Ben Freeman
from Charlottesville, Virginia is reading everything I canJuly 24, 2013 - 6:55pm
Looks awesome Richard! Looking forward to this and whatever else DHP does.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinJuly 25, 2013 - 2:09am
Looks amazing ~ I'll be buying that too.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesJuly 26, 2013 - 3:13pm
thanks guys. it's really an amazing collection, having read all of the stories, some twice, or three times, or more, over the years. i consider myself lucky that i was able to get all of these authors to sign with me. can't wait to get it out.
ronin356
from Cape Girardeau, Mo is reading Mark TwainJuly 29, 2013 - 1:26am
Please check out my webcomic, Killjoy the Raygun Chronicles:
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 1, 2013 - 12:25pm
Great news about BURNT TONGUES, the anthology I edited with Chuck Palahniuk and Dennis Widmyer. We've sold foreign rights to AST in Russia! And other foreign sales are looming. That's a first for me, very cool.
Here's what Medallion Press had to say: "Congratulations are in order for the editors of the upcoming anthology Burnt Tongues—Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer—as well as all contributing authors, as AST Licence Ltd. picked up the Russian translation rights for this exciting title. Congrats, all!"
Brandon
from KCMO is reading Made to BreakAugust 1, 2013 - 12:43pm
Russian money. I'll take it.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAugust 1, 2013 - 2:54pm
Belatedly, thanks for the love, guys.
Jeremy Robert J...
from Portland, OR is reading an unreasonable number of books.August 1, 2013 - 4:20pm
Just launched an ultra-cheap ($0.99 each) Kindle Sampler Series as an experiment. Each sampler contains 3 short stories. The covers were all designed by Matthew Revert, whose work I love.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 1, 2013 - 5:40pm
very cool, JRJ. great idea. love how you broke it out like that, too. awesome.
Mess_Jess
from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael JoyceAugust 2, 2013 - 5:12pm
Hi guys, I have a column up here at Litreactor. Exciting stuff, right? :D
Bob Pastorella
from Groves, Texas is reading murder books trying to stay hip, I'm thinking of you, and you're out there so Say your prayers, Say your prayers, Say your prayers August 3, 2013 - 9:46am
Hello people - I've a story in The Blue Shift. It is their inaugural issue. My words share the same pages as Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick - and other famous people. Check it out!
(yes - my name is jacked in the intro - hope the copy isn't like that)
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 5, 2013 - 9:55am
congrats, fritz. i dig what WCP is doing, eyeballing Dark Intent.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigAugust 8, 2013 - 3:12pm
I wrote something that is a weird mix of book review and personal blog over on my personal blog, I lay myself pretty bare in it, but I'm passionate about the book, so I thought I'd whore the review out a bit:
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesAugust 8, 2013 - 5:27pm
That's a great post, Renee. It sounds like a really powerful book. My mom has been an addict since I was four, and we're still navigating those troubled waters. Makes me want to give this one a read, but not sure if I'm ready for that much of a mindfuck. Still, adding it to my list. Thank you!
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigAugust 8, 2013 - 8:34pm
It took me a long time to finish, and my father's been dead for a few years. It was definitely worth it in the end. I treasure the experience.
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesAugust 8, 2013 - 10:48pm
Well it's a great review and a moving endorsement. Thanks for posting it. I will definitely check it out.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinAugust 9, 2013 - 3:23am
Beautiful review Renee (in the way that raw emotion is always beautiful)
I'll be adding that book to my must read list.
Scott Gable
from Seattle
August 9, 2013 - 11:49am
I'm the editor/publisher at the small press Broken Eye Books, and we just launched the CROOKED and Other Oddities Kickstarter.
Full of fun, weird stuff!
You can find reviews of our first release at Amazon.
[/whoring]
Fritz
August 11, 2013 - 5:47pm
Thanks Richard - definitely send something to Dark Intent - it looks right up your alley.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigAugust 12, 2013 - 10:45am
I'm doing a huge international scavenger hunt (GISHWHES) and one of the items is to create a twitter account for your alarm clock and have it tweet once a day at 7am for the week of the hunt. My teammate created it, but we need to get it to 200 followers for it to count! So if you all are on twitter and want to help a sister out, please go to twitter.com/susisalarmclock and follow it! You'll be my favorite :D
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 12, 2013 - 11:21am
done and done.
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesAugust 12, 2013 - 12:03pm
Following!
Daniel Coffman
from Pennsylvania
August 12, 2013 - 3:48pm
My first book, a collection of horror short stories, went live a couple of weeks ago: Four From Below. It's available in paperback and Kindle.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 12, 2013 - 8:35pm
The first covers for Dark House Press are now posted at our FB and Twitter. Here they are.
ECHO LAKE by Letitia Trent, Southern gothic horror thriller:
THE NEW BLACK, which I edited, a kind of "best of neo-noir" with 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, Damien Walters Grintalis, Antonia Crane, Rebecca Jones-Howe, and Craig Wallwork:
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesAugust 13, 2013 - 7:14am
I can't wait to read both of these, Richard. They look great!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 13, 2013 - 7:16am
thanks! i'm very excited about them both, obviously. :-)
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 14, 2013 - 7:31pm
I'll be posting up on social media tomorrow, but I'm thrilled to announce that my story, "Chasing Ghosts" which I've been shopping for over a year was just accepted at CEMETERY DANCE. I'm thrilled. This is one of my white whales, the whitest, and they have a long history at the magazine of publishing the best in horror and dark fiction—King, Straub, Barker, Ketchum, Koontz, Keene, Matheson, Clegg, Lansdale, Cronin, and Bradbury as well as lesser known authors such as Stephen Graham Jones, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Benjamin Percy. Not sure what issue or when, but it doesn't really matter, I've broken through. My story was part of my MFA, a paranoid neo-noir story about fidelity, perception, and love on the ropes. Thanks for your continued support, LR. I'm stoked.
The latest issue:
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsAugust 14, 2013 - 7:38pm
Congratz Richard that is awesome. I never got your book from Amazon. I am going to reorder. I really want to read your stuff!
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesAugust 14, 2013 - 7:53pm
Oh wow Richard that is awesome! Congratulations!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 14, 2013 - 8:23pm
Shoot, sorry, Cove. Did you get a refund? Let me know if you have trouble.
Thanks, Sarah. I can't wait to see it come out. I hope there is a "big name" in it with me. I'd LOVE to see my name on the cover, but at this point in my career I'm usually under the "and many others" tag. :-)
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntAugust 14, 2013 - 8:24pm
That is awesome Richard. Congrats!
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntAugust 14, 2013 - 8:26pm
Be sure to post back when it's in there. I'd love to get a copy.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 14, 2013 - 9:22pm
thanks, sound. yeah, the contract is in the mail, not sure if it'll be out in 2013 or 2014, yet. you know i'll be posting up about it when it's out.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinAugust 15, 2013 - 2:21am
Congrats Richard ~ slay those white whales! (...metaphorically speaking of course...)
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 15, 2013 - 6:26am
thanks, em!
SRead
from Colorado is reading StoriesAugust 15, 2013 - 6:50am
Richard, saying you hope there's a big name in CD is like saying you hope there's hydrogen in your water. CD = big name! And it's more than a white whale, it's like a ninja whale with an invisibility cloak. Seriously, SO excited for you!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 15, 2013 - 7:59am
^^lol, thanks. i can't wait to see the cover art and the rest of the authors. i wonder if i'll have interior art on my story or not? not sure.
Devon Robbins
from Utah is reading The Least Of My Scars by Stephen Graham JonesAugust 15, 2013 - 9:30am
Congratulations, Richard. Now you're a real boy.
fortunewookie
August 15, 2013 - 10:31am
Congrats on CD Richard. That's pretty fucking cool
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 15, 2013 - 11:19am
thanks DR and FW, it's been five years of submitting, waiting, them being closed, etc. i feel very lucky, and honored. i'm framing this cover for sure. :-)
MattF
from Tokyo is reading Borges' Collected FictionsAugust 16, 2013 - 2:02am
Congratulations Richard! You're having a hell of a run. Great work and well deserved.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 16, 2013 - 9:39am
The coolest thing to me is that it is a publication that my local Hastings carries. Not a specialty store, or an online order, but a big enough publication that I will be able to buy it off the rack. If you think of how few literary magazines that you can say that about, Cemetery Dance is a huge deal.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreAugust 16, 2013 - 10:25am
When we used to have Borders, they had a better lit-mag selection than B&N, though that only meant five or six of them. But Cemetery Dance was one.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 16, 2013 - 11:59am
thanks matt.
right, jack? it feels LEGIT. :-) i was just saying that.
that's cool, gordon.
i probably get them at cost from CD, in addition to a few free copies, but i'll definitely purchase a dozen or more to sign and give out to family,friends, etc. they DO go out of print rather quickly. look at their website, MOST of the past issues are sold out.
KarenRunge
from South Africa is reading BlindnessAugust 18, 2013 - 8:27pm
I've got a story out at Pseudopod (http://pseudopod.org/), the audio fiction horror podcast. Mine is 'The Killing Machine', episode 347. The episode features three stories, and I'm in the middle.
Got a few more coming up. Total five this year, out or upcoming. 2013 has been awesome so far.
Right! Whoring OVER!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 19, 2013 - 7:22am
wow, congrats, BGC. i like those places, i've been rejected by both. very cool. way to go.
Ripley
from Fort Scott, Kansas is reading Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceAugust 19, 2013 - 11:52am
Not a short story sale, but I finally have another journalism job. Ended up in Montana a month ago. I now know what you guys mean by rejection slips since I sent out over a hundred CVs from late December to early July when I got this. Hooray for being out of the house. I can write silently again.
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesAugust 19, 2013 - 1:16pm
I expect rejections. Acceptances are always a surprise.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 19, 2013 - 1:17pm
I expect rejections. Acceptances are always a surprise.
Looks awesome Richard! Looking forward to this and whatever else DHP does.
Looks amazing ~ I'll be buying that too.
thanks guys. it's really an amazing collection, having read all of the stories, some twice, or three times, or more, over the years. i consider myself lucky that i was able to get all of these authors to sign with me. can't wait to get it out.
Please check out my webcomic, Killjoy the Raygun Chronicles:
http://killjoya.comicdish.com/
Thanks. Have a good day!
Great news about BURNT TONGUES, the anthology I edited with Chuck Palahniuk and Dennis Widmyer. We've sold foreign rights to AST in Russia! And other foreign sales are looming. That's a first for me, very cool.
Here's what Medallion Press had to say: "Congratulations are in order for the editors of the upcoming anthology Burnt Tongues—Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer—as well as all contributing authors, as AST Licence Ltd. picked up the Russian translation rights for this exciting title. Congrats, all!"
See more at: http://medallionmediagroup.com/ya-release-canary/
Russian money. I'll take it.
Belatedly, thanks for the love, guys.
Just launched an ultra-cheap ($0.99 each) Kindle Sampler Series as an experiment. Each sampler contains 3 short stories. The covers were all designed by Matthew Revert, whose work I love.
very cool, JRJ. great idea. love how you broke it out like that, too. awesome.
Hi guys, I have a column up here at Litreactor. Exciting stuff, right? :D
http://litreactor.com/columns/five-legal-issues-all-writers-need-to-be-aware-of
My review of Chuck Wendig's The Blue Blazes is up at ManArchy.
Hello people - I've a story in The Blue Shift. It is their inaugural issue. My words share the same pages as Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick - and other famous people. Check it out!
http://www.whitecatpublications.com/products-page/scifi/blue-shift-magazine/
(yes - my name is jacked in the intro - hope the copy isn't like that)
congrats, fritz. i dig what WCP is doing, eyeballing Dark Intent.
I wrote something that is a weird mix of book review and personal blog over on my personal blog, I lay myself pretty bare in it, but I'm passionate about the book, so I thought I'd whore the review out a bit:
http://reneeasherpickup.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/this-might-be-a-review-...
That's a great post, Renee. It sounds like a really powerful book. My mom has been an addict since I was four, and we're still navigating those troubled waters. Makes me want to give this one a read, but not sure if I'm ready for that much of a mindfuck. Still, adding it to my list. Thank you!
It took me a long time to finish, and my father's been dead for a few years. It was definitely worth it in the end. I treasure the experience.
Well it's a great review and a moving endorsement. Thanks for posting it. I will definitely check it out.
Beautiful review Renee (in the way that raw emotion is always beautiful)
I'll be adding that book to my must read list.
I'm the editor/publisher at the small press Broken Eye Books, and we just launched the CROOKED and Other Oddities Kickstarter.
Full of fun, weird stuff!
You can find reviews of our first release at Amazon.
[/whoring]
Thanks Richard - definitely send something to Dark Intent - it looks right up your alley.
I'm doing a huge international scavenger hunt (GISHWHES) and one of the items is to create a twitter account for your alarm clock and have it tweet once a day at 7am for the week of the hunt. My teammate created it, but we need to get it to 200 followers for it to count! So if you all are on twitter and want to help a sister out, please go to twitter.com/susisalarmclock and follow it! You'll be my favorite :D
done and done.
Following!
My first book, a collection of horror short stories, went live a couple of weeks ago: Four From Below. It's available in paperback and Kindle.
tinyurl.com/4fbelow
tinyurl.com/4fromb
I'm also doing a giveaway on Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18298011-four-from-below
warning: it's pretty brutal at times.
The first covers for Dark House Press are now posted at our FB and Twitter. Here they are.
ECHO LAKE by Letitia Trent, Southern gothic horror thriller:
THE NEW BLACK, which I edited, a kind of "best of neo-noir" with 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, Damien Walters Grintalis, Antonia Crane, Rebecca Jones-Howe, and Craig Wallwork:
I can't wait to read both of these, Richard. They look great!
thanks! i'm very excited about them both, obviously. :-)
I'll be posting up on social media tomorrow, but I'm thrilled to announce that my story, "Chasing Ghosts" which I've been shopping for over a year was just accepted at CEMETERY DANCE. I'm thrilled. This is one of my white whales, the whitest, and they have a long history at the magazine of publishing the best in horror and dark fiction—King, Straub, Barker, Ketchum, Koontz, Keene, Matheson, Clegg, Lansdale, Cronin, and Bradbury as well as lesser known authors such as Stephen Graham Jones, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Benjamin Percy. Not sure what issue or when, but it doesn't really matter, I've broken through. My story was part of my MFA, a paranoid neo-noir story about fidelity, perception, and love on the ropes. Thanks for your continued support, LR. I'm stoked.
The latest issue:
Congratz Richard that is awesome. I never got your book from Amazon. I am going to reorder. I really want to read your stuff!
Oh wow Richard that is awesome! Congratulations!
Shoot, sorry, Cove. Did you get a refund? Let me know if you have trouble.
Thanks, Sarah. I can't wait to see it come out. I hope there is a "big name" in it with me. I'd LOVE to see my name on the cover, but at this point in my career I'm usually under the "and many others" tag. :-)
That is awesome Richard. Congrats!
Be sure to post back when it's in there. I'd love to get a copy.
thanks, sound. yeah, the contract is in the mail, not sure if it'll be out in 2013 or 2014, yet. you know i'll be posting up about it when it's out.
Congrats Richard ~ slay those white whales! (...metaphorically speaking of course...)
thanks, em!
Richard, saying you hope there's a big name in CD is like saying you hope there's hydrogen in your water. CD = big name! And it's more than a white whale, it's like a ninja whale with an invisibility cloak. Seriously, SO excited for you!
^^lol, thanks. i can't wait to see the cover art and the rest of the authors. i wonder if i'll have interior art on my story or not? not sure.
Congratulations, Richard. Now you're a real boy.
Congrats on CD Richard. That's pretty fucking cool
thanks DR and FW, it's been five years of submitting, waiting, them being closed, etc. i feel very lucky, and honored. i'm framing this cover for sure. :-)
Congratulations Richard! You're having a hell of a run. Great work and well deserved.
The coolest thing to me is that it is a publication that my local Hastings carries. Not a specialty store, or an online order, but a big enough publication that I will be able to buy it off the rack. If you think of how few literary magazines that you can say that about, Cemetery Dance is a huge deal.
When we used to have Borders, they had a better lit-mag selection than B&N, though that only meant five or six of them. But Cemetery Dance was one.
thanks matt.
right, jack? it feels LEGIT. :-) i was just saying that.
that's cool, gordon.
i probably get them at cost from CD, in addition to a few free copies, but i'll definitely purchase a dozen or more to sign and give out to family,friends, etc. they DO go out of print rather quickly. look at their website, MOST of the past issues are sold out.
I've got a story out at Pseudopod (http://pseudopod.org/), the audio fiction horror podcast. Mine is 'The Killing Machine', episode 347. The episode features three stories, and I'm in the middle.
Also, earlier this month my story 'Sweet Old Men' came out in issue ten of Structo Magazine (http://www.structomagazine.co.uk/)
Got a few more coming up. Total five this year, out or upcoming. 2013 has been awesome so far.
Right! Whoring OVER!
wow, congrats, BGC. i like those places, i've been rejected by both. very cool. way to go.
Not a short story sale, but I finally have another journalism job. Ended up in Montana a month ago. I now know what you guys mean by rejection slips since I sent out over a hundred CVs from late December to early July when I got this. Hooray for being out of the house. I can write silently again.
I expect rejections. Acceptances are always a surprise.
^^this