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Thomas S. Roche

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Thomas S. Roche’s debut novel is The Panama Laugh, a science fiction zombie apocalypse about viral media, military contracting, and LOLZ. It releases September 6, 2011 from Night Shade Books.

Roche has been a blogger, short story writer, editor, marketing executive, and web reporter for more than a decade, having written regularly for Techyum.com, TinyNibbles.com, Night-Bazaar.com, Gothic.net, GettingIt.com, WriteSex.net, GoodVibes.com, 13thStreet.com and many other websites.

He is a community sex educator in San Francisco with San Francisco Sex Information, a nonprofit educational organization.


Just got an e-galley of Hard Case Crime writer Christa Faust's latest,Butch Fatale, Dyke Detective in Double-D Double-Cross. Needless to say, it sounds right up my alley, pun not exactly not intended.


In the depths of Robitussin hallucinations recently, I read Choke Hold, Faust's excellent (if bleak) second Angel Dare novel. It is the follow-up to her totally amazing Money Shot.


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The Panama Laugh
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Noirotica: Stolen Kisses, 3
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“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”
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“It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.”
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
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“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
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