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August 7, 2011
Sententia #3
So there's this manuscript I'm on...CORMORANT FISHING IN AMERICA. It's this Brautigan-esque, experimental send-up of some semi-autobiographical and wholly surreal times, places, and things.
It's far from done, but the fine folks at Sententia have seen fit to publish some excerpts of it in what's slated to be a 'pitch edition' of the magazine -- one that aims to pair works-in-progress with a editors and presses interested in putting the finished book out. It's slated as at least a novella -- though it does keep growing, so who knows where it'll be by the end. I am excited to announce it here, and hope anyone curious will gamble on a copy.
In other news: After some wrangling, I've managed to convince the folks HERE to publish a short story of mine. I join an esteemed list of writers already published, with promises of future fireworks. The story will be live in a couple months, but I am excited about it, and though I would share it early.
Last but not least: I'm not proud of it. But, at the very least, having this will eliminate some kind of future doubt as to why I haven't made it as a writer. And I guess on that day I'll have only myself to blame...because I now have THIS.
It's far from done, but the fine folks at Sententia have seen fit to publish some excerpts of it in what's slated to be a 'pitch edition' of the magazine -- one that aims to pair works-in-progress with a editors and presses interested in putting the finished book out. It's slated as at least a novella -- though it does keep growing, so who knows where it'll be by the end. I am excited to announce it here, and hope anyone curious will gamble on a copy.
In other news: After some wrangling, I've managed to convince the folks HERE to publish a short story of mine. I join an esteemed list of writers already published, with promises of future fireworks. The story will be live in a couple months, but I am excited about it, and though I would share it early.
Last but not least: I'm not proud of it. But, at the very least, having this will eliminate some kind of future doubt as to why I haven't made it as a writer. And I guess on that day I'll have only myself to blame...because I now have THIS.
July 26, 2011
The Beautiful Fire...
Mel Bosworth, author of FREIGHT [which is due out in September -- hint, hint], boldly proves that the eBooks work on his Kindle!
Also, the kind folks over at Vouched give WRETCHED a few kind lines.
And for the hell of it...a reading of my gorgeous broadside from 10pt Press. Rumor has it there's a few copies left...I'm just saying...
Also, the kind folks over at Vouched give WRETCHED a few kind lines.
And for the hell of it...a reading of my gorgeous broadside from 10pt Press. Rumor has it there's a few copies left...I'm just saying...
July 21, 2011
Guess I Jumped the Gun...
...because just as soon as I posted about the good mentions on Tuesday, these nice things happened:
WRETCHED keeps on trucking...
And the eBook gets some love!
WRETCHED keeps on trucking...
And the eBook gets some love!
July 19, 2011
Good words...
Ben Tanzer and Joseph Ridgwell both got some ether-ink this past week here and here respectively and were kind enough to mention me. Thanks to both for the mention. If you don't know their work yet -- you've got something to look forward to. And if you do, well I'm not telling you anything you don't already know when I say they both write really fun and approachable books. Put them at the top of your 'gotta check these out' list.
July 5, 2011
New Broadside - Artistically Declined Press
The fine folks at Artistically Declined Press have printed up a broadside featuring my poem:
Languid, These Days Between Holocausts,
Listless, These Days Between
The Pyre & the Womb...
How can you get this bad boy? Simple - it comes free with orders from the Artistically Declined Store.
I can personally recommend You Can Make Him Like You by Ben Tanzer and will soon be getting hold of Prize Winners by Ryan Bradley, and I'd even like a little stash of these Scout Books. Were I a rich man I'd likely own the whole catalog!
You you're a rich man or woman, you should buy them all too!
Last but not least: have you been desperate to buy my $.99 2Shot eBook, but have a Kindle and were unable to find me in your Kindle store? Well, your ship has finally come in! It seems the eBook now appears in the U.S. store, the U.K. store, and the German store. I'm anxiously anticipating the day when my sales reports no longer read: 'There are no sales to report during this period."
What about 2Shot#1 you ask? Well, unfortunately there is no free eBook option at Kindle so (fortunately) #1 in the 2Shot Series (aka: the free one) is only available via smashwords!
Languid, These Days Between Holocausts,
Listless, These Days Between
The Pyre & the Womb...
How can you get this bad boy? Simple - it comes free with orders from the Artistically Declined Store.
I can personally recommend You Can Make Him Like You by Ben Tanzer and will soon be getting hold of Prize Winners by Ryan Bradley, and I'd even like a little stash of these Scout Books. Were I a rich man I'd likely own the whole catalog!
You you're a rich man or woman, you should buy them all too!
Last but not least: have you been desperate to buy my $.99 2Shot eBook, but have a Kindle and were unable to find me in your Kindle store? Well, your ship has finally come in! It seems the eBook now appears in the U.S. store, the U.K. store, and the German store. I'm anxiously anticipating the day when my sales reports no longer read: 'There are no sales to report during this period."
What about 2Shot#1 you ask? Well, unfortunately there is no free eBook option at Kindle so (fortunately) #1 in the 2Shot Series (aka: the free one) is only available via smashwords!
June 27, 2011
Another Two/Shot
And so here comes the filthy, ugly man
rattling the rusty cup
with his hand out...
For those who have checked out the first of my Two/Shots, I'm happy to announce the next. For those who didn't know, I'm releasing short stories, two at a time, as eBooks. The first has been out for a while, and is free. The new Two/Shot features "We Might Just Save This Night Yet" a short story originally published in the gorgeous, all-hardback & clamshell Bottle of Smoke production called Athenaeum, as well as an unpublished story "Japanese Maple."
No eReader? No problem! The stories are present in what techno-types tell me is a wide array of eReading choices--including the troglodyte laptop or ancient desktop computer (so even I can read them!).
Now, the bad news: the new eBook is $.99, a hair shy of a buck, or, by way of comparison--the change you've got floating around in your car, or lost down the couch cushions. So I think we can all agree, in this brutal economy, those are FRIEND PRICES! Plus--if you consider the first free Two/Shot--you're basically getting 4 short stories for less than a one dollar U.S....or, for you bean counters out there, 24.25 cents per story!
And, as always, all proceeds go directly to keeping me in the lavish hot-dog-fried-rice-and-ice-water lifestyle that over a decade of small press writing has afforded me!
rattling the rusty cup
with his hand out...
For those who have checked out the first of my Two/Shots, I'm happy to announce the next. For those who didn't know, I'm releasing short stories, two at a time, as eBooks. The first has been out for a while, and is free. The new Two/Shot features "We Might Just Save This Night Yet" a short story originally published in the gorgeous, all-hardback & clamshell Bottle of Smoke production called Athenaeum, as well as an unpublished story "Japanese Maple."
No eReader? No problem! The stories are present in what techno-types tell me is a wide array of eReading choices--including the troglodyte laptop or ancient desktop computer (so even I can read them!).
Now, the bad news: the new eBook is $.99, a hair shy of a buck, or, by way of comparison--the change you've got floating around in your car, or lost down the couch cushions. So I think we can all agree, in this brutal economy, those are FRIEND PRICES! Plus--if you consider the first free Two/Shot--you're basically getting 4 short stories for less than a one dollar U.S....or, for you bean counters out there, 24.25 cents per story!
And, as always, all proceeds go directly to keeping me in the lavish hot-dog-fried-rice-and-ice-water lifestyle that over a decade of small press writing has afforded me!
June 17, 2011
Man oh man, that is one sweet deal...
on eBay HERE.
For any of you following here who don't have these two sold-out books...I found this today and so far there are no bids.
Hell, even with shipping they are less that original cover price. Act fast, this deal ain't going to capitalize on itself!
For any of you following here who don't have these two sold-out books...I found this today and so far there are no bids.
Hell, even with shipping they are less that original cover price. Act fast, this deal ain't going to capitalize on itself!
June 13, 2011
Dwang #3 - From Tangerine Press
It's fun to feel utterly jazzed about things. Sometimes things are awesome. Like Dwang, Dwang is very awesome.
And I'm in Dwang#3.
And it is ready for public consumption.
Amen.
From the publisher:
Previously unpublished poetry, prose and graphics. Published May 2011. Poetry from: Billy Childish, Ntozake Shange, Kevin Williamson, Charles Plymell, Salena Godden, Geoff Hattersley, Ronald Baatz, K.M. Dersley, Adrian Manning, Gerald Nicosia, Douglas Blazek, Jenni Fagan, K.V. Skene, David Barker, Steve Ely, Joseph Ridgwell, Hosho McCreesh, Ian Seed, Tim Wells, Richard Krech, Paul Harrison. Also, a chapter from an erotic novel by Johnny Goldcunt, translated by Sabine D'Estree. Prose: News from Nowhere: six original pieces by Will Self. Graphics: b&w images by artist Jase Daniels. Also, a rare image from R. Crumb. Special section: As Close As It Gets by US poet Fred Voss. Includes new poems, a critical essay by Alan Dent (editor of The Penniless Press) and an in-depth, exclusive interview with Mr. Voss by Jules Smith, author of Art, Survival and So Forth: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski (Wrecking Ball Press, 2000). Also 'comments' from, amongst others, the likes of Gerald Locklin, Joan Jobe Smith and Martin Bax of the legendary Ambit. General information: 104 pages. Large format, approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handbound at the Tangerine Press workshop, using acid-free papers and boards, conservation glue, hemp cord; distinctive Tangerine logo stamped onto the front cover in orange ink (numbered copies) and black ink (lettered copies); 3-colour title page. There are 74 numbered and 26 lettered copies available for sale. Body text set in Baskerville Old Face--three other classic fonts are used throughout the journal.
Like all sublime presses they offer a LETTERED/SIGNED: £63.00
26 lettered/signed copies: Quarter bound with Colorado Pearl cloth spine and Japanese Moriki Kozo paper covered boards--the paper colour changes with each letter (colours include: Burnt Orange, Brown, Golden Rod, Hot Orange, Royal Blue, Sky Blue, Purple); 3-page 'stepped' 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers--the page colours being Burst Orange, Terracotta and Apple Green; 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes Burst Orange back endpapers; 100gsm Heritage Book White archival quality, Fourdrinier made, acid-free text paper.
As well as a NUMBERED: £33.00
74 numbered/signed copies: Fully bound in Colorado Pearl cloth covered boards; 3-page 'stepped' 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers--the page colours being Burst Orange, Terracotta and Apple Green; 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes Burst Orange back endpapers; 85gsm Off-White Fabriano Bio Prima archival quality acid-free text paper.
I know it ain't chicken scratch, but on the off chance you hit the Pick 3 this week, check out the insanely beautiful Wm. Wantling books while you're there. ONLY IN THE SUN is sold out, but THE FIX is available (though it must be pretty damn close to being sold out too). Don't quote me on it, but they are the only places I've found to read lots of his terrific work.
And they are beautifully made, by a human being, with his own two hands... so there's that too.
See what I mean? Awesome!
And I'm in Dwang#3.
And it is ready for public consumption.
Amen.
From the publisher:
Previously unpublished poetry, prose and graphics. Published May 2011. Poetry from: Billy Childish, Ntozake Shange, Kevin Williamson, Charles Plymell, Salena Godden, Geoff Hattersley, Ronald Baatz, K.M. Dersley, Adrian Manning, Gerald Nicosia, Douglas Blazek, Jenni Fagan, K.V. Skene, David Barker, Steve Ely, Joseph Ridgwell, Hosho McCreesh, Ian Seed, Tim Wells, Richard Krech, Paul Harrison. Also, a chapter from an erotic novel by Johnny Goldcunt, translated by Sabine D'Estree. Prose: News from Nowhere: six original pieces by Will Self. Graphics: b&w images by artist Jase Daniels. Also, a rare image from R. Crumb. Special section: As Close As It Gets by US poet Fred Voss. Includes new poems, a critical essay by Alan Dent (editor of The Penniless Press) and an in-depth, exclusive interview with Mr. Voss by Jules Smith, author of Art, Survival and So Forth: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski (Wrecking Ball Press, 2000). Also 'comments' from, amongst others, the likes of Gerald Locklin, Joan Jobe Smith and Martin Bax of the legendary Ambit. General information: 104 pages. Large format, approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handbound at the Tangerine Press workshop, using acid-free papers and boards, conservation glue, hemp cord; distinctive Tangerine logo stamped onto the front cover in orange ink (numbered copies) and black ink (lettered copies); 3-colour title page. There are 74 numbered and 26 lettered copies available for sale. Body text set in Baskerville Old Face--three other classic fonts are used throughout the journal.
Like all sublime presses they offer a LETTERED/SIGNED: £63.00
26 lettered/signed copies: Quarter bound with Colorado Pearl cloth spine and Japanese Moriki Kozo paper covered boards--the paper colour changes with each letter (colours include: Burnt Orange, Brown, Golden Rod, Hot Orange, Royal Blue, Sky Blue, Purple); 3-page 'stepped' 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers--the page colours being Burst Orange, Terracotta and Apple Green; 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes Burst Orange back endpapers; 100gsm Heritage Book White archival quality, Fourdrinier made, acid-free text paper.
As well as a NUMBERED: £33.00
74 numbered/signed copies: Fully bound in Colorado Pearl cloth covered boards; 3-page 'stepped' 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers--the page colours being Burst Orange, Terracotta and Apple Green; 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes Burst Orange back endpapers; 85gsm Off-White Fabriano Bio Prima archival quality acid-free text paper.
I know it ain't chicken scratch, but on the off chance you hit the Pick 3 this week, check out the insanely beautiful Wm. Wantling books while you're there. ONLY IN THE SUN is sold out, but THE FIX is available (though it must be pretty damn close to being sold out too). Don't quote me on it, but they are the only places I've found to read lots of his terrific work.
And they are beautifully made, by a human being, with his own two hands... so there's that too.
See what I mean? Awesome!
June 10, 2011
Waltzing Matilda...
'Why Waltzing Matilda,' you ask? Well hot off the eRacks: skive magazine published by Matthew Ward of Australia's Mary Celeste Press. There are US and Non-US purchasing options for the print edition, and an eBook (or is it eMag?) for those that prefer. And if that ain't enough, there's also a free PDF Sampler for anyone on the fence hemming and hawing.
As to for gorgeous new cover for my first (free!) 2Shot--courtesy of the unending talents of Sean Lynch--I suppose the thread here is a loose one at best: the main character in Taco Fairy goes for a little walkabout in the story, and probably ends up regretting it. The 2Shot has also been added at Goodreads--so add it to your shelf.
And, just for the hell of it, if you aren't familiar with the Pogues tune "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" take a few minutes and give it a listen--a song so good it don't need no stinkin' video!
As to for gorgeous new cover for my first (free!) 2Shot--courtesy of the unending talents of Sean Lynch--I suppose the thread here is a loose one at best: the main character in Taco Fairy goes for a little walkabout in the story, and probably ends up regretting it. The 2Shot has also been added at Goodreads--so add it to your shelf.
And, just for the hell of it, if you aren't familiar with the Pogues tune "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" take a few minutes and give it a listen--a song so good it don't need no stinkin' video!
May 30, 2011
"& what if she would've just taken the ear."
The fine folks at featherproof books have offer up yet another of their brilliant, free mini-books...this one by Molly Gaudry. As a snazzy-cool bonus, they were kind enough to credit me for the aforementioned line--borrowed from 'For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed...'
Not only is Molly is a small press champion, but--man--she's just good people. As if that's not enough, she's also a whip-smart, & razor-lined writer...call her a modern McCullers...as evidenced in 'Portrait of a Modern Family,' and her other fine work. Check them out--both Molly and featherproof are worth a good look.
Not only is Molly is a small press champion, but--man--she's just good people. As if that's not enough, she's also a whip-smart, & razor-lined writer...call her a modern McCullers...as evidenced in 'Portrait of a Modern Family,' and her other fine work. Check them out--both Molly and featherproof are worth a good look.
