Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 15, 2013 - 11:50am
thanks! happy to have it up there, in some good company.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksFebruary 15, 2013 - 2:20pm
We had some trouble with the preview and Wordpress accidentally scheduled it rather than publish it, but I worked out the kinks and the first installment of FUNERAL SONGS, Forecasting, went live today.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreFebruary 15, 2013 - 8:52pm
The February issue of Word Riot, available now, features my flash fiction "Speed Ramp," written right here for the WAR2 competition. I've provided them an audio version as well, for the multitaskers among you.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 15, 2013 - 9:16pm
very cool, gordon. love WR.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreFebruary 15, 2013 - 9:25pm
Thanks, RT. Until they asked if I wanted to include an MP3, I had forgotten they did those, and it reminded me that I narrated one of your own for them a few years back.
Carly Berg
from USA is reading Story Prompts That Work by Carly Berg is now available at AmazonFebruary 15, 2013 - 10:56pm
Congrats, Gordon! Word Riot accepted a story from me last year and as I'm sure I've said on here before, it was after 23 rejections. They're tough! :)
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitFebruary 16, 2013 - 10:52am
From my blog:
As I mentioned a week or so ago, I’ll be writing a new weekly column over at the newly revamped Amazing Stories blog. Not only is it an honor to be working with the latest incarnation of the world’s very first science fiction magazine, but I’m also thrilled at the opportunity to write about science fiction, fantasy, and horror (geek culture) films for a growing audience.
J David Osborne
from Portland, OR
February 17, 2013 - 10:13pm
Second novel is available on the Amazon! If you're a fan of the Coen Brothers or David Lynch or Cormac McCarthy, hey, me too. Maybe we should hang out.
From the inside:
Trapped in a rural Oklahoma town fueled by meth and doused in codeine, Arlo Clancy has made it his life's goal to keep his troubled younger brother, Sepp, out of prison. Poverty and the lure of easy drug money were pressure enough, before a gruesome discovery beneath the waters of their favorite fishing hole sent their lives into a tailspin.
Torn by cowardice and conscience, the brothers make a fateful decision which will bring them ever-closer to Danny Ames--a vicious enforcer for the local meth trade--and a nightmare world where their only chance of escape might be...
LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY
“There is something old and wise and sad and forever cool about J. David Osborne. LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY is about meth, fishing, trash American culture and young adult despair. Imagine a Raymond Carver or Jim Thompson for the text message age and that would only begin to get it.”—KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of Reverend America and Sea Monkeys
"A gritty tapestry of subversive drama the likes of which I'd compare to Harmony Korine's Gummo packed in with the terse lines of Bukowski."--MICHAEL J. SEIDLINGER, author of My Pet Serial Killer and The Sky Conducting
"LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY is working class fiction at its best. It reeks of desperation, busted dreams, and hard times. But mostly, it reeks of literary talent. Whatever J. David Osborne writes, I'm reading. And you'd better too."--BENJAMIN WHITMER, author of Pike and co-author of Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
"J. David Osborne holds a literary style distinctive enough to raise his work above the waterline of contemporary fiction. LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY challenges and hurts and mystifies its readers. The weave of characters is stunning. Intricate storylines cross and worm through each other to form a dense and powerful mystery."--MANARCHY MAGAZINE
"In LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY, Osborne reaches out into the scabrous hinterlands of landlocked nowhere to unveil an intertwined collection of reluctant dreamers and three time losers, all trying to get by while navigating rusted out acres of convenience store ice heads, run down bars, and greasy doublewides. Strange, brutal, yet disturbingly familiar, this is the sort of story you can taste on the back of your tongue, and makes you appreciate every last clean and hopeful thing you have in your life."--DARK INTENT
"A highly talented new author. Osborne is one to watch."--BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
Also, ManArchy has an excerpt here and a review of it here.
Carly Berg
from USA is reading Story Prompts That Work by Carly Berg is now available at AmazonFebruary 17, 2013 - 11:39pm
Congrats, guys. :) :)
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeFebruary 18, 2013 - 1:22am
Going to check out Low Down Death Right Easy: you had me at the Saknussemm blurb. That cover is badass as well.
Brandon
from KCMO is reading Made to BreakFebruary 18, 2013 - 1:28pm
My girlfriend thought it was really funny. I showed it to her when found it last week because i have Google Alerts, which emails me anytime my name is used in a blog or a news story. It's all fake, don't worry. Any info on there was pulled from my Facebook page. Good thing nobody's heard of that website and nobody reads it, huh?
J David Osborne
from Portland, OR
February 19, 2013 - 1:14pm
Thanks Jeffrey! Matthew Revert did the cover. He's such a fucking badass, I wish he did every cover to everything ever.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesFebruary 20, 2013 - 10:08am
I'm teaching a class here at LitReactor on how to edit your fiction. Hope to see you there. Two weeks, starts March 28th.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 22, 2013 - 10:32am
The second installment of my series The Naomi Shots can be read here:
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeFebruary 22, 2013 - 4:15pm
@ J David Osborne,I knew the name Matthew Revert from somewhere - I'd sampled some of his stuff on the Legumeman books site. Is there an ebook version of Low Down Death Right Easy planned? I'm afraid I am too spoiled by my Kindle.
In me-whoring news, my flash fiction horror story 'Man of the House' appears in eHorror Magazine's February issue.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland February 22, 2013 - 6:22pm
Congrats Jeffery, I'll check that out tomorrow.
Linda
from Sweden is reading Fearful Symmetries February 23, 2013 - 3:28am
Congrats everyone!
J David Osborne, that is a very attractive cover.
J David Osborne
from Portland, OR
February 23, 2013 - 2:02pm
Jeffrey: there oughta be a Kindle edition in the near future!
Linda: Thank ya thank ya.
NikKorpon
from Baltimore is reading Book and books and books andFebruary 23, 2013 - 3:19pm
LDDRE is pretty damn awesome. I'm reading it right now and it's making me insecure about my sentences.
J David Osborne
from Portland, OR
February 24, 2013 - 3:10am
I've read "Stay God" and so I can assure you that being insecure would be just, like, dumb.
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitFebruary 24, 2013 - 11:49am
My latest film column is live over at Amazing Stories: "The Lost Vamps: Bloodthirsty Flicks that Actually Don't Suck." Basically a top-ten list with microreviews of my favorite vampire movies. I'm fairly new at this, so comments and feedback are appreciated.
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.February 26, 2013 - 3:21pm
Hey you guys! Book 2 of my Undead America series is coming in October of 2013! Right now it's called No Angels, and it'll be released by MuseItUp Publishing.
At or around the same time, we'll be releasing Book 1 in print!! Thus far it's been ebook only.
Suffice to say I'm a little excited right now.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntFebruary 26, 2013 - 4:40pm
I'm pretty excited about it being in print. I haven't moved with the times yet. E-books just aren't my thing.
And congrats on # 2!
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.February 26, 2013 - 5:54pm
Thanks, Sound. I do love my Kindle, but my husband and I have a room full of books in our house (literally...I'm not making this up), so I hear you! I looooove books and can't wait to hold mine!! :D
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland February 26, 2013 - 7:41pm
Well, if I had waited a day longer I could have waited for the print editoin, but I had to break my Nook in and finally buy something. I'm honored that your book broke my nook's cherry, now I can't wait to read it. Then when it does go to print I can buy my mom a copy. The way her mouth works, if she likes it, you'll have like 50 more people reading it in less than a week.
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.February 27, 2013 - 5:04am
Hahahaha, JR, I already love your mom! :D Thanks for buying it. <3
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.March 1, 2013 - 12:26pm
My flash fiction piece from WAR2 is up at Parable Press. Leash.
ArlaneEnalra
from Texas is reading Right now I'm editing . . ..March 1, 2013 - 3:27pm
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 2, 2013 - 11:08pm
Finally, a little love. My story "Chrysalis" that I originally wrote at the Writers in the Heartland Residency back in 2011 was finally accepted—at Arcadia Literary Journal. It was going to be in a Christmas anthology, and that fell through. Been shopping it for about nine months now. Arcadia is a cool little lit journal, with an acceptance rate of <1%. Stoked to be in here. Print issue out later this year, not sure on the date.
SOME PAST ISSUES:
Devon Robbins
from Utah is reading The Least Of My Scars by Stephen Graham JonesMarch 3, 2013 - 8:16am
^ POW! RIght in the kisser.
Devon Robbins
from Utah is reading The Least Of My Scars by Stephen Graham JonesMarch 3, 2013 - 8:17am
^ POW! RIght in the kisser.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 4, 2013 - 12:38pm
thanks, devon. issue #6 is out May 1.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntMarch 5, 2013 - 6:57am
"The Symmetry of Things" was accepted at Carnival Lit Magazine. Out in their # 4 issue, June. Been shopping this story out for awhile, so I'm happy it's finally found a home.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 5, 2013 - 10:57am
^^sweet, sound.
JerryTheFly
is reading The Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestMarch 5, 2013 - 4:33pm
"In this short story collection of fiction and nonfiction, James Hunt (author of RoboChildren) explores the world through his unique, and often morbid perspective. Follow Hunt's evolution as a writer and as the comical antihero of his own life. Through stories of menial jobs, college life, and heavy intoxication with his friends, a side of Hunt is revealed that can't be seen in his other works. The collection is arranged as a tribute to The Strokes' debut album."
Mess_Jess
from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael JoyceMarch 5, 2013 - 5:00pm
I've been slacking with my pimping:
Twitter fiction at http://www.onefortyfiction.com/archives/the-oracle
Horroku due for publication in Scifaikuest's August 2013 Anniversary print edition.
Sci-fi flash piece due for publication in Plasma Frequency's Issue Five.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 6, 2013 - 4:41pm
sweet, jess. man, lots of great credits here!
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsMarch 7, 2013 - 6:51am
Ok, been awhile since I posted anything, but hey, what are you gonna do about it?
Anyway, was just wracking my brain for places to share this, and whoring was definitely one of the descriptors that came to mind, so here I am...
It just started, so there are very few names on it so far. I hope writers can make a change, though, and speak out against the AFA's efforts to silence the freedom of expression.
D.j. Stafford
from Spokane, WA is reading Shift OmnibusMarch 7, 2013 - 11:58pm
My first novel "Cancer" is available here for just a paltry $2.99. Less than half a pack of those smokes that get you by!
From the product page:
"One’s mind is a delicate thing to waste, especially on the brink of apocalypse.
Oh no.
Dalton Stevens is a simple man with a simple job as an editorial columnist. He crawls through life searching for purpose, until his dreams take on a malevolent nature. Considerably dangerous are those that seep into his reality and proclaim that he is to abolish an entity known as the Interloper, a being of malice, who will see to it that two worlds collide in a wondrous boom. When alcohol, promiscuous sex, and pills won't stub these increasing hallucinations, Dalton decides to turn inward to explore the dreams in their own habitat. What he unravels is an ancient war between the rules of reality, and the wonders of fantasy.
Between balancing his sanity with the help of his peers, and fighting for the cause of phantasmagoric separation, Dalton has a lot on his plate. He will have to sacrifice everything he's ever loved: his friends Alisha, Telle, and Scott, his ex-girlfriend Christine, and his newfound family in the void of dreams comprised of seven mysterious entities and a polar bear.
Only then, can Dalton Stevens right all the wrongs of the universe, and become the savior to both existential planes."
So yeah...check it out if you feel so inclined. Also (since this is a whoring thread) I am trying to get a Kickstarter going for this little book available here. There's some awesome incentives if you donate so...yeah. There's that.
I haven't been too active here on Litreactor, but I hope to change that. Unfortunately my presence will be ghosty for a while since I'm unable to even pay for the $9 a month (I know, shocker), but with your help (or with the help of the people you cattle prod while telling them about my book) I might be able to contribute more of my presence to this wonderful amalgamation of writers. DJ out. Thanks for reading.
TomorrowHill
from Newfoundland, Canada is reading your mind. You like Castlevania, don't you?March 8, 2013 - 8:38am
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntMarch 8, 2013 - 9:22am
Awesome, TomorrowHill. Been trying to get something published there for a few months.
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitMarch 9, 2013 - 8:28pm
/duplicate
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitMarch 9, 2013 - 8:27pm
From my Facebook:
I'm up to a full month's worth of film columns over at Amazing Stories. If you've been following along, I'd love to hear your feedback and/or suggestions for future topics. I plan on compiling the first year's worth--along with some of my previous nonfiction--into a full-length ebook at the end of this year, or in early 2014. It will likely be titled 'Like Tears in Rain: Meditations on Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century,' or something similar. I'll share the cover artwork once it's finished.
I would put forward that the next thing is going to be a story, because right now, people really don’t have a big story, a big software. . . . They don’t have a big meta-narrative story; they don’t have a big story like Christianity was a big story. So right now, we need a really big story. And that story doesn’t have to be in conflict or in reaction to the current story, because I would say, right now, you don’t change anything by protesting anything. . . . You give people a more effective way of living their lives, they won’t give a shit about foreign oil, you know? You give them the right story, and you make their cars obsolete, it’s gonna be like, “We are just swimming in oil. What are we going to do with all this oil?” And you can do that within the culture without reacting to the government, the war, whatever. Because in a way, by reacting to it, you’re wasting energy. You are making it stronger by giving it this token little resistance, keeping it in place. So your job, I would say, is to come up with a story like that, that makes all of the things we worry about so much right now completely beside the point. We won’t even think about them, because your story will be so incredible. I don’t know what that story is, but that’s why . . . if I can make my case, somebody’s gonna come up with that story.
—Chuck Palahniuk, Postcards from the Future
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeMarch 12, 2013 - 1:00pm
One of my rare literary stories, 'Ruby Gets a New Start' will appear the April issue of the e-zine Subterranean Quarterly. No monsters, spaceships, ghosts or gore in this one, though there are a couple of strippers and a thinly-veiled Wizard of Oz homage.
Class Facilitator
ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigMarch 12, 2013 - 1:15pm
JGB, that sounds really cool!
Alex, thanks for the reminder here, I really want to read that!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 15, 2013 - 7:14am
You may want to avoid any of the eFiction publications for a while, those being run by Doug Lance. Lots of drama over at Reddit. Authors not being paid, much confusion, and contracts that sound very shady. (eFiction, eHorror, eFantasy, eNoir, ePoetry, eRomance, eSciFi, eSteampunk)
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 20, 2013 - 7:17am
Sanitarium 7 is now out. My Southern Gothic horror story, "Bringing In the Sheaves" is in this issue. This was a WAR1 story, that originally ran at Beat the Dust.
thanks! happy to have it up there, in some good company.
We had some trouble with the preview and Wordpress accidentally scheduled it rather than publish it, but I worked out the kinks and the first installment of FUNERAL SONGS, Forecasting, went live today.
The February issue of Word Riot, available now, features my flash fiction "Speed Ramp," written right here for the WAR2 competition. I've provided them an audio version as well, for the multitaskers among you.
very cool, gordon. love WR.
Thanks, RT. Until they asked if I wanted to include an MP3, I had forgotten they did those, and it reminded me that I narrated one of your own for them a few years back.
Congrats, Gordon! Word Riot accepted a story from me last year and as I'm sure I've said on here before, it was after 23 rejections. They're tough! :)
From my blog:
Second novel is available on the Amazon! If you're a fan of the Coen Brothers or David Lynch or Cormac McCarthy, hey, me too. Maybe we should hang out.
From the inside:
Trapped in a rural Oklahoma town fueled by meth and doused in codeine, Arlo Clancy has made it his life's goal to keep his troubled younger brother, Sepp, out of prison. Poverty and the lure of easy drug money were pressure enough, before a gruesome discovery beneath the waters of their favorite fishing hole sent their lives into a tailspin.
Torn by cowardice and conscience, the brothers make a fateful decision which will bring them ever-closer to Danny Ames--a vicious enforcer for the local meth trade--and a nightmare world where their only chance of escape might be...
LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY
“There is something old and wise and sad and forever cool about J. David Osborne. LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY is about meth, fishing, trash American culture and young adult despair. Imagine a Raymond Carver or Jim Thompson for the text message age and that would only begin to get it.”—KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of Reverend America and Sea Monkeys
"A gritty tapestry of subversive drama the likes of which I'd compare to Harmony Korine's Gummo packed in with the terse lines of Bukowski."--MICHAEL J. SEIDLINGER, author of My Pet Serial Killer and The Sky Conducting
"LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY is working class fiction at its best. It reeks of desperation, busted dreams, and hard times. But mostly, it reeks of literary talent. Whatever J. David Osborne writes, I'm reading. And you'd better too."--BENJAMIN WHITMER, author of Pike and co-author of Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
"J. David Osborne holds a literary style distinctive enough to raise his work above the waterline of contemporary fiction. LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY challenges and hurts and mystifies its readers. The weave of characters is stunning. Intricate storylines cross and worm through each other to form a dense and powerful mystery."--MANARCHY MAGAZINE
"In LOW DOWN DEATH RIGHT EASY, Osborne reaches out into the scabrous hinterlands of landlocked nowhere to unveil an intertwined collection of reluctant dreamers and three time losers, all trying to get by while navigating rusted out acres of convenience store ice heads, run down bars, and greasy doublewides. Strange, brutal, yet disturbingly familiar, this is the sort of story you can taste on the back of your tongue, and makes you appreciate every last clean and hopeful thing you have in your life."--DARK INTENT
"A highly talented new author. Osborne is one to watch."--BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
Also, ManArchy has an excerpt here and a review of it here.
Congrats, guys. :) :)
Going to check out Low Down Death Right Easy: you had me at the Saknussemm blurb. That cover is badass as well.
Look, guys! I made the local gossip rag!
http://thedirty.com/2013/02/houstons-creeper-stephen-conley/
My girlfriend thought it was really funny. I showed it to her when found it last week because i have Google Alerts, which emails me anytime my name is used in a blog or a news story. It's all fake, don't worry. Any info on there was pulled from my Facebook page. Good thing nobody's heard of that website and nobody reads it, huh?
Thanks Jeffrey! Matthew Revert did the cover. He's such a fucking badass, I wish he did every cover to everything ever.
I'm teaching a class here at LitReactor on how to edit your fiction. Hope to see you there. Two weeks, starts March 28th.
http://litreactor.com/classes/trim-the-fat-with-richard-thomas
The second installment of my series The Naomi Shots can be read here:
http://parablepressmag.com/2013/02/22/velvet-by-ryan-s-mooney/
@ J David Osborne,I knew the name Matthew Revert from somewhere - I'd sampled some of his stuff on the Legumeman books site. Is there an ebook version of Low Down Death Right Easy planned? I'm afraid I am too spoiled by my Kindle.
In me-whoring news, my flash fiction horror story 'Man of the House' appears in eHorror Magazine's February issue.
Congrats Jeffery, I'll check that out tomorrow.
Congrats everyone!
J David Osborne, that is a very attractive cover.
Jeffrey: there oughta be a Kindle edition in the near future!
Linda: Thank ya thank ya.
LDDRE is pretty damn awesome. I'm reading it right now and it's making me insecure about my sentences.
I've read "Stay God" and so I can assure you that being insecure would be just, like, dumb.
My latest film column is live over at Amazing Stories: "The Lost Vamps: Bloodthirsty Flicks that Actually Don't Suck." Basically a top-ten list with microreviews of my favorite vampire movies. I'm fairly new at this, so comments and feedback are appreciated.
Hey you guys! Book 2 of my Undead America series is coming in October of 2013! Right now it's called No Angels, and it'll be released by MuseItUp Publishing.
At or around the same time, we'll be releasing Book 1 in print!! Thus far it's been ebook only.
Suffice to say I'm a little excited right now.
I'm pretty excited about it being in print. I haven't moved with the times yet. E-books just aren't my thing.
And congrats on # 2!
Thanks, Sound. I do love my Kindle, but my husband and I have a room full of books in our house (literally...I'm not making this up), so I hear you! I looooove books and can't wait to hold mine!! :D
Well, if I had waited a day longer I could have waited for the print editoin, but I had to break my Nook in and finally buy something. I'm honored that your book broke my nook's cherry, now I can't wait to read it. Then when it does go to print I can buy my mom a copy. The way her mouth works, if she likes it, you'll have like 50 more people reading it in less than a week.
Hahahaha, JR, I already love your mom! :D Thanks for buying it. <3
My flash fiction piece from WAR2 is up at Parable Press. Leash.
Free E-books! (At least for March 1st and 2nd!)
You can find the specifics at: http://chrissalch.com/2013/02/15/free-stuff-march-1st-and-2nd/
If you pick either of them up, I'd love the get a review over on Amazon, comment on my blog, message here, etc. :)
My story Some Kind of Beautiful is up at Parable Press
http://parablepressmag.com/2013/03/01/beautiful-by-emily-slaney/
Finally, a little love. My story "Chrysalis" that I originally wrote at the Writers in the Heartland Residency back in 2011 was finally accepted—at Arcadia Literary Journal. It was going to be in a Christmas anthology, and that fell through. Been shopping it for about nine months now. Arcadia is a cool little lit journal, with an acceptance rate of <1%. Stoked to be in here. Print issue out later this year, not sure on the date.
SOME PAST ISSUES:
^ POW! RIght in the kisser.
^ POW! RIght in the kisser.
thanks, devon. issue #6 is out May 1.
"The Symmetry of Things" was accepted at Carnival Lit Magazine. Out in their # 4 issue, June. Been shopping this story out for awhile, so I'm happy it's finally found a home.
^^sweet, sound.
"In this short story collection of fiction and nonfiction, James Hunt (author of RoboChildren) explores the world through his unique, and often morbid perspective. Follow Hunt's evolution as a writer and as the comical antihero of his own life. Through stories of menial jobs, college life, and heavy intoxication with his friends, a side of Hunt is revealed that can't be seen in his other works. The collection is arranged as a tribute to The Strokes' debut album."
I've been slacking with my pimping:
Twitter fiction at http://www.onefortyfiction.com/archives/the-oracle
Horroku due for publication in Scifaikuest's August 2013 Anniversary print edition.
Sci-fi flash piece due for publication in Plasma Frequency's Issue Five.
sweet, jess. man, lots of great credits here!
Ok, been awhile since I posted anything, but hey, what are you gonna do about it?
Anyway, was just wracking my brain for places to share this, and whoring was definitely one of the descriptors that came to mind, so here I am...
I could explain it all first, but that would be redundant, as the same info is on the petition. If you hate censorship, and hate it when special interest groups try to manipulate the content of entertainment to fit their theological agendas, please at least read the petition on Change.org at this link: http://www.change.org/petitions/nbc-universal-fight-censors-financial-bullies-make-snl-skit-djesus-uncrossed-a-film
It just started, so there are very few names on it so far. I hope writers can make a change, though, and speak out against the AFA's efforts to silence the freedom of expression.
My first novel "Cancer" is available here for just a paltry $2.99. Less than half a pack of those smokes that get you by!
From the product page:
"One’s mind is a delicate thing to waste, especially on the brink of apocalypse.
Oh no.
Dalton Stevens is a simple man with a simple job as an editorial columnist. He crawls through life searching for purpose, until his dreams take on a malevolent nature. Considerably dangerous are those that seep into his reality and proclaim that he is to abolish an entity known as the Interloper, a being of malice, who will see to it that two worlds collide in a wondrous boom. When alcohol, promiscuous sex, and pills won't stub these increasing hallucinations, Dalton decides to turn inward to explore the dreams in their own habitat. What he unravels is an ancient war between the rules of reality, and the wonders of fantasy.
Between balancing his sanity with the help of his peers, and fighting for the cause of phantasmagoric separation, Dalton has a lot on his plate. He will have to sacrifice everything he's ever loved: his friends Alisha, Telle, and Scott, his ex-girlfriend Christine, and his newfound family in the void of dreams comprised of seven mysterious entities and a polar bear.
Only then, can Dalton Stevens right all the wrongs of the universe, and become the savior to both existential planes."
So yeah...check it out if you feel so inclined. Also (since this is a whoring thread) I am trying to get a Kickstarter going for this little book available here. There's some awesome incentives if you donate so...yeah. There's that.
I haven't been too active here on Litreactor, but I hope to change that. Unfortunately my presence will be ghosty for a while since I'm unable to even pay for the $9 a month (I know, shocker), but with your help (or with the help of the people you cattle prod while telling them about my book) I might be able to contribute more of my presence to this wonderful amalgamation of writers. DJ out. Thanks for reading.
Hey all. My short story, Killer Interview, just went live at Jersey Devil Press. It's a sweet, heartfelt tale about the hiring process for B-Movie horror monsters.
Check it out!
Awesome, TomorrowHill. Been trying to get something published there for a few months.
/duplicate
From my Facebook:
Here's my latest article: "Karmic Demons and the Power of Compassion: Buddhist Philosophy in Modern Myth."
One of my rare literary stories, 'Ruby Gets a New Start' will appear the April issue of the e-zine Subterranean Quarterly. No monsters, spaceships, ghosts or gore in this one, though there are a couple of strippers and a thinly-veiled Wizard of Oz homage.
JGB, that sounds really cool!
Alex, thanks for the reminder here, I really want to read that!
You may want to avoid any of the eFiction publications for a while, those being run by Doug Lance. Lots of drama over at Reddit. Authors not being paid, much confusion, and contracts that sound very shady. (eFiction, eHorror, eFantasy, eNoir, ePoetry, eRomance, eSciFi, eSteampunk)
http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1aavql/i_used_to_be_the_managin...
also this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1ac8av/the_truth_about_efiction/
Sanitarium 7 is now out. My Southern Gothic horror story, "Bringing In the Sheaves" is in this issue. This was a WAR1 story, that originally ran at Beat the Dust.
http://sanitariummagazine.com/sanitarium-issue-007-is-now-out/