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March 23, 2013
Shipping out soon!
Way back when on the Facebooks I asked if folks wanted a “I Am Hosho McCreesh” T-Shirt. The deal was a free shirt if the recipient would snap photos of their hometowns and watering holes. There were responses. A list was compiled. Well, the day of reckoning is upon us.
As evidenced above, they are here, they are printed thanks to the fine folks at Guerrilla Graphix, their in the process of being readied, and should be on the wing sometime next week.
Now, if you are thinking -- “Hey, I’d be willing to wear one of those...” you’re in luck. Artistically Declined Press (fearless publisher of my drunken opus A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst)has built a PRESS STORE wherein shirts like these, along with some other cool press-related sundries, can be procured.
Cheers! Clink!
March 17, 2013
Ketchup.
Quotes.A Deep. and Gorgeous. Thirst.
Hardbacks and Clamshell editions of And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-red... are over halfway to sold out. If you want these special editions, get ’em HERE. Or add the book to you To-Read section at Goodreads.
New episode of the PODCAST for the re-release of Something Random & Tragic to Set the Guts Aflame...
And if you want a sticker to mar your local skyline or watering hole drop me a line HERE.
March 7, 2013
New Store here on the Website...
There’s a new STORE page to the website here, where hard to find broadsides, and other things never previously for sale can be found -- including the occasional original watercolor. And a few drunk poems from the forthcoming A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst saw the light of day with This Zine Will Change Your Life.
March 2, 2013
The Something Random & Tragic Readings
Episode 3 of the podcast is live.
A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst is Tumbl’in.
And I wait with bated breath for more news on And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-red...
A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst is Tumbl’in.
And I wait with bated breath for more news on And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-red...
February 16, 2013
A Random & Tragic Expanded 3rd Edition...
In October of 2000 I got a rejection letter from Matthew Ward for a magazine he was editing called HEIST! The magazine had changed its focus to short fiction, and was no longer looking at poetry. However, Matt liked the work I’d sent, and believed enough in what I was doing at that early stage, that he wanted to publish a chapbook. And so was born Something Random & Tragic To Set The Guts Aflame...I tell you, I can still remember the feeling: standing there in the little dining room, raising my fist to the sky for a full minute while reading those words for the first time. I’d been publishing for just under a year (my first book a self-published venture), and the idea that someone I didn’t know and had never met believed enough in my work to put up their own blood, sweat, and scratch to put it out both astonished and delighted me. Truth is, it still does. And at that early stage in my writing career, it was the boost I needed to really sit down and do serious work. It was victory...a pure, unadulterated , delicious victory.
Thirteen years later, and here we are. Tremendous things like I could hardly imagine then have come to pass, and I have amazing relationships and opportunities to publish with some of the very best the small press has to offer. Books, stories, letters, and someday soon, perhaps even novellas...all of it owing a little something to Matthew Ward, and his Mary Celeste Press (formerly Mockfrog Design Press) without which, who knows where I’d be. And so, when Matt suggested we put out an expanded 3rd edition of the long out-of-print manuscript, I damn near stuck my fist in the air for another full minute!
The book is due out in May -- one of three books slated for release this year. The original 19 poems are, this time, accompanied by 22 uncollected poems of the same era. And those who have a first or 2nd edition know the book came with a CD of the first six readings I ever did. I’m releasing not only those original readings, but additional ones via this free PODCAST.
So save up a few ugly pennies everyone! After over two years of relative publishing silence, this promises to be a big year full of exciting new stuff!
January 10, 2013
A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst...
I’m one or two passes from done with the manuscript for A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, slated for release in late summer 2013 from Artistically Declines Press.
It’ll be a Bukowski-thick book (300+ pages!) of “drunk poems” -- poems written about every drunk story and adventure I can remember, or have heard about that somehow resonated with me. Or, if you prefer, a drinkable autobiography!
Some early versions of a few poems appeared here and here -- which provide something of the flavor, even though most have been rewritten.
Save up a few pennies, because between this book, and the forthcoming Bottle of Smoke offering And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red, 2013 seems to be shaping up just fine!
It’ll be a Bukowski-thick book (300+ pages!) of “drunk poems” -- poems written about every drunk story and adventure I can remember, or have heard about that somehow resonated with me. Or, if you prefer, a drinkable autobiography!
Some early versions of a few poems appeared here and here -- which provide something of the flavor, even though most have been rewritten.
Save up a few pennies, because between this book, and the forthcoming Bottle of Smoke offering And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red, 2013 seems to be shaping up just fine!
January 6, 2013
December 24, 2012
Website Redesign
Dead links! Wormholes! Boring content! Here’s to hoping for a lot less of those in this long-overdue redesign.In the works: And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red... from BoSP, and some early art for A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst.
Also: Tumblr.
