Hosho McCreesh's Blog, page 21
November 1, 2018
This Podcast Will Change Your Life
This wide-ranging chat with your friend and mine, Ben Tanzer, was a heck of a good time. A big thank you to Ben for having me on again, and for all the behind-the-scenes help trying to get the book out there. If you are stuck in traffic or an elevator for 1 hour and 8 minutes or just want to hear more about the forthcoming Chinese Gucci, give it a listen.
n.b: Pre-Sale Pricing on the special editions ends November 5th. That’s just four days, for anyone keeping score. Get your copy now for less.
October 21, 2018
Chinese Gucci COLLAGE COVER #6
The last of the Chinese Gucci collage cover videos, made before your very eyes via the wonders of time-lapse photography!
And while we’re at it, the most recent blurb video — with thanks to Rebecca Schumejda, Lori Hettler of The Next Best Book Club, and Tony O’Neill:
And speaking of Rebecca Schumedja, here’s a Q&A we did over at Albany Poets. I don’t know about my blather, but Becky asks a helluva good bunch of questions!
A quick bit of housekeeping: Pre-Sale pricing for the remaining special editions ends on November 5th — which means you’ve got just over 2 weeks to take advantage.
If an e-book copy is what you’re after, here’s a link to the page over at Smashwords.
Just over a month now until books start landing in your hands. We’ve got some fun stuff planned between now and then, but I wanted to say thanks, again, for all your support — I truly couldn’t have done it all without you.
October 14, 2018
Chinese Gucci COLLAGE COVER Time-lapse #5
For your viewing pleasure: the penultimate collage-making time-lapse.
Pre-Sale pricing ends November 5th, so grab up a special edition now to save.
October 7, 2018
Chinese Gucci Double Feature
Two new videos to check out this weekend, and a reminder that the special editions are available for pre-order right now…and they are being grabbed up at a decent clip. Especially the hardbacks…so, as an ol math teacher of mine used to say, “A hint, to the wise, is sufficient!”
This week’s collage-as-it-was-made time-lapse. As with all the collage videos, some lucky hardback buyer will end up with this as the actual cover of their copy.
And it’s official: Every special edition hardback and trade paperback will come with a free digital download of the Leeches of Lore album mentioned in the novel itself.
Another set of BLURBS for the book:
September 29, 2018
And So It Begins... [The Chinese Gucci Pre-Sale]
Let’s do this!
The special edition hardbacks and trade paperbacks are AVAILABLE NOW — first come, first serve. I can also announce that every special edition will come with a code for a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Leeches of Lore album mentioned in the novel, along with a few other freebies.
order chinese gucci now
*Remember, the book won’t actually be released until the end of November.
Also, if you want to RESERVE T-Shirt, do it by 18 October 2018 — as I’ll need some time to actually get the shirts made by the kickass DARKO PRINT SHOP here in town.
reserve a t-shirt
Do you want to slap some stickers up around your hometown? Type a good address below and I’ll send out some stickers post haste.
Name *
Name
First Name
Last Name
Address *
Address
Enter a good mailing address for you.
Address 1
Address 2
City
State/Province
Zip/Postal Code
Country
Thank you!
Here are a few time-lapse videos of collages being made.
Over at INSTAGRAM you can see some of the Mini-Collage Bookmarks — one of which comes in each and every special edition trade paperback.
And so it begins...
#ChineseGucci
5 years ago... #adeepandgorgeousthirst
More #ChineseGucci mini-collage bookmarks. Pre-sale goes worldwide in 2 days.
Who is responsible for all the kick ass music in the #ChineseGucci videos, you ask? Why, it's none other than the mighty Leeches of Lore! If you don't know, you better ask somebody!
A couple more mini-collage bookmarks from #ChineseGucci I made 50 of 'em, signed and numbered. #analogcollage
My wife is getting a inked @allisonetattoo and their neon sign kicks ass! #lifegoals
#ChineseGucci gets some kind words and and insightful read from Dave Newman
Big thanks to @joshua_mohr who says this about #ChineseGucci
Filmmaker, Musician, Publisher, and Renaissance Man Chris Oxley says this about #ChineseGucci
Your friend and mine William Boyle had this to say about #ChineseGucci
September 23, 2018
COLLAGE COVER #2
Another Chinese Gucci Collage From Start To Finish…
Here’s another time-lapsed look at a Chinese Gucci collage as it was made. The pre-sale of the special editions goes wide on 30 September 2018, just a week or so away.
Reserve a T-SHIRT Here
Here’s a couple of scorching-hot new blurbs:
Somewhere between a Harmony Korine film and a Tao Lin novel, Chinese Gucci is a book about desire and greed and being too spoiled to figure out your dreams. It’s a book about being alive in the 21st century and maybe what all our futures will look like—buying and selling and gaming and drinking and drugging. Nights in Mexico. Days on the computer. Forgetting the difference between what’s real and fake. The edges on this novel are sharp enough to cut the reader’s throat. Filled with text messages and prose as clean as the best dirty realists, Chinese Gucci is a novel filled with characters no one wants, characters who do despicable things, characters who most of us are, and we all need to read it.
— Dave Newman, author of The Poem Factory and Two Small Birds
Chinese Gucci, in the embodiment of Akira Nakimura, is a fantastically written desolate portrait of today’s rootless youth navigating this inverted totalitarian, tech-junkied, consumerist piece of steaming shit called America that has smugly sat its fat, racist, rotting lilly white ass on stolen land for over two hundred and forty years.
— John Grochalski, author of The Librarian and Wine Clerk
Hey-oh!
You can also add the book to your shelves at GOODREADS.
Much more to come between now and the end of November. Thanks for hanging in there with me.
September 16, 2018
Chinese Gucci COLLAGE COVER Timelapse...
A peek behind the curtain…one of the COLLAGE COVERS that will (eventually) be a SPECIAL EDITION HARDBACK…planned out and made before your very eyes.
The pre-sale for the special editions begins on 30 September 2018 (as always, the NOTIFY LIST is where you’ll hear about such things first).
FREE AUDIO BOOK TEASER
Reserve a T-SHIRT
September 13, 2018
Word On The Street...
Some early praise from some talented folks…
September 8, 2018
Opening Salvo...
Chinese Gucci’s main character, Akira, is maddening, endearing, troublesome, wounded, lonely, lazy, and a tremendously enthralling ne’er-do-well. A modern Ignatius J. Reilly selling knock-off Chinese Gucci on eBay. You’ll love him and hate him, you’ll want to save him and throw him off a building. Hosho McCreesh is a serious talent and Chinese Gucci is a tremendous debut.
— Willy Vlautin, author of Don’t Skip Out on Me
I’m not sure how much a blurb from an obscure writer will help, I’m shit at blurbs. Chinese Gucci is uniquely American and reads very clean and lucid, a vivid representation of real American lives, as opposed to all that Hollywood crap. It’s a great novel, amigos.
— Joseph Ridgwell, author of Burrito Deluxe
So then...a couple of early blurbs about Chinese Gucci courtesy of Willy Vlautin and Joseph Ridgwell. And as we inch ever closer to the pre-sale, pop on over to the STORE to get your free audio book teaser -- the first 5 chapters as read by yours truly -- a thank you to everyone for your interest and support.
Audio Book Teaser
P.S. Direct All Media Inquiries (Including Requests For Advance Reading Copies) Regarding CHINESE GUCCI To: Ben Tanzer
EMAIL BEN
P.P.S. We're still taking T-SHIRT RESERVATIONS
