Hey guys. The first anthology from Thunderdome Press is coming out soon. Is a great online website that has contacted the previous authors for an awesome anthology. It incorporates photography, which each picture inspires a story that is, as cliche as it sounds, 1000 words.
Here's some information copied and pasted from the website:
11/23/11 - ThunderDome's First Print Collection!
…In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
Inspired by photographs taken around the Los Angeles area, the book features short stories from 26 authors, including Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook, MacAdam/Cage Publishing), Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate, Otherworld Publications), Nik Korpon (Stay God, Otherworld Publications), Simon West-Bulford (The Soul Consortium, Medallion Press), Pela Via (Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology, Velvet Press), Gordon Highland (Major Inversions), L.A. Poet Dennis Cruz, and emerging writers from around the world who are making their voices heard.
Each author was asked to select a photograph from a collection taken by the editor and write a story of precisely 1,000 words inspired by what they saw – no more, no less. The result is quintessential Los Angeles: Dreams, Drugs, Hallucinations, Romance, Life and Death, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Redemption. Like the city itself, the book is multifaceted, hard to label and even harder to put down.
…In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
Available on www.Amazon.com and www.ThundaDome.com/LA1K
on November 23rd, 2011
This looks really awesome.
I love flash. That immediate gratification. Thanks for the headsup Slayton-Joslin.
Will this be available as an e-book?
Yeah, it will be. The initial trouble is that since the photography is such a key element, it wouldn't look that great on an e-ink kindle. I think it will be released for normal e-formats and then a cheaper black and white edition later on.
I didn't think of that. I will pick up a couple copies for my friends and I. Also, what will the price be for the paperback?
It looks like it's gonna retail at $25. If you like the FB page: http://www.facebook.com/ThundaDome , you get some discount.
i just got my copies and it's beautiful. not to mention some fantastic stories, i mean, really, there isn't a weak one in the bunch. i know, $25 is steep, but use the coupon code. it's really worth it for the art, and the way the stories work WITH the photography.
my story "the jenny store" is kind of inspired by blade runner.
I'm looking forward to reading this. Thunderdome rocks - always a high quality output of stories. Also they've run a couple of mine so yeah, love em' for that.
I ordered this and am waiting for the shipping. Had to order it from Amazon US which is a little annoying but it should get here before Xmas anyways.
Congrats again to Richard, Jay, and Bob (plus anyone else in the book that uses Litreactor. Clevenger and Korpon post here sometimes so congrats to those guys too.)
Can't wait to get my hands on this! If Clevenger's in it, I'm reading it. Period.
Needed bumping.
This book is very cool, people. I'm not even halfway through the stories (trying not to rush them) and already I'm sold. This is a great little collection.
So far Craig Clevenger, Pela Via, Doc O' Donnell, and Nikki Guerlain have been leading the pack for me. Really good stories. Nikki's in particular is my favorite so far.
Amongst others I have Richard, Bob, Jay, & Gordon's stories still to read. There is a strong Litreactor vibe amongst the list of authors.
Finished.
This was very good. I am going to be rereading at some point. This is a great little book for passing the odd quarter hour here or there. Congrats to all you reactors with stories in there.
Top 3 - Nikki Guerlain, Amanda Gowin, & Richard Thomas. Not one bad story amongst the whole bunch though.
I haven't read this one yet but Amanda Gowin always kills...
Yeahn it's a solid one. I really dug the clevenger and jim Morrison one.
thanks WV, appreciate the shout out
Haha.
The spambot bumped the thread because it heard about the E-book version and the tie-in stories over at Thunderdome.
Clever spambot.
I was just flipping though it the other day. Nikki and Richard's stories were definitely two of my favorites in that one. Bob's definitely was up in the top 5 for me along with Amanda's. Though I think I'm biased on those.
you guys are awesome :)
Yes you guys are totally awesome. Btw, the sequel to sick ticket is up at thundadome.com if I haven't bugged you about it already. :-)
thanks, grig! mostly people salivate over Nikki. glad to hear that you liked it. i don't write a lot of science fiction, but this was a lot of fun.
This looks awesome! Thanks for sharing. I just moved to LA in January, and I am in love with this city.
mostly people salivate over Nikki
-I think we could concoct similar terms of endearment for all of the above, but I will spare everyone the juicy details in that regard.
I'm gonna have to pick this up. Prime membership gives it to me for free for a month. I wonder how much money the publishers get paid for that...
that's awesome howie. it's a great compilation of short stories. as well, the photographs are really cool.
@chestie everyone is juicey here! so juicey, in fact, that i think y'all should be in one of my short stories. muahahaha. what will she make me do?! and to whom? and to what?
Prime membership gives it to me for free for a month.
what does that mean? like the text is online/kindle-accessible for a month?
If you have Amazon Prime, you can borrow the e-book for Kindle for a month for free. It's part of their Kindle Prime Lending Library.
And so far, the stories by Richard's, Nikki's, and Craig's are all great.
oh! i thought you meant prime membership here, like the workshop - that's what i couldn't figure out.
thanks howie, awesome. be sure to post up kind words, people, at amazon. not just about my story (yes, my story) but whatever stories stood out for you. michael worked really hard on this anthology.
(yeah, mine, too. love my story and tell people IN WORDS)
In Search of a Clitty.
I bet someone has already done that, but just in case.
I doubt it. The clits just a myth, right?!
@chestie that can be the portland edition In Search of a Clitty: Portland in 1000 words
@Chester
I think it was an episode of South Park actually...
Guess what guys? Just scheduled a photo shoot with bishops barbershops. They're going to feature me as a Portland writer in their ad campaign and I get to plug LA1K! The ad runs on the back page of The Portland Mercury and on Facebook. How cool is that?!
VERY and also even SUPER - that's how cool!!! <3
awesome. that's some great promotion. have fun.
Good lord, I have a lot of catching up to do in these forums . . . totally missed the boat on this thread. It is indeed a killer anthology, and contains my favorite of my own shorts. And if the $25 scared you off before, the Kindle edition is defintely a steal at three bucks. Hopefully Mike'll get those other e-versions out later this year.
Three dollars is a total steal. People that don't get it at that prize are crazy fools.
Good luck with that Gordon.
Aw man! I was excited because I have a few words about LA. Lol. I wonder if anyone can convince me that LA is worth a second shot?
this book will convince you it's a nice concept, a dream place, not a real place. i wrote my story before i'd ever been there. i think a lot of the stories are that way - the Dream of Hollywood and Glamour as opposed to Let's All Move There! :)
Oh yeah, and a bit of whoring/preview if you like. . . I read my story from ths anthology at an event last week. That segment begins at the 9:06 mark.
Nice Gordon!
