Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 154

Lillis. Watch the Doors as They Close. And IndieGoGo.

The most awesome Karen Lillis has new novella, Watch the Doors as They Close, and a book tour to fund, at the IndieGoGo, and we think, you just might need to check it out, all of it, sweet.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Forty-Five - Borderline Amish.

So excited we are to not only be borderline Amish, as it were anyway, but to fulfill a long-time goal, fantasy even, to have the whole Knee-Jerk crew in the house and podcast. So, please do hit that, now, excellent, because it just might change your life as much as it has ours.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Vaudevilian. And Carver.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have a new poem, Vaudevilians by Marc Carver, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and improving job numbers prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, welcome John Carter Warlord of Mars, we love you so.

Happy Deathday.

"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline." Charles Bukowski

We are Broken. Drinking. And chew.

Quite thrilled we are to play any role in hyping the Patrick Wensink's new joint Broken Piano for President, including, but not limited to today's reprint of our joint You Want Some Chew? which previously ran in the decomP. Big thanks bro and long live the Piano.  

Crap portraits. Mykle Hansen. And the AWP Kickoffpalooza.

From the Mykle Hansen's quite venerable and endlessly wonderful Crap Portaits of Great Writers series - AWP Conference 2012 edition.

Wherein the David Tomaloff gets most beautifully Stuck Between Stations and TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer explodes on impact.

David Tomaloff from Connotation Press on Vimeo.

Much explosion. And a most beautifully rought live Connotation rendition of the Tomaloff's totally crackling Stuck Between Stations from the Dogzplot.  

Check it out. All Mendicant Bookworks titles are free during Read an Ebook Week. Which is March 4th - 10th. And pretty, pretty nice if you think about it.

Like totally nice. And like now. All Mendicant Bookworks titles. Everything. At the Smashwords. For real.

"It'll take a swing at your thoughts on life and leave a lasting red mark." So Different Now gets Small Press Reviews'd. And likes it. A lot.

So true. And so appreciated. Big thanks to Small Press Reviews and the always awesome Lavinia Ludlow and drinks, many, on us somewhere, sometime, some how. Now, how about some excerpt? 

"Every story left me feeling intense emotions about the protagonist or his situation, weather it was victory, defeat, or a just plain, that totally sucks, and that's what Tanzer does. He can evoke an intense reaction in his reader in a mere flash fiction piece. All the characters yanked at my heart strings in one form or another, I felt sympathy for them no matter how confused or fallen they were."  

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Forty-Four - Salt Creek.

Yo, we are so Salt Creek tour Day Ten, albeit twenty-eight minutes late, and most excited to be podcasting with old friend Jason Fisk. So please do take a moment to listen and please do check out the Salt Creek, because it just might change your life.