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Stranger Will tour stop #50: Cannoli Pie Magazine; I am the August editor

August 6, 2011

Cannoli Pie editor Stephen Krauska (@cannolipie or @unRonic or UnRonic) asked me to be a guest editor at Cannoli Pie for the August issue. Amazing man; I ask for a tour stop on his blog and he offers an entire guest house for a month. I'm honored. I reached out to a few writers I know whom I believe represent various aspects of an aesthetic I've been slowly coming to understand over the last few years as being desirable both as a reader and a writer. It's a good feeling, to finally being to understand one's comfortable context. This month Cannoli Pie presents work from Nik Korpon, Craig Wallwork Pablo D'Stair, Brandon Tietz, and Richard Thomas, as well as a short Letter from the Editor, starring me! Click the cover below to read.

Hey Chicago-ers: Chicago Publisher ‘CCLaP’ Holds Quadruple Book Release Party, August 10th

August 3, 2011

(This post is cross-posted from the Outsider Writers site) From CCLaP The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, or CCLaP, is proud to announce their latest local live event, a large-scale party to celebrate the release of their first four paper books this summer. An electronic publisher since 2007, CCLaP has been quietly releasing new special-edition, handmade "Hypermodern" paper editions of its four titles throughout the summer; and on August 10th the group will be gathering at the popular Beauty Bar in the Bucktown neighborhood for drinks, free food, and a half-hour reading from all four featured authors, as well as a few surprise guests. Beauty Bar is located at 1444 West Chicago Avenue, and the free event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m., the reading itself from 8:00 to 8:30. All four books will be for sale individually for $20 apiece; or for one night only, attendees can purchase all four in a bundle for only $50. Books and…

[Guest Post] Character and Plot – One and The Same Thing..?: A guest post from David Baboulene

July 25, 2011

Following is a guest post from David Baboulene, author of The Story Book. He is currently preparing to defend his Ph.D. thesis at Brighton University that subtext is the defining substance of story, and by measuring subtext presence, depth and extent, he can tell you in advance how successful a story is likely to be. If you are like me, you are unlikely to understand the next two paragraphs, but by the end of this article we will visit them again and hopefully you willunderstand them and your life will be all the richer for it and you will love me. Here we go, then: Plot is character, and character is plot, because as soon as a character takes a meaningful action, his action is driving your plot (whether you like it or not). Conversely, as soon as an event happens which elicits a meaningful reaction from your character, then his true character is developing in…

Warmed and Bound reaches #3 in Barnes & Noble paperback bestsellers

July 24, 2011

By now, most of you know that I have a story in this amazing noir short fiction anthology called Warmed and Bound. What some of you may not yet know is just how successful the book has been already. Go here for purchase information. Don't be left out.

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…

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…

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…