Today I stop by Bob Pastorella's blog, Obscuradrome, where I talk about my love of book-related podcasts. I spend plenty of time whoring out other people's podcasts, so if you have one, and you know me, chances are I mention you. Click here to read the guest post. Also, don’t forget that if you comment on all guest blog posts, you will get free stuff. See all tour stops here
Today I stop at Justin Holt's blog. I was first introduced to Justin's work back in 2005-ish, I think, during one of the earliest incarnations of Write Club. What stuck with me even more than his writing was his obsession with music. This guy is a true lover. He's not a hipster elitist at all (which is the assumption with most people who preach a love of much). No, Justin is an equal opportunity lover. Check is blog archive for some of the most in-depth personal essays on music out there. Click here to read the guest post. Also, don’t forget that if you comment on all guest blog posts, you will get free stuff. See all tour stops here
Today I stop by Ryan W. Bradley's blog (publisher at Artistically Declined Press and future Black Coffee Press label-mate; his Code for Failure comes out in 2012, shortly after my I Didn't Mean to be Kevin later this year). I offer a few words on my humility as a writer and the idea that being humble is way different than being self-depreciating (the latter of which my dumb ass tends to do). Click here to read the guest post. Also, don’t forget that if you comment on all guest blog posts, you will get free stuff. See all tour stops here
The wonderful guys at Booked Podcast are conducting a marathon series of interviews with the contributors to Warmed and Bound story collection. I am lucky enough to have appeared at their podcast once before, so coming back feels more like a stop back to hang out than an actual interview in which I am trying to sell a book. They've got an enormous number of authors lined up, so please check back there often for more Warmed and Bound-ery.
Today I squeeze into the (rightfully) crowded seats of Monkeybicycle once again, this time to express my sadness that I never truly got to experience the wonder that likely was the Penny Universities. Click here to read the guest post. Also, don’t forget that if you comment on all guest blog posts, you will get free stuff. See all tour stops here
Pablo D'Stair returns with his second installment of his Six Personal Investigations of the Act of Reading, this time with my novel, Stranger Will, as the article's referent object (with a focus on Genre). I simply could not be more delighted. He's already tackled Stephen Graham Jones' The Bird is Gone: a manifesto and is prepping investigations of Goodloe Byron's The Wraith (which I am currently reading), Amelia Gray's, AM/PM, D. Harlan Wilson's Peckinpah: an ultraviolent romance, and Brian Olu's So You Know It's Me. This guy could run his own online psychology classes, I swear. I'd enroll (mostly so I could shoot virtual spitballs at his touchscreen whiteboard). Here's a bit from Pablo's Stranger Will investigation: There can come a point where the magnetism of the internal conflict of a central character can be abandoned or toned down for "the reveal" the exposition of the superficialities of the plot…
Today I stop by Simon West-Bulford's blog to drop a bit of humbling knowledge on would-be authors about the real life cycle of a novel. Click here to read the guest post, The process of Stranger Will: from done, to done, to really done, to seriously done, to “I’ve got to write another one?!”. Also, don’t forget that if you comment on all guest blog posts, you will get free stuff. See all tour stops here