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You decide what I wear; voting for the STRANGER WILL cover

October 13, 2010

VOTING HAS ENDED. You get to choose the cover of my forthcoming novel! Go to the Otherworld Publications voting page and vote for your favorite Stranger Will cover. Seriously, the winner is the winner. No Florida re-counts here (dated reference, I know). I do like one more than the others. But which one, I won't say. The novel is set to be released on March 18th, 2010. Voting ends on November 30th. That means if I don't get the cover I want, I have 3 1/2 months to cry about it. Click here to vote. Click on cover images below to see full size image. 1-Vertical Bench, white 2 - Birds on Wires, red [Picture Deleted] [Picture Deleted] 3 - Snowy Bench, shadow title 4 - Snowy Bench, floating title [Picture Deleted] [Picture Deleted] 5 - Mirror Trees, sideways title 6 - Mirror Trees, wraparound title…

Will you lend me a virtual couch?

October 9, 2010

In late 2009 I embarked on a the Blog Orgy Tour in support of Charactered Pieces: stories which took me all the way from my living room to the Javanaut coffeehouse on 39th street and everywhere in between with wireless internet access. Oh, the groupies. But that's for another post. As some of you may know, my novel Stranger Will is set to be released in March 2011 by Otherworld Publications. I miss the road (which remains unmoving just outside my office window). So, I want to do another tour. Announcing the Posting for Strange: The Blog Orgy Tour II: Stranger Will: (Unnecessary Colon) (I’m still working on the name) My goal this time is to embark on a marathon blog tour, from the release of Stranger Will in March all the way to the November 2011 release of my second novel, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin (Black Coffee…

Coming early 2011: Stranger Will (the book, not the creepy old man)

September 2, 2010

Just when you thought you had over a year before getting offended by a book from me (I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin, November 2011), I go and do something crazy like sign with another publisher to release a novel in March 2011. Stranger Will, a noir story of apathy and abortion, is coming early next year from Otherworld Publications. Otherworld Publications is a young publisher, but one with an impressive drive to promote its authors. This fact is not the sole reason I signed with them, though. This press seems to have acknowledged something that I, and the below authors, have known for a long time: The Velvet and The Cult are cesspools of untapped talent. Of the 11 current Otherworld authors (some noted on the Otherworld site, others not yet public knowledge), 5 have grown up at The Velvet and/or The Cult forums. I think we have Mr.…

“The human race is on the brink of extinction. Bunny fights for them”: an interview with Alan Kelly

June 12, 2010

(This interview is cross-posted at Outsider Writers Collective) Full disclosure: I’m writing this intro after having imbibed a few pints of Guinness at a downtown KC Irish pub called O’Dowds, which, as a nod to authenticity, has been given my grandmother-in-law’s seal of approval, all the way from Ballyshannon, Ireland. The inebriation is all the more fitting, considering Alan Kelly's Dublin area connections. Alan first contacted me, years ago, by the invitation in one of my first publication author bios: "He welcomes conversation via email." I intended the trailing line to garner no more than a grin from the few who read it. But Alan's willingness to contact a stranger should have clued me in early on to what a true individual he is. We have been communicating online and following each others work since. When I first heard about his novella, Let Me Die a Woman, I was quite…

Google Stories – “Charactered Pieces” and “Stranger Will”

April 28, 2010

More about Charactered Pieces, here. More about Stranger Will, here.

Not a loud lesbian nor a story of masturbation; how will I succeed?

February 26, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ll be one of a great group of writers to read at Leela European Café on April 9th in Denver. I’ve done a few readings in the past, despite the live aspect being something writers don’t often get to experience. I’ve been lucky, I guess. I am perhaps more excited to see and meet these people more than I am to actually read some of my own work. That’s natural. I’m humble by nature. Humble and handsome. The unwritten rule is that writers should read from something either freshly published or contracted for publication. For me, that would be my story collection, Charactered Pieces. But another, perhaps not entirely unwritten rule, is that when crowds and drinks are involved, the best type of material to read is work both funny and short. Charactered Pieces, though it contains elements of each, doesn’t contain any…

Blog Orgy Tour: a hangover post with Monkeywright

January 20, 2010

Though the official Blog Orgy Tour has sadly passed, I'm still shaking off the effects. Today, I introduce the hangover post, a guest post that could have been part of the Blog Orgy Tour if only I weren't so busy with groupies and drugs (truth: books and dominoes). Today, at Michael Paul Gonzalez's blog, I talk a bit about the true purpose of a blog. My post acts as a ribbon-cutting ceremony of sorts, as this is the first post in Michael's revamped blog. I'm honored. And if you still want, all of the past Blog Orgy Tour posts are still available, here.