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  • You know you want it…

    You know you want it…

    The response to my free lit journal back issue offer has been beautiful. Thank you to all who have ordered a copy of Charactered Pieces, and thank you more for giving homes to those back issues sitting on my shelf.

    Originally, I intended to offer free back issues through the end of the year. But, because I have so many back issues and because I am in the middle of the Blog Orgy Tour, I figured, I might as well extend the offer through the duration of the tour. So, until January 16th, every order of Charactered Pieces placed directly with the publisher, will include a free back issue of a literary magazine (you even get to choose). Orders though Amazon.com cannot count, unfortunately.

    Click here to see the full list of remaining issues.

    Click here to see the full list of Blog Orgy Tour stops.

    The final bit of news: starting on January 17th, the price of the print version of Charactered Pieces will go up one measly dollar to $7. I assure you, the buy is still completely worth the price. Why the increase? I want to help OW Press put out another chapbook as soon as possible. With the current $6 price, another chapbook could take years (seriously, that’s how little profit is to be made at the $6 tag). The extra $1 will help tremendously in getting additional quality reading material to your face.

    In summary:
    free lit mag back issues through January 16th
    $6 price for Charactered Pieces through January 16th

    Support a small press. Buy stuff.

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  • Blog Orgy Tour stop #10: The Fives of ohohoh9

    Blog Orgy Tour stop #10: The Fives of ohohoh9

    Lists are all the rage for some reason. Some say the end of the year and/or decade has something to do with it. I blame scare tactics perpetrated by a pencil, paper, and bullet point-funded media. Today, I provide a few lists, my top five books, blogs, and cigars of oh9, over at Chris Deal’s blog. Note, these are items that I discovered in 2009; they are were not necessarily published, started, rolled in 2009.

    See all the other Blog Orgy Tour dates, here. And as always, if you’d like to have me drop by, just let me know. I demand fuchsia colored M&Ms. So help me if there is a single purple M among them.

  • Blog Orgy Tour stop #9: Immersing in Setting

    Blog Orgy Tour stop #9: Immersing in Setting

    Writers enjoy solitude, sure. But even a cat has to sniff around in a different bag every once-in-a-while. Terrible metaphor aside, stop #9 on the Blog Orgy Tour is at Richard Thomas’s What Does Not Kill Me blog, where I discuss what a writer’s physical setting can do for his work.

    See all the other Blog Orgy Tour dates, here. And as always, if you’d like to have me drop by, just let me know. Operators are standing by.

  • Blog Orgy Tour stop #8: Why it’s okay to trust a black magician

    Blog Orgy Tour stop #8: Why it’s okay to trust a black magician

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    Today, the wind takes me to xTx’s blog, Nothing to Say, where I say precisely that. Except I use words to do so.

    The post is a play on the title of xTx’s chapbook, Nobody Trusts a Black Magician, which I suggest you read. After you read my guest post, of course. And, of course (x2), after you read my chapbook, Charactered Pieces: stories.

    See the rest of my stops and dates at the Blog Orgy Tour page. And definitely spread the word of my many virtual miles. If you ask nice, I might just do a stop at your blog, too (you actually don’t have to ask nice…I’ll do it).

  • Free print Lit Journals through January 16th

    Free print Lit Journals through January 16th

    Now, through the end of the year January 16th, every order of the print version of Charactered Pieces will include a free back issue of a literary journal (orders direct from the publisher only; no Amazon.com orders for this deal). I’ll even let you pick which one you’d like (just put the title in the COMMENTS/SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS section of the PayPal checkout). The list is below (it’s a long one; study it carefully). Contact me if you want to know the content of a specific issue.

    Keep in mind that the cover price for most of these journals is well above the $6 for Charactered Pieces. Just try to make a bad deal out of that. One way, I guess, would be to put all of the money you save into an emergency cash loan. But really, don’t do that.

    I know that some of you out there have considered purchasing a literary journal in the past, but because it’s hard to part with money when the exact acquisition is questionable, you don’t. Here’s a chance to make that leap a bit easier.

    $7 – Buy from OW Press

    NOTE: Strike-through indicates that the issue is no longer available

    Alimentum | No. 4, 2007
    Arts & Letters | No. 21, 2009
    Ballyhoo Stories | Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005
    Ballyhoo Stories | Vol, 2, No. 1, 2006
    Ballyhoo Stories | No. 4, 2007
    Black Warrior Review | Vol. 32, No. 2, 2006
    Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens | No. 6, 2007
    Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens | No. 8, 2008
    Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens | No. 9, 2009
    Caketrain | No 5, 2007
    Canteen | No. 4, 2009
    Cause & Effect | Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007
    Copper Nickel | No. 11, 2009
    Eclipse | Vol. 16, 2005
    The Evansville Review | Vol. 15, 2005
    Fiction | Vol. 18, No.2, 2003
    Flint Hills Review | No. 6, 2001
    Flint Hills Review | No. 8, 2003
    Hobart | No. 5, 2005
    Iron Horse Literary Review | Vol. 11, No. 2, 2009
    The Journal | Vol. 24, No. 2, 2000
    Lake Effect | Vol. 10, 2006
    The Main Street Rag | Vol. 14, No. 1, 2008-09
    The Midwest Quarterly | Vol. 43, No. 4, 2002
    Mississippi Review | Vol. 35, No. 3, 2007
    The Missouri Review | Vol. 26, No. 1, 2003
    MLP chapbook | Brian Evenson
    MLP chapbook | Charles Lennox
    New Letters | Vol. 72, Nos. 2, 2006
    New Letters | Vol. 72, Nos. 3 & 4, 2006
    New Letters | Vol. 73, No. 1, 2006-07
    New Letters | Vol. 73, No. 3, 2007
    New Letters | Vol. 73, No. 4, 2007
    New Letters | Vol. 74, No. 1, 2007-08
    New Letters | Vol. 74, No. 2, 2008
    Other Voices | Vol. 16, No. 40, 2004
    Quarter After Eight | Vol. 11/12, 2004-05
    The Rectangle | Vol. 80, 2005
    Redivider | Vol. 3, No. 1,  2005
    Reed | Vol. 57, 2004
    Santa Clara Review | Vol. 93, No. 1, 2005-06
    The Sigma Tau Delta Review | Vol. 2, 2005
    The Southeast Review | Vol. 23, No. 1, 2003
    Subtropics | No. 1, 2006
    Tin House | Vol. 1, No. 1, 1999
    Tin House | Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004
    Tin House | Vol. 8, No. 3, 2007
    Vain | No, 1, 2007

  • Blog Orgy Tour stop #7: Breach your comfort zone

    Blog Orgy Tour stop #7: Breach your comfort zone

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    Today, I stop at the lovely Simon West-Bulford’s blog to talk about the importance of reading outside your comfort zone. Click here to take in the genius (“genius” is German for “post,” right?). Also, you may have to manually search the site for this post (there is no permalink available).

    See all the other stops and dates at the Blog Orgy Tour page.

    And please, spread the love via Twitter, Facebook, or by any other means. Spread the love like a herpes outbreak.

  • Blog Orgy Tour stop #6: The Watch List

    Blog Orgy Tour stop #6: The Watch List

    Jason at What to Wear During an Orange Alert was kind enough to have me splash my opinions all over his Friday Watch List column. Groupies beware: the rockstar you’ve come to love might have some tastes that will force you to reevaluate your infatuation with me. And if this list doesn’t do it, my b.o probably will.

    See all of the rest of the stops here.