Well, we've got one of these at every other forum I'm in.
I've recently had wo stories go live.
The first is "Kiss Off" based on the Violent Femmes song. It's up at Emprise Review.
The second is "Twenty Reason to Stay and One to Leave" up at Metazen. Enjoy.
What do YOU have going on?
Let the record show that Richard started the first official "Official" discussion of LitReactor!
It is starting to feel like home in here.
The first two parts of my three-part epic album, Reading Journals, are, like, amazingly free to download.
And this is the first time I unveil the front cover of the CD, too.
http://parisandthehiltons.bandcamp.com/album/reading-journals-part-one-p...
http://parisandthehiltons.bandcamp.com/album/reading-journals-part-two-a...
Please. Download it. Otherwise nobody will.
I knew we could count on Richard to get the whoring party started. Yeah!
EDIT: Though, I suppose if this entire Discussion subforum is already dedicated to self-promotion, do we need this thread specifically, or just have people create individual ones for their stuff? Maybe quick-hits that aren't as likely to spark as much discussion can go here, and bigger stuff should get their own thread.
Yeah, we'll leave it to the community to decide how that should happen.
But I specifically added the category thinking that a lot of people are likely to have stuff to share around here. So anyone who wants to make a new discussion should be encouraged to do so.
This raises a question: will this zerocool subdirectory site be completely erased once the site goes live for real? I ask, because I've been putting some things out here that probably shouldn't stay (my review of one of Tietz's stories in the Writers Workshop, for example).
I can haz whorings?
I'll whores laterz-ish.
How 'bout them Chiefz, Gordon ;)
Caleb, we'll delete anything like that before we open the doors.
It helps us if you put in things that you don't mind us keeping, so when we open the place isn't toally empty, but just let me know anything you want deleted and I'll make sure to get it.
Richard,
I could not be in more agreement with you. Nothing irritates me more than an entirely new thread made because someone published a piece on their friend's Blogspot that's also doubling as a "lit mag."
Books are threadworthy. Publications like The Missouri Review or an anthology like Warmed and Bound are threadworthy too, IMO. Bascially, if you're in print or got paid or both, I can see a thread being made.
Otherwise, just toss it in the general whoring thread.
That should keep the threadcount down. The problem I see happening is users not differentiating between the two. Perhaps there should be some kind of verbiage drawn up illustrating the difference between which publications get their own thread and which ones don't.
Speaking of threadcount, would this be the appropriate place to promote the new line of bedding I'm endorsing? heh heh As if my face would help sell any such product. . . "Well, he does look well-rested . . ."
I do think we'd want to help limit the cross-posting of such whorings. Post it in one place where everyone knows to look for it, and be done with it. Also, if a piece is part of a series, or if there are multiple LR contributors to a project, those seem threadworthy as well. I don't know whether I could define all those criteria specifically, but some prudence is in order, yeah.
I'm a whore. There I said it.
If anyone has the time, please check out my darkly delightful children's book, The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black.
Available in e-book form here. Free sample available too of course: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unseen-Chronicles-Amelia-Black-ebook/dp/B005G8B7PS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312671020&sr=8-1
And paperback here: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-unseen-chronicles-of-amelia-black/16662299
Nice to find out where the Whores are hanging! I have something coming up myself, fellow whores, this month at InfectiveINk.com, which is here: http://infectiveink.com/
-Will be posting again when my story goes live. 'Till then, will be checking out everyone else's snatch.
The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black looks mighty interesting...
I'd like to throw out info for the flash fiction and anthology contests we're running at KazkaPress.net. We're looking for your writing, and we're paying you a little bit for it.
Monthly Flash Ficiton Contest: http://kazkapress.wordpress.com/flash-fiction-contest/ ($7.13 a story)
Bronies Anthology: http://kazkapress.wordpress.com/submissions/ ($10 a story)
Best,
L. Lambert Lawson
I just published my first book: Upright Citizens
It is about culture war, political division, and the struggle to see good in your enemies, told from the perspective of a group of socialist Marijuana growers and dealers as a conservative biker gang attempts to evict them from their town.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/88089
I also have a large number of short stories, which can be found in the links section at mentalc4.wordpress.com
Obviously, I have to whore out Warmed and Bound since it's basically the most stacked anthology to come out in a while.
Craig Clevenger, Stephen Graham Jones, and Blake Butler are in there, just to name a few.
Official site: http://www.warmedandbound.com/
Edited due to stupidity.
http://www.gatherkindling.com/see-kindling
You should subscribe to this awesome anit-zine lite-zine.
My story, Negative, got accepted over there. I notice on the contents page it is listed as Negative #6, as per my habit of denoting the revision step I am on with each successive iteration. This was merely my 6th rewrite, but that is neither here nor there.
You should all be submitting here as well. Great new market to get your name out, and really, a cool concept all around. Cheap as hell to subscribe to, BTW.
Also, look forward to my essay, No Quarter, at An American Atheist this Saturday.
I guess I'll be brave and whore out (gods, that sounds bad) the first thing I ever published: a short story that I wrote back in high school, polished up recently and then self-published just to start getting my name out into the world.
Vatican Vamps: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/73599
I wrote it for a creative writing course when the teacher told us that we had to remain in reality for this project as it was too hard to write a fantasy short story in the real world in under 10 pages. Of course, I had to show her wrong, and after completing the required research for the class on a city of my choosing, this is what I wrote.
I know it's not the best, but I guess that's why I'm here! :)
Will do as soon as I write something that I can feel the smallest bit proud in...
Yamnah, I've yet to find a day when that comes. Easiest thing I've found is to just try to be brave and dive in with both feet. I'm sure you're great!
Woo! I have something new to whore.
Thunderdome is running a collection of spooky stories throughout October. Creepy, haunted kinds of stories. Here's the list. There's a few names that some of you will be familiar with.
October 3: Sterling Road by Daniel Donche
October 6: Passersby by Christian Williams
October 10: 2X2L Calling PQ by Kristopher Monroe
October 12: Broken Things in a Box by DB Cox
October 17: Where the Horror Is by Martin Garrity
October 19: With All Fine Corpses by Katheryn Soverane
October 24: Needlemen of New Orleans by Matthew C Funk
October 26: Johnny Be Gone by Alexandria Ali
October 28: Order of the Ficus by Bob Pastorella
Gonna be some good stuff!
This isn't exactly a proper whoring, I don't think, but Spinetingler Magazine posted a review of my story Click-Clack (from Warmed and Bound) today. I'm floored. These are such kind words. Here's a few of the most flattering lines:
Click-Clack by Caleb J. Ross is attuned to these mortal rhythms, and makes them sing seamlessly in a narrative that is as much a ballad as it is lyrical prose. This vignette is a song masquerading as short story. It achieves this with a brilliance as flawless as any modern masterpiece of music.
Ross crafts wondrously illustrated personalities. Jack and Ernie are vivid as both symbols in a fable and people in a beautiful and brutal struggle.
This deep understanding of the dynamic between father and son is just one aspect of Click-Clack’s beauty. Ross also infuses the work with flourishes of consonance, rhyming words in a subtle way that make the power of rhythm a real force for the reader…His rhythms run through it like tides. They rise and fade in the writing like the passing of trains.
Click-Clack hits all the right notes. It is a pin-point, sad-hearted portrait of the track of birth and death that fathers and sons must follow. It took on speed, swept me up and kept echoing after it passed…Do not miss this train.
Read the full review at Spintingler Magazine. While there, take in some other words about stories from Warmed and Bound.
This shoudl go live later this morning: No Quarter
The entirety of my band's "lit-rock" album, based on the work of Faulkner, is now available for free (or at a name-your-own-price deal, if you want to pay for it).
It feels good to get this thing off my back at last.
The results for The Pitch's Best of 2011 just came out. I beat the fucking library! How does that happen?
Woo! I have something new to whore.
Thunderdome is running a collection of spooky stories throughout October. Creepy, haunted kinds of stories. Here's the list. There's a few names that some of you will be familiar with.
October 3: Sterling Road by Daniel Donche
October 6: Passersby by Christian Williams
October 10: 2X2L Calling PQ by Kristopher Monroe
October 12: Broken Things in a Box by DB Cox
October 17: Where the Horror Is by Martin Garrity
October 19: With All Fine Corpses by Katheryn Soverane
October 24: Needlemen of New Orleans by Matthew C Funk
October 26: Johnny Be Gone by Alexandria Ali
October 28: Order of the Ficus by Bob Pastorella
My debut story http://thundadome.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=135:passersby&Itemid=56
I see no whores here (except maybe chester). I'll just be moving on then.
@ Christian Williams
Congrats on the debut, man. Nice little piece.
I must join in!
My Website, which contains my publications and short films and other things: www.proleary.com
My film review website, which I was I use to make sure I get some quick writing practice in: www.reelfriction.com
The results for The Pitch's Best of 2011 just came out. I beat the fucking library! How does that happen?
Brandon, that's fucking awesome. I want you to come out to the West Coast for a few months and teach me your ways.
This is how I'm saving money for college: an eBay t-shirt store that my boyfriend and I run.
I just know there's some shirts here that you'd like to take a look at. ;)
This isn't whoring my writing, so much as means to allow me to write... so that I may whore my writing!
When Life Slips You A Jeffrey
Stroke The Furry Wall
Raelyn, how does it work? Someone just buys a T-shirt on your LOLZ thingy and you get dough?
My boyfriend works in a printing shop where he makes the shirts, and I package them and send them out. Just like any eBay store, the profits go to the seller, in this case me and my boyfriend. It's basically how we manage rent, and my college fund.
My haunted house tale went live at thunderdome. Good fun I hope.
It's the same version that was put up in the workshop here in that first week, and there might now be plans knocking around in my head to expand this one day.
I've been included in a themed anthology (on setting) that was put out by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography called Amsterdamned If You Do. Jason Pettus and his team make the books from scratch in-house, so they're pretty cool.
They're also available in e-format on a "pay what you want" system. For more info, go HERE
Hey all,
My short story, Kill Screen, has just been published in the latest issue of Murky Depths. If you're looking for a kick-ass mix of art and prose, this is the magazine for you. Head over to www.murkydepths.com and pick up a copy! I mean, come on, it's a story about a killer video game! What more do you people want? :)
Fuckin' aye! Congratulations Chris, Brandon and Martin -I will be buying and checking all of those out. I can also vouch, having read Kill Screen -that it kicks ass. Raelyn, do you have any links to your store?
Hmm, I had a link there earlier. Here's the URL: http://stores.ebay.com/lolzshirts
Good Job Martin, B.T. and C.L.C. Will read.
My newest flash fiction piece, "No Fly Zone," went live today at InfectiveINk.com.
And when I say flash fiction, I mean the shortest I've written -it's just a little something based on one of their prompts. It's also not too dark or violent which my stuff tends to be, with the exception of "Another Empty Nest" at Six Minute Magazine. Has to do with drinking.
@ Nath & Richard
Nice one, guys. These and Chris's podcast story are going to be my bedtime reading for tonight. (posting from my phone at the moment)
Seems a good day for Litreactor folk and their promotions.
Edit - Also, Brandon, I must have missed your post until now. Shall check that one out too.
My short story "Sae" just went live in CrimeFactory #8, if you're up for a bit of Tokyo noir:
http://www.crimefactoryzine.com/main/Home.html
(if you're wondering about the odd hyphens early on, so am I--appears to be a formatting error...)
And as bonus for all you book clubbers, Nik Korpon's in the same issue discussing his novel Stay God (with spoiler alerts).
And as if that weren't enough, if I'm not mistaken you can jump into CrimeFactory #7 to find a story by our esteemed threadstarter Mr. Richard Thomas (it doesn't appear to be catalogued yet, but I'm sure will be shortly).
Whores galores...
Raelyn, I'll be buying at least three of your shirts very soon. Probably "Project Mayhem," "Jack's Comlete Lack of Surprise," and the V for Vendetta one. Or "It's a trap!" Anyway, very nice. Best of luck with the project.
"Start One" by D. Scott Hanson (by me). Currently have four chapters in the LitReactor gauntlet. It's a completed novel that needs your spit polish or acid bath, depending.
I NEED YOUR HELP. Please review.
Whoring,
Dave
Nov. 16th I'll be competing in Literary Death Match.
Doors open at 7:30p/show will start at 8:30p (sharp)
Happening at The Brick, 1727 McGee in KCMO
**click the link above for more details**
"Gourmet" from the upcoming Vanity collection is now live at The Nervous Breakdown HERE.