Caleb J. Ross's Blog, page 64
April 12, 2012
The Misadventures of Stranger Willy
Laurance Kitts, creator of the brand new Slit Your Wrists Magazine, has opened up about his perversion, thanks to the courage I’ve displayed with my latest video blog post in which I force perverted imagery on book covers. Thank you Mr. Kitts. You are so brave.
Here’s Stranger Will through the eyes of Laurance Kitts. My favorite part is the penises with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles masks.
April 11, 2012
Caleb finds a few easily perverted book covers on his bookshelf (Video Blog Ep 005)
With the right (wrong?) amount of perversion, innocuous book covers can reveal their dirty truths. Here I look at four such covers, extracting from them the perverted undertones. Publishers should be ashamed.
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April 9, 2012
Mr. Burns reads Tina Fey and robots fall in love with literature
(part of my ongoing Unexpected Literary References series)
The Simpsons are back, this time with two references in a single episode, one of classic literature and one of contemporary comedy. Or so I assume the latter is of contemporary comedy; I haven't actually read Tina Fey's Bossypants. But Mr. Burns has, as evidenced by this screenshot from "Them, Robot," the seventeenth episode of season 23:
Robots display human emotions by appreciating literature, notably the novella (though the girth in the above screenshot would imply novel-length) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.
Back by popular-ish demand, Charactered Pieces is (paper)back!
After more than a few (a few+2) questions regarding the paperback availability of my first story chapbook Charactered Pieces, I've decided to do something with the distribution rights I've been squatting on for a couple years now. Why the squat? Laziness, mostly.
Re-available for your tactile reading pleasure, Charactered Pieces: stories is now back in print. Right now, it's only at Amazon, but the rest of the internet stores should catch up within the next couple of weeks.
Spread the word. Tell your friends that the too-orange book with the weird hermaphroditic foot penis thing is now holdable in their very hands. Get the paperback version here: http://www.amazon.com/Charactered-Pieces-Caleb-J-Ross/dp/0615622135/
April 6, 2012
Stranger Will is FREE on Kindle until Sunday, April 8th.
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Will-e...
Video review of Matt Bell’s Cataclysm Baby (Video Blog Ep 004)
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April 3, 2012
Story Seeding and Social Media, I’m teaching both at the Tallgrass Writing Workshop in June.
I am honored to have been asked to teach a couple of sessions at the 2012 Tallgrass Writers Workshop at Emporia State University in June.
If you will be in the Emporia area, you should register. Let me manipulate your mind to reflect my morbid desires. THE POWER!!!!
I’ll be teaching:
PLANTING A STORY: How to Grow a Plot from a Single Seed
Author Stephen Graham Jones has said that many of his story ideas stem from misheard conversations. This session will explore the process of building an entire story from practically nothing, with special consideration given to dismantling the sham known as writer’s block.
SURVIVING ONLINE: Why Social Media is Not a Waste of Time for Authors
Some writers claim that time spent engaging in social media is time wasted. But what is an author but a communicator of ideas, and what is social media but a platform for exchanging ideas (primarily by text, I might add). This session will focus on how the entrepreneurial author, even without a book yet to promote, can use social media not just for nurturing a potential readership but for nurturing story ideas as well.
Other workshop faculty include Thomas Fox Averill, Thomas Fox Averill, Linda Apple, Max McCoy, Jim Hoy, Cheryl Unruh, and Annie Wilson
See full details at the Tallgrass Writers Workshop website or by downloading the workshop brochure.
Story Seeding and Social Media, I'm teaching both at the Tallgrass Writing Workshop in June.
I am honored to have been asked to teach a couple of sessions at the 2012 Tallgrass Writers Workshop at Emporia State University in June.
If you will be in the Emporia area, you should register. Let me manipulate your mind to reflect my morbid desires. THE POWER!!!!
I'll be teaching:
PLANTING A STORY: How to Grow a Plot from a Single Seed
Author Stephen Graham Jones has said that many of his story ideas stem from misheard conversations. This session will explore the process of building an entire story from practically nothing, with special consideration given to dismantling the sham known as writer's block.
SURVIVING ONLINE: Why Social Media is Not a Waste of Time for Authors
Some writers claim that time spent engaging in social media is time wasted. But what is an author but a communicator of ideas, and what is social media but a platform for exchanging ideas (primarily by text, I might add). This session will focus on how the entrepreneurial author, even without a book yet to promote, can use social media not just for nurturing a potential readership but for nurturing story ideas as well.
Other workshop faculty include Thomas Fox Averill, Thomas Fox Averill, Linda Apple, Max McCoy, Jim Hoy, Cheryl Unruh, and Annie Wilson
See full details at the Tallgrass Writers Workshop website or by downloading the workshop brochure.
