Cameron Pierce's Blog, page 4
June 10, 2011
May 30, 2011
News Roundup
I've been away from here for a while. Here are a few of the things that have happened:
Nick Mamatas included Lost in Cat Brain Land in Future of the Underground: What to Read Before Everyone Else Does, an article/list published at io9. Speaking of Nick, Cory Doctorow just reviewed his latest novel (Sensation) at Boing Boing.
Scott Shoyer reviewed Abortion Arcade and The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island for Anything Horror. You can read the reviews here and here.
The film site 10K Bullets reviewed Abortion Arcade.
A new review of Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden appeared.
Black Hole Blues by Patrick Wensink and The Fall into Time by Douglas Lain were published.
Sinister Miniatures by Kris Saknussemm (Lazy Fascist, 2011) will be the August selection for The Cult's book club.
I turned in my next book, CAPTAIN CTHULHU, to Eraserhead Press. It should be out this summer.
On June 19th, I'm reading with Bruce Taylor and Kirsten Alene at the Tougo Coffee Co. in Seattle. The reading starts at 5PM.
On July 16th, I'm signing with John Skipp, Kirsten Alene, and friends at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA. Very, very excited to be doing something at Dark Del.
My next performance will take place at The Lovecraft Bar here in Portland on June 6th. Carlton Mellick III, Jeff Burk, Mykle Hansen, and Jeremy Robert Johnson are also performing. It's going to be an epic night.
Here's the poster Jeff created for the event:
In other news, I've been working on some new stories that I feel are among my best. Projects with Lazy Fascist have been keeping me busy as well.
The new Bizarro Central went live. It's incredible. If you dig back a few posts to May 23rd, you can find a link to a free download of Abortion Arcade.
Oh yeah, and I turned 23 on May 23rd.
Back to work!
April 25, 2011
World Horror Convention in Austin, TX
I'll be attending the World Horror Convention in Austin this week, celebrating the release of Abortion Arcade and many other books.. If you're around, stop by the Eraserhead Press table and say hi.Other bizarro writers/publishers in attendance include Carlton Mellick III, Rose O'Keefe, Jeff Burk, Kevin L. Donihe, and Andersen Prunty. Brian Keene, with several books hot off the press from Deadite (Eraserhead's cult horror imprint), will also be there.
I first met the Eraserhead Press crew (and Brian Keene) at the 2006 World Horror Convention in San Francisco. When I attended World Horror in Salt Lake City in 2008, Eraserhead gave me a five book contract. They put out Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden later that year.
It's strange to imagine that five years ago, I was looking forward to attending World Horror, as I am now, but five years ago I was seventeen years old, graduating from high school in about a month, and I had this idea that if I could get a book out with Eraserhead Press by the time I turned 30, I would feel okay about myself. Today, I can say that I feel better than okay.
Anyway, on Saturday, I'll be on a panel about cross-genre work with Paul Tremblay and a few others. Here's the panel description from the programming:
Genre Mash-Ups — 2:00 PM Saturday, April 30 – Dezavala
Nicholas Kaufmann, Cathy Clamp, (M), Sandra Kasturi, C. Cameron Pierce, Robert Boyczuk, Paul Tremblay
Horror is a genre of tone and emotional response, and as such it can be found virtually anywhere: in literary fiction, romance, crime, science fiction, and even experimental fiction. Find out how best to get the peanut butter in your chocolate (chocolate in your peanut butter?) with some of the field's favorite genrebenders.
Hope to see some of you in Austin.
April 20, 2011
Abortion Arcade for $6.66
Abortion Arcade is a collection of three novellas by one of the shining young stars of bizarro fiction. Cameron Pierce's work is an intoxicating blend of body horror and midnight movie madness, reminiscent of early David Lynch and the splatterpunks at their most sublime. His fiction will punch you in the brain and leave you gasping for more.
Featuring:
NO CHILDREN
The apocalypse is over. Now zombies farm humans for their brains. As the imprisoned human cattle drift further from their humanity, the zombies flourish in a primitive renaissance, flying around in helicopters and living in smart houses made of human brains.
THE ROADKILL QUARTERBACK OF HEAVY METAL HIGH
After Heavy Metal High's star quarterback dies in a car accident, Danny the Dio-worshipping werewolf must transform from loser to gridiron star in this surreal pulp tragedy about teenage anxiety, high school violence, and heavy fucking metal.
THE DESTROYED ROOM
In a near-future city where automobiles have been outlawed and exotic animals roam the streets, a man wakes up one morning to discover that everyone in the world is a marionette. Now his wife is dead and he must find the answer, or else lose everything to the Great Shark Head in the Sky.
Click here to order ABORTION ARCADE for $6.66.
April 13, 2011
New story in The Barcelona Review
I have a new story in The Barcelona Review. It's called "Pablo Riviera, Depressed, Overweight, Age 31, Goes to the Mall." Jeremy Shipp also has a story in the issue. You can read Pablo Riviera here.
March 24, 2011
BOYCOTT DORCHESTER
Not only has Dorchester failed to pay authors. At this point, they're selling e-book versions of books they don't even own the rights to…after authors have repeatedly demanded they take down these rights-violating versions. It's fucked. Absolutely fucked up.
March 12, 2011
Book Explosion!
I went to the library today and walked out with eight books: ELECTRIC FLESH (Claro), THOUSAND CRANES (Yasunari Kawabata), EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER (Justin Taylor), CONTAGION (Brian Evenson), BLEED INTO ME (Stephen Graham Jones), FOUR IN AMERICA (Gertrude Stein), a collection of essays on Edgar Allan Poe (ed. Harold Bloom), and SHADOWY WATERS (W.B. Yeats).
The Portland library carries a lot of limited small press stuff, which is great.
I finished GHOST MACHINE by Ben Mirov last night. I had read a lot of it in Powell's and online, but I'm glad I own it. It's really good.
After the library, I ate Thai food from a cart called "I like Thai food." If you're in downtown Portland and you want good Thai, go to I like Thai food.
Now I'm finishing up the final edits on my fifth book, ABORTION ARCADE.
AA is a three novella collection containing No Children, The Roadkill Quarterback of Heavy Metal High, and The Destroyed Room. Here is a description of each novella:
NO CHILDREN: The apocalypse is over. Now zombies farm humans for their brains. As the imprisoned human cattle drift further from their humanity, the zombies flourish in a primitive renaissance, flying around in helicopters and living in smart houses made of human brains.
THE ROADKILL QUARTERBACK OF HEAVY METAL HIGH: After Heavy Metal High's star quarterback dies in a car accident, Danny the Dio-worshipping werewolf must transform from loser to gridiron star in this surreal pulp tragedy about teenage anxiety, high school violence, and heavy fucking metal.
THE DESTROYED ROOM: In a near-future city where automobiles have been outlawed and exotic animals roam the streets, a man wakes up one morning to discover that everyone in the world is a marionette. Now his wife is dead and he must find the answer, or else lose everything to the Great Shark Head in the Sky.
Expect ABORTION ARCADE to come out really soon, like in April.
The March 31st deadline for my sixth book (short novel called CAPTAIN CTHULHU) is fast approaching, so after I send the final version of AA to the publisher, I'll be jumping right back into the novel.
Plans are coming together for a massive Lazy Fascist reading in Portland on May 7th, headlined by Kris Saknussemm (author of SINISTER MINIATURES), who is flying in from Australia for an April/May reading tour.
In non-book or Thai food news, I watched Dinocroc last week and it fucking sucked, but at least some kid got his head bitten off.
March 9, 2011
Spring Movie Sale!
I am selling off my entire movie collection. Here is a list of every movie and how much they cost. All prices include shipping. Everything is a DVD with the exception of Santa Sangre. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. To order, paypal cameronpierce@hotmail.com.
$50
Begotten (out of print official release, not a bootleg)
$15
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Cemetery Man
Tromeo and Juliet (signed)
Jodorowsky box set (Holy Mountain, Fando Y Lis, El Topo, etc.)
La Strada (Criterion edition)
Brazil (3 disc Criterion edition)
$10
Hour of the Wolf
Persona
A Zed and Two Noughts
Breathless
Blood Tea and Red String
Eraserhead
Santa Sangre (VHS)
Un Chien Andalou
Alice (Svankmajer)
Faust (Svankmajer)
$6
Scenes from a Marriage (missing TV version)
Raging Bull
Pink Flamingos
The Monster Squad
The Brood
Dungeons & Dragons cartoon
Repo Man
Crazy Love
Dead Alive
Annie Hall
Mulholland Drive
March 7, 2011
The Pickled Apocalypse fo Pancake Island now available for Kindle
My fourth book, The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island, is now available for the Kindle. Here's what people are saying about Pickled Apocalypse:
"Weird, wicked, wonderful." – PIERS ANTHONY, New York Times bestselling author of the Xanth series
"A most definite fractured fairy tale. (And my favorite book title of all time.)" – S. G. BROWNE, author of Breathers and Fated
"Dr. Seuss meets David Cronenberg." – CARLTON MELLICK III, author of Satan Burger and The Faggiest Vampire
"…a very sweet and hopeful book, romantic and emotional and touching and funny." – MYKLE HANSEN, author of Help! A Bear is Eating Me
March 4, 2011
The Destroyed Room now available on Kindle
In a near-future city where automobiles have been outlawed and exotic animals roam the streets, a man wakes up one morning to discover that everyone in the world is a marionette. Now his wife is dead and he must find the answer, or else lose everything to the Great Shark Head in the Sky.
The Destroyed Room, my novella originally published in The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple), is now available as a Kindle edition.
