2014... Another one bites the dust.
At the end of every year I sit down to look back at what happened over the previous twelve months. At first I always think I didn’t do anything, but after a few minutes I realize I’ve been pretty busy all year.
I read 85 books 2014. I listened to a lot of new music. And I tried to keep track of the movies I’ve watched. (I’m terrible at keeping track of the movies.)
When I wasn’t at my day job, and I had a few minutes to sit down, I wrote. I did take a two month break from writing after my father’s death. I took a similar break the prior year when my mother passed away. If felt like the respectful thing to do.
I didn’t move this year, thankfully, but I did do a bunch of other stuff. Somewhere along the way my hair turned blue, I went to some Cons, I quit smoking again (hopefully for good), I spent too much money on car repairs, and I published some stuff. Here’s a breakdown:
January
The audio book of Other People’s Shit went live.
February
I published Baby Hater independently as a chapbook.
March
My father passed away.
April
I started taking audio auditions for Baby Hater.I attended KrallCon.
May
The audio book of Baby Hater went live. I attended World Horror.
June
I had a story published in Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction edited by Zachary T. Owen.
July
I got a year older.
August
I attended the Yellow Springs Book Fair and got rained out.
September
I sold some pre-orders of Hell’s Waiting Room.I started taking audio auditions for Hell’s Waiting Room.
October
I attended a reading in Wisconsin. Hell’s Waiting Room was published through Grindhouse Press.
November
Fred Savage’s autographed photo attended BizarroCon in my place.I sold some pre-orders of Misery and Death and Everything Depressing.
December
My tenth book, Misery and Death and Everything Depressing, was published by Grindhouse Press.
Goals for next year (as long as I accomplish one I’ll be happy):
GET SOMEONE TO NARRATE HELL’S WAITING ROOM AND TURN IT INTO AN AUDIOBOOK BECAUSE I’M TOO LAZY!
Finish writing the horror novel I’m currently working on.
Narrate Misery and Death and Everything Depressing for an audiobook.
Take a vacation.
Now on to the boring stuff...
BOOKS I READ
* indicates books I really liked. # indicates books that were rereads.
Burning Chrome by William GibsonLolita by Vladimir NabokovFlesh by Richard LaymonThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithHerzog by Sal BellowUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollScrewjack by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks *Amnesia Moon by Jonathan LethemBeauties in the Deep by Zachary T. OwenDickinstein by Shannon YarbroughFish Freaks of Farheath by Brent Michael KelleyFrostbite by David WellingtonOverwinter by David WellingtonAntwerp by Roberto BolanoThe Dream Ward by Jon R MeyersInvisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukThe Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon RonsonDiary by Chuck PalahniukFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K DickThe Average American Marriage by Chad KultgenFill the Grand Canyon and Live Foreverby Andersen Prunty #Alice in Deadland by Mainak DharThe Influence by Bentley LittleFalse Magic Kingdom by Jordan KrallSide Effects by Woody AllenMagic Terror by Peter StraubThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesThe Descendants by Kaui Hart HemmingsBooks of Blood, Volume One by Clive BarkerThe Ask by Sam LipsyteThe Lost by Jack KetchumThe Tommyknockers by Stephen KingThe After-Life of Pork Knuckles Maloneby MP JohnsonDangerRAMA by Danger SlaterFrank by Jon RonsonFreedom by Jonathan FranzenSummer House with Swimming Pool by Herman KochRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinWhere There’s Smoke... by William B DavisSalt Sugar Fat by Michael MossThe Last Illusion by Porochista KhakpourElmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore LeonardCunt by Inga MuscioThe Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics by Paul GravettLogan’s Run by William F NolanTenth of December of George SaundersLandline by Rainbow RowellThe Natural Man by Ed McClanahanCarsick by John Waters *The Grove by John Rector *Lightning Song by Lewis Nordan *While the Savage Sleeps by Andrew E KaufmanCreep House by Andersen PruntyThe Shuddering by Ania AhlbornThe Great American Novel by Philip RothPines by Blake CrouchThe Human Comedy by William SaroyanPoe by J Lincoln FennThe Mental Floss History of the World by Erik SassWolf in White Van by John DarnielleWetlands by Charlotte Roche *Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall *Wrecked by Charlotte RocheConsumed by David CronenbergColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki MurakamiHard Bodies by Justin GrimbolThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingBooks of Blood, Volume Two by Clive Barker Empty Mile by Matthew Stokoe *Books of Blood, Volume Three by Clive BarkerThe Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft Books of Blood, Volume Four by Clive BarkerThe Party Lords by Justin GrimbolHears of the Constant Hum by William Pauley IIIGhost Chant by Gina Ranalli Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensOmnivore’s Dilemma by Michael PollanBurn Down the House and Everyone In It by Zachary T OwenThe Atrocity Vender by Nick CatoLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
MUSIC I LIKED
You can follow what I’m listening to on Spotify (http://open.spotify.com/user/1223627181) There were three albums that stuck out as favorites this year. Two were released this year and one was released in 2011.
That’s Harikiri by Sd Laika (2014)A Constant Moth by Lord RAJA (2014)Feed Forward by Sandwell District (2011)
MOVIES I LIKED
I’m terrible about keeping track of what movies I’ve watched. I know there were a lot more than what’s on this list but these are the ones that stuck out as favorites.
Nebraska Under the SkinBlue RuinAaltra DogtoothThe Wolf of Wall StreetNymphomaniacEnter the VoidFemale TroubleWetlandsFrankTaxidermiaBeyond the Black RainbowA Fantastic Fear of Everything20,000 Days on EarthStarry EyesBegotten
I read 85 books 2014. I listened to a lot of new music. And I tried to keep track of the movies I’ve watched. (I’m terrible at keeping track of the movies.)
When I wasn’t at my day job, and I had a few minutes to sit down, I wrote. I did take a two month break from writing after my father’s death. I took a similar break the prior year when my mother passed away. If felt like the respectful thing to do.
I didn’t move this year, thankfully, but I did do a bunch of other stuff. Somewhere along the way my hair turned blue, I went to some Cons, I quit smoking again (hopefully for good), I spent too much money on car repairs, and I published some stuff. Here’s a breakdown:
January
The audio book of Other People’s Shit went live.
February
I published Baby Hater independently as a chapbook.
March
My father passed away.
April
I started taking audio auditions for Baby Hater.I attended KrallCon.
May
The audio book of Baby Hater went live. I attended World Horror.
June
I had a story published in Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction edited by Zachary T. Owen.
July
I got a year older.
August
I attended the Yellow Springs Book Fair and got rained out.
September
I sold some pre-orders of Hell’s Waiting Room.I started taking audio auditions for Hell’s Waiting Room.
October
I attended a reading in Wisconsin. Hell’s Waiting Room was published through Grindhouse Press.
November
Fred Savage’s autographed photo attended BizarroCon in my place.I sold some pre-orders of Misery and Death and Everything Depressing.
December
My tenth book, Misery and Death and Everything Depressing, was published by Grindhouse Press.
Goals for next year (as long as I accomplish one I’ll be happy):
GET SOMEONE TO NARRATE HELL’S WAITING ROOM AND TURN IT INTO AN AUDIOBOOK BECAUSE I’M TOO LAZY!
Finish writing the horror novel I’m currently working on.
Narrate Misery and Death and Everything Depressing for an audiobook.
Take a vacation.
Now on to the boring stuff...
BOOKS I READ
* indicates books I really liked. # indicates books that were rereads.
Burning Chrome by William GibsonLolita by Vladimir NabokovFlesh by Richard LaymonThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithHerzog by Sal BellowUncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollScrewjack by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks *Amnesia Moon by Jonathan LethemBeauties in the Deep by Zachary T. OwenDickinstein by Shannon YarbroughFish Freaks of Farheath by Brent Michael KelleyFrostbite by David WellingtonOverwinter by David WellingtonAntwerp by Roberto BolanoThe Dream Ward by Jon R MeyersInvisible Monsters by Chuck PalahniukThe Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon RonsonDiary by Chuck PalahniukFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K DickThe Average American Marriage by Chad KultgenFill the Grand Canyon and Live Foreverby Andersen Prunty #Alice in Deadland by Mainak DharThe Influence by Bentley LittleFalse Magic Kingdom by Jordan KrallSide Effects by Woody AllenMagic Terror by Peter StraubThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesThe Descendants by Kaui Hart HemmingsBooks of Blood, Volume One by Clive BarkerThe Ask by Sam LipsyteThe Lost by Jack KetchumThe Tommyknockers by Stephen KingThe After-Life of Pork Knuckles Maloneby MP JohnsonDangerRAMA by Danger SlaterFrank by Jon RonsonFreedom by Jonathan FranzenSummer House with Swimming Pool by Herman KochRosemary’s Baby by Ira LevinWhere There’s Smoke... by William B DavisSalt Sugar Fat by Michael MossThe Last Illusion by Porochista KhakpourElmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore LeonardCunt by Inga MuscioThe Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics by Paul GravettLogan’s Run by William F NolanTenth of December of George SaundersLandline by Rainbow RowellThe Natural Man by Ed McClanahanCarsick by John Waters *The Grove by John Rector *Lightning Song by Lewis Nordan *While the Savage Sleeps by Andrew E KaufmanCreep House by Andersen PruntyThe Shuddering by Ania AhlbornThe Great American Novel by Philip RothPines by Blake CrouchThe Human Comedy by William SaroyanPoe by J Lincoln FennThe Mental Floss History of the World by Erik SassWolf in White Van by John DarnielleWetlands by Charlotte Roche *Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall *Wrecked by Charlotte RocheConsumed by David CronenbergColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki MurakamiHard Bodies by Justin GrimbolThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingBooks of Blood, Volume Two by Clive Barker Empty Mile by Matthew Stokoe *Books of Blood, Volume Three by Clive BarkerThe Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft Books of Blood, Volume Four by Clive BarkerThe Party Lords by Justin GrimbolHears of the Constant Hum by William Pauley IIIGhost Chant by Gina Ranalli Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensOmnivore’s Dilemma by Michael PollanBurn Down the House and Everyone In It by Zachary T OwenThe Atrocity Vender by Nick CatoLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
MUSIC I LIKED
You can follow what I’m listening to on Spotify (http://open.spotify.com/user/1223627181) There were three albums that stuck out as favorites this year. Two were released this year and one was released in 2011.
That’s Harikiri by Sd Laika (2014)A Constant Moth by Lord RAJA (2014)Feed Forward by Sandwell District (2011)
MOVIES I LIKED
I’m terrible about keeping track of what movies I’ve watched. I know there were a lot more than what’s on this list but these are the ones that stuck out as favorites.
Nebraska Under the SkinBlue RuinAaltra DogtoothThe Wolf of Wall StreetNymphomaniacEnter the VoidFemale TroubleWetlandsFrankTaxidermiaBeyond the Black RainbowA Fantastic Fear of Everything20,000 Days on EarthStarry EyesBegotten
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