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Get Warmed, Get Bound Today

July 22, 2011

The day of attrition is upon us. Also, coincidentally, the day that Warmed and Bound is released is also upon us. For those of you not yet in the know, prepare to be baptized. Warmed and Bound is an anthology of short stories stitched together by the people at The Velvet and edited by the beautiful and talented Pela Via. I've stated already the huge amount of talent crammed inside this amazing noir collection, so I won't do that again. For those with an tendency toward great noir fiction, this collection simply will not disappoint. In fact, the amazing Steve Erickson has offered his own view words to this effect: "The writers of The Velvet are contemporary fiction's most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas...the result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist energy." Head over to the Warmed and Bound site for all the purchase information. Currently…

Stranger Will tour stop #46: Monkeybicycle (again)

July 20, 2011

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

Six Personal Investigations of the Act of Reading: Caleb J. Ross’ Stranger Will at the Sri Lanka Sunday Observer

July 17, 2011

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…

Stranger Will tour stop #45: The Write Place (Simon West-Bulford’s blog)

July 17, 2011

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

More love from Orange Alert, Stranger Will gets Watched…

July 16, 2011

How could you not love Jason at Orange Alert? For the second day in a row I get a bit of love from that lovely soul. This time, in the from of a mention on his weekly The Watch List segment for my Stranger Will book trailer.

A rest from the road to read at Orange Alert Podcast, episode 70

July 16, 2011

Literature lover and good natured promoter of all things indy, Jason Behrends offers up his newest episode of the Orange Alert Podcast with lovely side dish of yours truly. He has included my reading of the first chapter of As a Machine and Parts (from a March reading at Method in Kansas City) in this newest episode. Jason was one of the earliest supporters of As a Machine and Parts, so it means a lot to have him include me. Listen to the full episode here.

Why’d You Go and Do That, Caleb? Pablo D’Stair asks and I ask Pablo.

July 12, 2011

Pablo D'Stair simply doesn't stop. He has recently begun yet another project. His Why'd You Go and Do That? series asks authors to confess to a long hidden secret, and subsequently answer a few questions about how that secret may have forged the author’s thematic sensibilities. This guy has so much going on that he's basically become his own online school. Though I hope this trend of uncomfortable confession doesn't take over his entire curriculum; someone will likely be calling HR. Head over to the Why’d You Go and Do That? site to read my confession, my answers, Pablo’s confession, and his answers to my questions. Here’s a taste: So, first thing I’d like to ask—coming at less the full on subject matter here, but one of your set-up points—is whether you feel in your desire to write some drive to eventually “be free of the tedium of a…