at it. Really excited that I finally came up to snuff.
Congratulations, GDML. I'll be looking for them.
Awesome job Nathan. So glad you're getting your work out there!
@fortunewookie: Thanks a lot, Tony! It’s good to hear from you—and I know where to find you now…
I also have an update on Mardi Gras Murder—Solarcide has teamed up with Mystery and Horror, LLC for one of our Free Book Giveaways—2 winners will be announced this time.
Here are the details—provides direct links to everything needed to participate, too.
It's pretty straightforward and comes down to “liking” the new facebook page for MAHLLC, or the Solarcide page works, too—You don’t have to “like” both—can be one or the other but doing both gives you 2 chances instread of 1 and if you’ve already liked these pages before today, you’re still be eligible for a chance to win a copy when we have the drawing.
New story up at http://revoltdaily.com/ this morning. Be sure to keep up with us weekly. If the quality submissions keep up, we aim to publish a story a week,(every thursday morning)
This week, Molly Cool, by Ryan Holmes. Enjoy.
http://revoltdaily.org/molly-cool-ryan-holmes/
Good stuff showing up on Revolt Daily! Definitely recommend.
Hey folks, the first of the two pieces I recently had accepted is up. You can check it out here:
Bastard's Rite
We're giving away TEN COPIES of THE NEW BLACK, out this May. Enter, and spread the word.
Out on May 13, 2014. Design by Alban Fischer. A "best of" neo-noir from the last 5-10 year. Edited by Richard Thomas, foreword by Laird Barron. Stories by Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Lindsay Hunter, Roxane Gay, Kyle Minor, Benjamin Percy, Roy Kesey, Craig Davidson, Matt Bell, Richard Lange, Micaela Morrissette, Joe Meno, Vanessa Veselka, Nik Korpon, Antonia Crane, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Tara Laskowski, and Craig Wallwork.
USA only. Sorry. Postage sucks.
Richard,
I entered to win it. Hope I do, but if not that's definitely going on my to buy list!!! I'll be eagerly awaiting the release.
More good news. We got our first blurb for THE NEW BLACK today, from JACK KETCHUM!
Aww postage sucks. Oh well I was going to buy this anyway :)
I've got a story in Schlock Magazine It should be available for the Kindle shortly.
I wrote a blog post that got picked up by Media Diversified in the UK about reading and writing while Black. That's a first for me I was pretty excited.
Powerful read, Shannon. Congratulations on the publication. This sure puts things into perspective: “I knew that if I ever wanted to be the best selling lady version of Stephen King (my ambition at the time was to become an absolute horror goddess) I could not include a vision of myself, my family or anyone not the Average American, read as White people.”
There’s a show that my mother and I like called Luther—the main actor’s name is Idris Elba and I read somewhere that he might be the next James Bond.
My mom goes, “But James Bond’s white.”
Yeah that hit hard—I would’ve never imagined her saying anything like that—not based on how she raised me. I'll be shooting your post her way soon.
@Eddie: I’m not a hundred percent sure at the moment, but I want to say I’ve heard about Horrified Press from a peer—name ring’s a bell. I’ll check out Schlock 3 soon. Congrats.
It's sad feeling like you can't write what you want either because of your own skin color or that of your characters. I mean, of course you can write it for your own fulfillment, but will publishers want it? And will that be because of their own preferences/biases, or because of those they presume about their readership? Then you might feel limited to markets that cater specifically to ethnic/cultural issues. Those have never interested me much personally (as fiction, I mean; I'll read essays and whatnot), because they too often tend to be about the racial experience itself, lacking the plotty escapist spectacle I want in fiction. Same reason I probably wouldn't go to some AWP reading that's specifically an Asian Writers' Showcase or whatever (though I do understand that for those involved, such solidarity can be important in their development). Instead, give me a themed reading event (or anthology or zine) that happens to be comprised of talented writers of diverse backgrounds who tell amazing stories.
This feels like a topic deserving of a thread, if there isn't one.
Thanks y'all.
There could be a topic. This is stuff I write and talk about a lot because it's deeply important to me.
Really dug that essay, Shannon! This broke my heart:
I resonated so much with that, even though my situation came from a different direction (religious repression/brainwashing). There's no worse thing for a writer than to have your identity lopped off from it to fit a perceived trend/appetite. Glad you're doing your thing now.
My review of Good Sex, Great Prayers by Brandon Tietz.
The review on Revolt Daily
Shannon---didn't you say you're reading at AWP? When and where?
Fantastic essay, Shannon. A lot of folks talk big game about literature and its power to expand horizons - then they immediately find a way to slam the door closed.
Another new one up at Revolt Daily from noneother than the talented Emily Slaney. Go read Bear Traps! It is awesome!
http://revoltdaily.org/bear-traps-emily-slaney/
I did read I forgot to come back and tell you guys so here is the video from the thing.
Bear Traps! Good to see it found a home. It was a fun one, for sure.
Thanks for pimping me JR :)
Thanks Wendy :)
Bear Traps is now at Revolt Daily http://revoltdaily.org/bear-traps-emily-slaney/
Congrats, Em! Loved that story. Glad it found a good home.
Thank you Matt :)
Nice Em! Glad that found a home, remember liking it (and still do after reading it again)
Haven't been in here for ages! 'Allo, mates.
In case anyone's vaguely interested, I have a new story up with the cool cats @ Shotgun Honey.
Plus a new novel, Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth, out via Perfect Edge Books in mid 2014. Anyone here interested in picking up my first hack novel, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat — which lobs together noir and dystopia — can get the iPad/Kindle versions as a freebie over the next 2 weeks here.
Finally, we've started up an indie comic book publisher called IF? Commix in Melbourne (even though I live in Tokyo — shhh!) and have three comics out already that push and shove around the perimetres of pulp, sci-fi, noir and horror.
@GoshDarnMyLife,
Angel,
Bastard's Rite is a great story and it's many reads too. Congrats!
@Voodoo_em,
Emily,
Bear Traps, http://revoltdaily.org/bear-traps-emily-slaney/, is an interesting story that makes one think about life and the choices that we make. I love the line, " There’s more than one emergency exit in the human body." It created a crooked smile for, at just the right time.
Thanks Ben, thanks Alan.
Congrats Andrez, lots of cool news.
The anthology, American Nightmare, by Kraken Press, is now for sale as ebook and print+ebook, and my story, "Chiaroscuro," is in it. One of my first forays into straight horror, I hope you all dig it.
http://krakenpress.bigcartel.com/
Cheers, voodoo_em! ;)
Wow, congrats Shannon, Andrez, Em, Dino, and anyone else I missed. Really great stuff going on. I can't wait to read American Nightmare! I tried writing things for that, but every one of them turned into something else that didn't quite fit.
I do have some good news, though. My story "Golden Avery" (that was written and workshopped in Jack Ketchum's class) will be out in Black Static issue #40 in May.
And my story "Quarter Turn to Dawn" (which was also workshopped here) will be in the Suspended in Dusk anthology out from Books of the Dead Press later this year. It's got a number of awesome LitReactor members in it, and is edited by a LR member as well. :)