Category: Events Featuring Caleb

  • Axolotl. Hard to pronounce, but I slur my way through it at the Literary Roadhouse podcast

    Axolotl. Hard to pronounce, but I slur my way through it at the Literary Roadhouse podcast

    LitRoadHouse

    Lucky me, Literary Roadhouse co-host Gerald decided to take a vacation. This left room for Maya and Anais to invite me on as a guest to discuss the short story “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar. What is an axolotl? It’s this weird looking thing:

    mexican-axolotl

    Literary Roadhouse is a really good podcast where a group of co-hosts gather together to discuss one short story every week. Their discussions are in-depth and illuminating, a tradition which I hope to have contributed to (I haven’t listened to the episode yet, so I’m not sure).

    Check out my guest episode here. Don’t hesitate to peruse their back-catalog of episodes. And subscribe, dammit!

  • No ideas for your NaNoWriMo novel? Come to NaNoBraSto (National Novel Brain Storm) on October 16th. We do the ideas for you.

    No ideas for your NaNoWriMo novel? Come to NaNoBraSto (National Novel Brain Storm) on October 16th. We do the ideas for you.

    National Novel Brain Storm

    Okay, we aren’t doing the work for you. But we are giving you a pleasant bump. Not as in cocaine. Unless you’re writing a book about cocaine. Perhaps a family of W.A.S.P (“pleasant”) take to cocaine to help them through their rigid dinner conversations, most of which painfully circumnavigate the 8 weeks pregnant daughter (another “bump”…). It works. For a while. Until the son, Tommy Fitzgerald, brings a friend to dinner. This friend, unbeknownst to the W.A.S.P family, happens to be the son of the city police chief and may be the baby’s father. A Pleasant Bump is a story of a family finding ways to bond in unlikely places, and of the law that tears them apart.

    There’s one idea for you right there. See, that was easy.

    Join me, Sarah Jane Connor (MotherEffingBooks), Liz Vallish (ElizzieBooks), and perhaps a few other guests as we extemporaneously formulate a collection of absurd, humorous, and most certainly weak, plots for your NaNoWriMo novel.

    When: October 16th, 2013 – 8:30pm CST (US time)

    Where: Online at http://www.youtube.com/calebjross

    What to expect: a low key hour of laughing about ridiculous plot concepts that no sane person should ever try. However, IF a person (sane or otherwise) does use one of the ideas generated during the show, and a finished novel comes of it, then prizes will be given. We aren’t sure what yet, though we do anticipate some amazing.

    RSVP at the Google+ Event page here: https://plus.google.com/events/crlmds91qda9s92b18uihjvnqf4?authkey=CKPEmJfUkJGrUQ

    October 16th, 2013 – 8:30pm CST (US time)

    http://www.youtube.com/calebjross

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  • The Perfect Edge Trifecta tour begins today!

    The Perfect Edge Trifecta tour begins today!

    Perfect Edge Trifecta

    The Perfect Edge Books blog tour has officially started! What is it? A tour in which blog posts about 3 Perfect Edge Books releases will be posted on various super-duper blogs over the next few weeks.

    I’m telling you, Perfect Edge Books is going places. Big places. I’ve genuinely enjoyed and/or loved every book they’ve published so far in their short few months of existence. If you like my books, or like insightful, rough-around-the-edges, intelligent novels, then definitely check out Perfect Edge Books!

    See the tour schedule below. I’ll be updating the dedicated The Perfect Edge Trifecta tour page as new posts are published. Be sure to check back often for updated links.

    While you’re at it, head over to the blogs listed below and subscribe, why don’t ya? You’ll like them. They have good stuff to offer.

    Perfect Edge Books was founded in late 2011 to unite authors whose books weren’t “obviously” commercial. Our books tend to sit in various genres all at once: literary fiction, satire, neo-noir, sci-fi, experimental prose. We believe that literary doesn’t have to mean difficult, and that difficult doesn’t just mean pointless. We prefer to cultivate a word-of-mouth approach to marketing, and keep production as simple as we can. Learn more at www.PerfectEdgeBooks.com.

    Blog Tour Schedule:

    Stranger Will

    1-Apr Bigger, Fuller Glass
    1-Apr Bookworm Castle
    1-Apr Naimeless
    2-Apr Deal Sharing Aunt
    2-Apr Growing Up Little
    3-Apr Free Book Reviews
    3-Apr The Reviewing Shelf
    4-Apr Candle Beam Books
    4-Apr Challenging Reads
    5-Apr Lissette E. Manning’s Blog
    6-Apr Cabin Goddess
    7-Apr Tread Softly
    7-Apr Words in Sync

    Angel Falls

    8-Apr Sycho Faerie’s Book Obesession
    8-Apr Bookworm Castle
    8-Apr Naimeless
    9-Apr Book Broads
    9-Apr Growing Up Little
    9-Apr Deal Sharing Aunt
    10-Apr Free Book Reviews
    10-Apr Charlotte Babb’s Blog
    10-Apr Bless Their Hearts ~ Mom
    11-Apr Black Heart Magazine
    11-Apr Challenging Reads
    12-Apr The Story Factory Reading Zone
    12-Apr Lissette E. Manning’s Blog
    13-Apr A Bit of Everything
    13-Apr Cabin Goddess
    14-Apr Shelley’s Book Case

    The Sound of Loneliness

    15-Apr Bigger, Fuller Glass
    15-Apr Naimeless
    16-Apr The Reviewing Shelf
    16-Apr Growing Up Little
    16-Apr Deal Sharing Aunt
    17-Apr My Life with Books & Boys
    17-Apr Free Book Reviews
    17-Apr Charlotte Babb’s Blog
    18-Apr Lissette E. Manning’s Blog
    18-Apr Candle Beam Books
    18-Apr Black Heart Magazine
    19-Apr Nancy Hendrickson’s Blog
    20-Apr Bookworm Castle
    20-Apr Cabin Goddess
    21-Apr Words in Sync

  • LIVE stream of the ManArchy Loves Perfect Edge Books and Lazy Fascist Press reading in Boston, MA

    LIVE stream of the ManArchy Loves Perfect Edge Books and Lazy Fascist Press reading in Boston, MA

    Watch the ManArchy Loves Perfect Edge Books and Lazy Fascist Press reading from the International Poster Gallery LIVE right here on March 7th, from 6-8pm (EST).

    NOTE: If the video below shows an error, or looks to be not working, please have patience. I have scheduled this post to go live at 6:00 EST, but the reading may not start exactly on time.

  • I’ll be in Boston on March 7th, 2013 at the International Poster Gallery

    I’ll be in Boston on March 7th, 2013 at the International Poster Gallery

    Manarchy reading in Boston

    Myself, along with Phil Jourdan, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Ben Loory, Cameron Pierce, and Kirsten Pierce will be reading at the famous International Poster Gallery on March 7th. You should be there. Seriously. I anticipate it will be quite the event. Read all about it at the Facebook Event Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/events/340073609438138/

    Even cooler, you can embed the live stream on your blog or website. In fact, I would love you if you did. Simply paste either of the follow two code options to your website (it’s exactly the same as embedding any other YouTube video). Note that until the event goes live 6:00 EST on March 7th the video will probably give you an error or something. But once I click the broadcast button, the world will rejoice.

    iFrame:

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a4F7ngMBDhk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    

    Old embed code:

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  • The AWP Conference in Boston is almost here. Are you going (to buy me a beer)?

    The AWP Conference in Boston is almost here. Are you going (to buy me a beer)?

    Click the image above to watch the video
    Click the image above to watch the video
    I’ll be in Boston from March 6th – 8th for the annual AWP conference. If you’re there, maybe we can meet up. You can buy me a beer.
    AWP stands for Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Writers? Writing? Of? is what one would say, if they were intrigued, so let’s pretend that you are. What is this AWP event? It’s an annual gathering of writer types from all over the world for a 3 day event that’s basically a giant literary circle jerk
    I’ve attended 6 or 7 so far, sometimes to sign books or perform at a reading, sometimes as part of a panel, but most often as a regular conference-goer. It’s a lot of fun either way.

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  • How does an author use YouTube? This Thursday, LIVE Hangout. I drink and act a fool with ePublish Unum! You can be a part of it.

    How does an author use YouTube? This Thursday, LIVE Hangout. I drink and act a fool with ePublish Unum! You can be a part of it.

    Books and Beer hangout

    It’s short notice, I know, but really you weren’t going to remember anyway.

    THIS THURSDAY, December 20, I will be participating in the LIVE Google+ Hangout with Evo Terra and Jeff Moriarty of ePublish Unum and the Books & Beer Hangout.

    Mark your calendars.

    I’ll answer questions about how I use YouTube. More importantly, however, there will be a LIVE Q&A session where YOU can ask any question you want.

    Total running time is only about 30 minutes, so I promise this won’t ruin your evening.

    When:

    • 6pm Pacific
    • 8pm Central
    • 9pm Eastern

    Where:

    Just click over to the ePublish Unum Google+ Page at the designated time. Can’t remember that? Just go to cjrlit.com/beerhangout and you’ll be immediately redirected to the proper place.

    Want more of a taste? Watch this: