He came close enough to her to see the webbed stresses on the surface of her eye spreading out from the minute white pocks of crushed glass. He wondered how it felt for her to have the roughness of the glass scratching against the insides of her eyelid, damaging it. From "Eye" as included in Altmann's Tongue If you haven't…
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The Velvet Podcast ran for about 2 years from 2010 to late 2011. Each episode gathered some amazing minds from The Velvet writing and reading community to discuss various writing-related topics from the problems with live readings, the self-centered baggage that comes along with calling yourself a writer, and even the overlap of commercial and literary fiction. I also interviewed…
[responsive_vid] At Burning Books I take a funny approach to the world of literature with thoughtful--and generally immature--reviews of books, writing tips, rants and discussions, and sometimes comedy skits for no better reason than avoiding the novel I'm supposed to be writing. [divider3 text="Would you like to subscribe for free on YouTube?"] I've been making YouTube videos at my Burning Books…
Only when writers are willing to raise their expectations of small presses will the truly awful small presses die away.
I read an early version of this collection, What Precision, Such Restraint, a few years ago, during which time I must have been drunk, since though I recall enjoying the collection I don’t remember it being so front-loaded with genius. I read two stories today, the first and second, chronologically. Both are amazing, but it’s the second I want to…
I'm honored to have been able to spout off a bit for the newest issue of Surreal Grotesque magazine. Here's a taste: Your work doesn’t really resemble a genre in any way, which is nice, although people try to pigeonhole certain writers as being Chuck Palahniuk-esque or in the vein of “urban noir”. If you had to describe your writing…
100 subscribers! It’s a milestone, to be sure. The first milestone of what I hope to be many, many more. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed (and will subscribe, after getting a whiff of what’s being given away to celebrate this 100 subscriber achievement). As a thank you to all subscribers of this book channel, I am giving away…