Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 4, 2012 - 2:27pm
okay, so i lied, i'm posting this before it actually goes live. i'm just so freakin excited! anyhow Succubus in the Attic has just been placed in Phantasmagorium for their new weekly story section. Here's a few of the nice things the weekly story editor, Edward Morris, had to say:
"I expect, when reading your work, to get about half a page in and have the fourth wall, the ceiling, the floor, just about everything, ripped away, before much of the story even starts, and you're hanging in thin air being borne aloft by the Judgement Trump of this incredible backstory that comes back later and does a tapdance number a page from the end. This one did not disappoint in that sense. There are rules and steps to this kind of stuff, and it's a different pair of lenses than my usual, but they are rules and steps you *know*. There is *construction* here. Management Likes :)"
"OK, finished. It is not mere Absurdism, it is High Bizarro. Fits the whole form, lock stock and barrell. Fine representation of the genre for a Weekly story. One line edit and good to go, when it's up."
i don't know about you, but getting feedback like this makes my fucking week. :-)
cheers,
nikki
Laramore Black
from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8April 4, 2012 - 2:30pm
Congrats Nikki!!
Also, it's like my third post in 24 hours but here's my interview with Jonny Gibbings.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 4, 2012 - 2:31pm
Thx Laurance! I'll check out that interview after i make cupcakes! :)
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 4, 2012 - 2:32pm
Yes! Mine too actually.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 4, 2012 - 2:35pm
sweet chestie!
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 4, 2012 - 3:01pm
@Laurance: Whores have no post ceiling! Nice interviews bitch.
@Richard: I am so jealous. Can't wait to see that monster. Cool concept man, very cool.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesApril 4, 2012 - 5:43pm
@chester - thanks.
@nikki - how awesome, your story was intense, seems like it found the right audience, which is always cool.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 4, 2012 - 5:55pm
@richard thx! i don't shotgun my submissions or i probably would have loads of rejections. :-) there's really only a handful of places and editors that'd want to put this out to people. i think bizarro is really coming into its own. i'm hoping to be a part of this.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesApril 4, 2012 - 6:26pm
Terror Scribes is out. New anthology from Dog Horn Publishing. My story "Transmogrify" is in here, energy vampires! (Yes, it's a reprint.)
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 4, 2012 - 8:11pm
Holy shit, that's a nice cover
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesApril 4, 2012 - 10:05pm
yeah, i love the art.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 4, 2012 - 10:20pm
Yes awesome art.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 4, 2012 - 10:48pm
Ahhhhrt.
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksApril 5, 2012 - 9:39am
I guess I can plug my blog here too? I just posted something about the submission process based on my email correspondence with Pulp Modern over the acceptance of my short story "White Light, White Heat". Will probably be of more interest to people just starting out, as it shows you all the "behind the scene" stuff of geting a story accepted under the conditions of a rewrite.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 5, 2012 - 1:20pm
Slightly delayed, but cheers @ Laurance for running the story. Glad you liked it.
@ Richard, I think I remember that one. Will check it out soon. Good stuff.
@ Bill. Nice one. And yes, you should definitely plug your blog posts here.
Ziggy Tausend
April 5, 2012 - 3:51pm
Send your funny bone on an adventure with Captain Tripp Vaguely!
How's that for a tag line? The Court of the Spider Queen is my first short story and my first self-publication via Amazon. A swift, humorous Edisonade through myth and fantasy, my one and only rejection letter described "an amusing and skillful voice" (Tor.com). At a measly 99¢ (the lowest Amazon will allow) and with extras from clandestinetales.com such as background stories, sneak peeks, artwork and a glossary of terms, it is well worth the price. Wait. That makes me sound cheap doesn't it? Well... I am whoring after all. Let me do it big.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 5, 2012 - 4:17pm
Great title Ziggy!
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesApril 5, 2012 - 5:02pm
Cool cover too
Damon Teufel
April 5, 2012 - 8:06pm
Indeed, good cover!
Ziggy Tausend
April 5, 2012 - 8:08pm
Why thank y'all!
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 5, 2012 - 11:25pm
Dear Daniel,
We are please to inform you that King Me will appear in our next edition of the "Fresh Fish" quarterly journal, which will be released on June 1, 2012. We thank you very much for your submission and hope to read more of your work again in the future.
Thanks again.
Sincerely yours,
Walleyed Press
PS. This was my story I submitted for Round one of WAR. Thanks for the prompt!
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 5, 2012 - 11:27pm
congratz alien. i'd like to see all of these get placed. that'd be so awesome!
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.April 5, 2012 - 11:42pm
It's good for getting published. Congrats, Mr. 77.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesApril 6, 2012 - 7:39am
congrats, alien! my story from the first round, "On a Bent Nail Head" will be in an upcoming anthology released by Solarcide, and my second round story, "Vision Quest" was picked up by Surreal Grotesque. lots of love here at LR for my work, which means a lot to me. i'm shopping my third round story, can't say the title right now. would be cool if we did a WAR anthology, right? (no, i'm not volunteering)
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksApril 6, 2012 - 7:45am
Congrats, and I second Richard's thanks to all the litreactors that are supporting the writers here, and am also thankful to not be in charge of publishing anything because that would make me cry.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 6, 2012 - 9:16am
Haha, Richard, OABNH was from Thunderdome not WAR right?
And yeah, my planned collection for later this year is like the worst kept secret ever. Mainly because I get excited and blab about it heh. I've already contacted a few folks here about it. Once WAR is done I will posting a lot more stuff about the plans here.
Hint, it is going to be awesome. Watch this space.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 6, 2012 - 10:40am
Yeah, that was Thunderdome. Richard is so goddamned proliferate he doesn't know where his stories originated. Like he went out and banged a stray...had a helluva time...and woke up with a beautiful child.
@Ziggy Tausend: Nice effin name.
@Damon Teufel: Nice effin name.
Teufel and Tausend.
Thousands of devils.
Caleb J. Ross
from Kansas City, KS is reading on the toilet by himselfApril 6, 2012 - 2:37pm
@aliensoul77, muchos congrats!
As for my whoring, OWP has put Stranger Will on Amazon for FREE for the next few days, until Sunday (April 8th). Free for all! Please, share this, help stroke my ego by getting this book to the top of the Amazon rankings, even if the list is for Fiction-Terrible-Benches-Abortion [theme and description]. Share on FB and Twitter if you are so inclined. Make people hate you with all the sharing. Kill 'em with sharing!
For those who may not remember, Stranger Will was The Cult book club pick a few months back. People seem to dig it.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesApril 7, 2012 - 7:05am
ha. sorry, thunderdome and war all blend together in my head. and sorry if i wasn't supposed to talk about that anthology, thought it was public knowledge, my bad.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 7, 2012 - 8:16am
Nah it's all good Richard. The only reason I haven't been making more noise about it myself is that I was waiting for WAR and some things Nathan has been busy with recently to be wrapped up. Gonna be posting plenty about it soon enough.
OABNH rocked, by the way.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 7, 2012 - 8:19am
Damn double posts. My internet connection sucks today.
.
April 7, 2012 - 1:47pm
Some how I got booked to do a reading at a field party. Well I guess at least it's a little productive.
Laramore Black
from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8April 8, 2012 - 3:34pm
(I've mentioned it on other places, but (ex-Misfit frontman) Michale Graves just confirmed an interview. This little soft launch seems to be going quite well, yes?)
.
April 8, 2012 - 3:42pm
Good job dude.
Caleb J. Ross
from Kansas City, KS is reading on the toilet by himselfApril 8, 2012 - 6:57pm
(I've mentioned it on other places, but (ex-Misfit frontman) Michale Graves just confirmed an interview. This little soft launch seems to be going quite well, yes?)
Liked
Caleb J. Ross
from Kansas City, KS is reading on the toilet by himselfApril 9, 2012 - 7:01pm
Another quick bit-o-whoring. After more than a few (a few+2) questions regarding the paperback availability of my first story chapbook Charactered Pieces, I’ve decided to do something with the distribution rights I’ve been squatting on for a couple years now. Why the squat? Laziness, mostly.
Re-available for your tactile reading pleasure, Charactered Pieces: stories is now back in print. Right now, it’s only at Amazon, but the rest of the internet stores should catch up within the next couple of weeks.
I've been on a writing binge lately, but all novels. At the end of this week I'll have two unedited first drafts (one 110k, another 80k).
I just haven't had much time for shorts.
Oh, and you can also check out the new Sparks Fantasy Anthology, which has my Chicago-based shapeshifter story "Big, Blue Steel," and the new edition of Bards and Sages Quarterly, which contains my short "Street Lamps and Carbaryl".
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 10, 2012 - 5:58am
@ Caleb - good stuff bro. Love that little book.
Buy it people, you won't regret it.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 3:20pm
That is funny, I always just happen not to check this thread at the right time and miss Caleb's free book deadline. So damn bizzy. Remind me to keep a closer eye on this.
@Kitts: Roll bitch, roll.
@Martin: A Secret Anthology?
@Dakota: What is a field party?
So I finally have a little strumpeting to do: It looks like I will be joining Nikki Guerlain as part of the Phantasmagorium Weekly cast with my story Dreadlocks (Revised and expanded version).
I will be flapping my chops when it goes live like I just won Powerball.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 10, 2012 - 3:27pm
I got a story by Nik Korpon and one by Carlton Melnick for issue 2 of Surreal Grotesque.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 3:35pm
Nice Gonzalien!
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 10, 2012 - 3:56pm
@ Chester. Not so much secret really. Just waiting in the wings until me and Nath have a few more things on the schedule tied up. Groundwork is being lain.
@ Danny. That is awesome. Great stuff. Now about the sub I sent you? Ha.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 10, 2012 - 3:58pm
Oh, for sure, Martin. Issue 2.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 10, 2012 - 4:32pm
Awesome. Well in that case I have something to whore too.
My story The Deep Dark, from WAR round 2 is going to be in a sweet up-and-coming magazine. Alongside Nik Fucking Korpon and Carlton Fucking Mellick no less. I owe you a beer Danny, for sure.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 4:59pm
@Martin: Well, if you come to Wordstock, then you can back that offer up.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 10, 2012 - 8:49pm
Congratz everyone.
@chestie how fucking awesome is that? Trent Zelazny will be our company!
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 9:01pm
I am pumped Nikkles!
Zelazny? Serious? That is awesome.
This thing sounds like it is going to be pretty cool.
Sounds like Edward has a lot of material to work with.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
April 10, 2012 - 9:05pm
Yeah Zelazny's cool. You already go to The Willamette Sorcerer's writing group?
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazApril 10, 2012 - 9:15pm
No, not yet. I didn't realize it was so dang close to my house. It is now on my to do list.
Have you gone before?
Fritz
April 10, 2012 - 9:20pm
Hey peeps - new to the thread, just skimmed all the awesome stuff above. Congrats to all. Wanted to whore out one of my own little shorts so maybe more than 3 people will read it:
Check out infectiveink.com on 4/16/12 - look for a short story titled, 'Lost Dreams' - that'd be me (and no, not under Fritz Wolfe - different Name).
Kinda surprised the story got picked up. Its rough as hell and about 8 years old to boot. But, it fit the monthly prompt contest well so I sent it along and won that bastard. Even got a little money in my pocket for the effort.
okay, so i lied, i'm posting this before it actually goes live. i'm just so freakin excited! anyhow Succubus in the Attic has just been placed in Phantasmagorium for their new weekly story section. Here's a few of the nice things the weekly story editor, Edward Morris, had to say:
"I expect, when reading your work, to get about half a page in and have the fourth wall, the ceiling, the floor, just about everything, ripped away, before much of the story even starts, and you're hanging in thin air being borne aloft by the Judgement Trump of this incredible backstory that comes back later and does a tapdance number a page from the end. This one did not disappoint in that sense. There are rules and steps to this kind of stuff, and it's a different pair of lenses than my usual, but they are rules and steps you *know*. There is *construction* here. Management Likes :)"
"OK, finished. It is not mere Absurdism, it is High Bizarro. Fits the whole form, lock stock and barrell. Fine representation of the genre for a Weekly story. One line edit and good to go, when it's up."
i don't know about you, but getting feedback like this makes my fucking week. :-)
cheers,
nikki
Congrats Nikki!!
Also, it's like my third post in 24 hours but here's my interview with Jonny Gibbings.
Thx Laurance! I'll check out that interview after i make cupcakes! :)
Yes! Mine too actually.
sweet chestie!
@Laurance: Whores have no post ceiling! Nice interviews bitch.
@Richard: I am so jealous. Can't wait to see that monster. Cool concept man, very cool.
@chester - thanks.
@nikki - how awesome, your story was intense, seems like it found the right audience, which is always cool.
@richard thx! i don't shotgun my submissions or i probably would have loads of rejections. :-) there's really only a handful of places and editors that'd want to put this out to people. i think bizarro is really coming into its own. i'm hoping to be a part of this.
Terror Scribes is out. New anthology from Dog Horn Publishing. My story "Transmogrify" is in here, energy vampires! (Yes, it's a reprint.)
http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-lowe-and-chris-kelso/terror-scribes/paperb...
Great job, Adam Lowe and Chris Kelso.
Holy shit, that's a nice cover
yeah, i love the art.
Yes awesome art.
Ahhhhrt.
I guess I can plug my blog here too? I just posted something about the submission process based on my email correspondence with Pulp Modern over the acceptance of my short story "White Light, White Heat". Will probably be of more interest to people just starting out, as it shows you all the "behind the scene" stuff of geting a story accepted under the conditions of a rewrite.
http://americantypo.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/house-of-a-thousand-rewrites-part-ii/
-Bill
Slightly delayed, but cheers @ Laurance for running the story. Glad you liked it.
@ Richard, I think I remember that one. Will check it out soon. Good stuff.
@ Bill. Nice one. And yes, you should definitely plug your blog posts here.
How's that for a tag line? The Court of the Spider Queen is my first short story and my first self-publication via Amazon. A swift, humorous Edisonade through myth and fantasy, my one and only rejection letter described "an amusing and skillful voice" (Tor.com). At a measly 99¢ (the lowest Amazon will allow) and with extras from clandestinetales.com such as background stories, sneak peeks, artwork and a glossary of terms, it is well worth the price. Wait. That makes me sound cheap doesn't it? Well... I am whoring after all. Let me do it big.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IY1XKCGreat title Ziggy!
Cool cover too
Indeed, good cover!
Why thank y'all!
Dear Daniel,
We are please to inform you that King Me will appear in our next edition of the "Fresh Fish" quarterly journal, which will be released on June 1, 2012. We thank you very much for your submission and hope to read more of your work again in the future.
Thanks again.
Sincerely yours,
Walleyed Press
PS. This was my story I submitted for Round one of WAR. Thanks for the prompt!
congratz alien. i'd like to see all of these get placed. that'd be so awesome!
Well, now we know the answer to the question: War, huh, good god y'all, what is it good for?
It's good for getting published. Congrats, Mr. 77.
congrats, alien! my story from the first round, "On a Bent Nail Head" will be in an upcoming anthology released by Solarcide, and my second round story, "Vision Quest" was picked up by Surreal Grotesque. lots of love here at LR for my work, which means a lot to me. i'm shopping my third round story, can't say the title right now. would be cool if we did a WAR anthology, right? (no, i'm not volunteering)
Congrats, and I second Richard's thanks to all the litreactors that are supporting the writers here, and am also thankful to not be in charge of publishing anything because that would make me cry.
Haha, Richard, OABNH was from Thunderdome not WAR right?
And yeah, my planned collection for later this year is like the worst kept secret ever. Mainly because I get excited and blab about it heh. I've already contacted a few folks here about it. Once WAR is done I will posting a lot more stuff about the plans here.
Hint, it is going to be awesome. Watch this space.
Yeah, that was Thunderdome. Richard is so goddamned proliferate he doesn't know where his stories originated. Like he went out and banged a stray...had a helluva time...and woke up with a beautiful child.
@Ziggy Tausend: Nice effin name.
@Damon Teufel: Nice effin name.
Teufel and Tausend.
Thousands of devils.
@aliensoul77, muchos congrats!
As for my whoring, OWP has put Stranger Will on Amazon for FREE for the next few days, until Sunday (April 8th). Free for all! Please, share this, help stroke my ego by getting this book to the top of the Amazon rankings, even if the list is for Fiction-Terrible-Benches-Abortion [theme and description]. Share on FB and Twitter if you are so inclined. Make people hate you with all the sharing. Kill 'em with sharing!
Get here: http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Will-ebook/dp/B004SPJZ6I/
For those who may not remember, Stranger Will was The Cult book club pick a few months back. People seem to dig it.
ha. sorry, thunderdome and war all blend together in my head. and sorry if i wasn't supposed to talk about that anthology, thought it was public knowledge, my bad.
Nah it's all good Richard. The only reason I haven't been making more noise about it myself is that I was waiting for WAR and some things Nathan has been busy with recently to be wrapped up. Gonna be posting plenty about it soon enough.
OABNH rocked, by the way.
Damn double posts. My internet connection sucks today.
Some how I got booked to do a reading at a field party. Well I guess at least it's a little productive.
Some new stuff on my site:
Tricycle, by Brian Grant Ross
Bled Dry, by Damian Orona
Award winning photographer Eleanor Leonne Bennet
(I've mentioned it on other places, but (ex-Misfit frontman) Michale Graves just confirmed an interview. This little soft launch seems to be going quite well, yes?)
Good job dude.
Liked
Another quick bit-o-whoring. After more than a few (a few+2) questions regarding the paperback availability of my first story chapbook Charactered Pieces, I’ve decided to do something with the distribution rights I’ve been squatting on for a couple years now. Why the squat? Laziness, mostly.
Re-available for your tactile reading pleasure, Charactered Pieces: stories is now back in print. Right now, it’s only at Amazon, but the rest of the internet stores should catch up within the next couple of weeks.
The too-orange book with the weird hermaphroditic foot penis thing is now holdable in your very hands. Get the paperback version here: http://www.amazon.com/Charactered-Pieces-Caleb-J-Ross/dp/0615622135/
Wow, lots of cool stuff happening in this thread. Congrats, everyone.
My nightmare-inspired short story "Slarky" is set to appear in the Evil Inside Anthology. More info:
http://michaelhodgesfiction.com/
I've been on a writing binge lately, but all novels. At the end of this week I'll have two unedited first drafts (one 110k, another 80k).
I just haven't had much time for shorts.
Oh, and you can also check out the new Sparks Fantasy Anthology, which has my Chicago-based shapeshifter story "Big, Blue Steel," and the new edition of Bards and Sages Quarterly, which contains my short "Street Lamps and Carbaryl".
@ Caleb - good stuff bro. Love that little book.
Buy it people, you won't regret it.
That is funny, I always just happen not to check this thread at the right time and miss Caleb's free book deadline. So damn bizzy. Remind me to keep a closer eye on this.
@Kitts: Roll bitch, roll.
@Martin: A Secret Anthology?
@Dakota: What is a field party?
So I finally have a little strumpeting to do: It looks like I will be joining Nikki Guerlain as part of the Phantasmagorium Weekly cast with my story Dreadlocks (Revised and expanded version).
I will be flapping my chops when it goes live like I just won Powerball.
I got a story by Nik Korpon and one by Carlton Melnick for issue 2 of Surreal Grotesque.
Nice Gonzalien!
@ Chester. Not so much secret really. Just waiting in the wings until me and Nath have a few more things on the schedule tied up. Groundwork is being lain.
@ Danny. That is awesome. Great stuff. Now about the sub I sent you? Ha.
Oh, for sure, Martin. Issue 2.
Awesome. Well in that case I have something to whore too.
My story The Deep Dark, from WAR round 2 is going to be in a sweet up-and-coming magazine. Alongside Nik Fucking Korpon and Carlton Fucking Mellick no less. I owe you a beer Danny, for sure.
@Martin: Well, if you come to Wordstock, then you can back that offer up.
Congratz everyone.
@chestie how fucking awesome is that? Trent Zelazny will be our company!
I am pumped Nikkles!
Zelazny? Serious? That is awesome.
This thing sounds like it is going to be pretty cool.
Sounds like Edward has a lot of material to work with.
Yeah Zelazny's cool. You already go to The Willamette Sorcerer's writing group?
No, not yet. I didn't realize it was so dang close to my house. It is now on my to do list.
Have you gone before?
Hey peeps - new to the thread, just skimmed all the awesome stuff above. Congrats to all. Wanted to whore out one of my own little shorts so maybe more than 3 people will read it:
Check out infectiveink.com on 4/16/12 - look for a short story titled, 'Lost Dreams' - that'd be me (and no, not under Fritz Wolfe - different Name).
Kinda surprised the story got picked up. Its rough as hell and about 8 years old to boot. But, it fit the monthly prompt contest well so I sent it along and won that bastard. Even got a little money in my pocket for the effort.
Keep at it one and all.
Fritz.