Fiction Reading/Book On Sale!

how did this go, justin?

congrats on the book Justin! I'll give your book a read. In a time far long before ago I lived in Pa, but no longer.

Should I order the book or from amazon or you? Always cool to get a sighed copy--no? Let me know if you do some readings closer to MA. cheers, keep the ink wet

[QUOTE=moe.ron]how did this go, justin?[/QUOTE]

It actually went pretty well. I had a bunch of people that I either graduated with, or are graduating now, that have been part of a writing group that we've formed read with me. One of them in particular is freaking awesome, and I'm sure you will hear about him along the line, once he puts the fine-tuning to his novel and sends it off.

There weren't an abundance of people, but that was to be expected on the last day before regular classes end. Most people were out drinking, or finishing up a semester worth of projects in one night. That's what I would have been doing--or had done before--if I were them in that position...

We are going to have a bigger one in the fall, probably August, which I am trying to put together a Writing Weekend if the college will go for it. We'll see...

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]congrats on the book Justin! I'll give your book a read. In a time far long before ago I lived in Pa, but no longer.

Should I order the book or from amazon or you? Always cool to get a sighed copy--no? Let me know if you do some readings closer to MA. cheers, keep the ink wet :)[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the interest!

If you want a signed copy, you could order it through me. I haven't set up one of those shopping cart things on my site yet (for reasons that piss me off and I'm not smart enough to overcome) but if you would like one you could send me the money though Paypal and I will ship it out.

If you'd rather order it from Amazon, or B&N, that is cool also. It really makes no difference to me...

Hey Justin,

I've got a copy in my amazon cart right now... Clicky clicky clicky... SOLD!

Congrats again!

[QUOTE=JustinHolt]Thanks for the interest!

If you want a signed copy, you could order it through me. I haven't set up one of those shopping cart things on my site yet (for reasons that piss me off and I'm not smart enough to overcome) but if you would like one you could send me the money though Paypal and I will ship it out.

If you'd rather order it from Amazon, or B&N, that is cool also. It really makes no difference to me...[/QUOTE]
Dude, I’m sucker for signed copies. I have this idealist want where all the writers in the world are linked by telepathy, since I do so believe in a the crazy cord that links creativity.

Yeah, send me a signed one with the date and a message if you like. Pm me you paypal, I’ll send my address, and we have clean hands. Again man, congrats!

JustiN, thanks for the great inscription! Looking forwARD to cutting into it. and keep digesting that WILL to experiment. even when you think your FULL!

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]JustiN, thanks for the great inscription! Looking forwARD to cutting into it. and keep digesting that WILL to experiment. even when you think your FULL![/QUOTE]

Glad that you got it...

And remember, since I signed yours, when our paths cross, you have to sign mine!

this is tonight?? I used to live a half hour away from meadville, pa
damn, wish i caught this sooner. they have awesome, beautiful victorian homes out there

[QUOTE=Minuet]this is tonight?? I used to live a half hour away from meadville, pa
damn, wish i caught this sooner. they have awesome, beautiful victorian homes out there[/QUOTE]

it was last thursday actually.

but you are correct with the victorian house observation. there is one, overlooking the town of meadville that is freaking unreal huge, and beautiful.

you used to live a half hour away? what town was that?

man, Do SomE more FRIggin readings...

JUSTin I read the first chapter just to get a taste and i do think your talking to a big audience, which is good, since i bet you want to sell a shit load of them . Unfortunately(fortunatly) [I]haunted [/I] came today and that takes precedence since I'm eager to talk about its structure and stories and structure of story..

but no worries ... you bE nExt
[I]yeah mini there are a lot of Victorian homes. if i recall they have a good mix of gothic architecture too[/I]

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]man, Do SomE more FRIggin readings...

JUSTin I read the first chapter just to get a taste and i do think your talking to a big audience, which is good, since i bet you want to sell a shit load of them . Unfortunately(fortunatly) [I]haunted [/I] came today and that takes precedence since I'm eager to talk about its structure and stories and structure of story..

but no worries ... you bE nExt
[I]yeah mini there are a lot of Victorian homes. if i recall they have a good mix of gothic architecture too[/I][/QUOTE]

Some other readings are in the works actually, but we'll see what happens. I want the next one I do in the Edinboro area to be part of something a lot bigger, something to encompass an entire weekend of writing, a bunch of different writers, workshops, etc. But whether or not that can be pulled off remains to be seen...

It's very cool that [I]Haunted[/I] takes precendence. I am actually in the middle of it as well...

in springboro. 500 people max population, no shit.

when will there be another reading?
edit: whoopsie-doodle, see some are in the works. definately mention it again, I wanna show up this time. hee!

[QUOTE=Minuet]in springboro. 500 people max population, no shit.

when will there be another reading?
edit: whoopsie-doodle, see some are in the works. definately mention it again, I wanna show up this time. hee![/QUOTE]

I know Springboro. From the many nights of boredom while attending the fine establishment of Edinboro University, or while rotting away in the fine metropolis of Cambridge Springs I drove through Springboro a time or two...

I will keep you updated as well. There might be another smaller event in Edinboro coming up, but I'm not 100% yet...

Hey, the book arrived in the mail today. Looks good. It sucks that it will probably be awhile before I get to read it though.

I gotta ask -that pic on the back, are you wearing a vest, or is that supposed to be one of those wal-mart smocks? I don't mean that as an insult, the pic is black and white, and you talk about pushing carts at a big retail chain just above the picso I really can't tell. If it's the smock, I think it's a brilliant visual joke.

Congrats again,
jase

[QUOTE=jase]

I gotta ask -that pic on the back, are you wearing a vest, or is that supposed to be one of those wal-mart smocks? I don't mean that as an insult, the pic is black and white, and you talk about pushing carts at a big retail chain just above the picso I really can't tell. If it's the smock, I think it's a brilliant visual joke.

[/QUOTE]

Haha...now that you say that, I should have done that.

Actually though it is the vest of a three piece suit. The picture was taken on Valentine's Day a couple of years ago and it was the only decent picture I had on my hard drive when I was asked to provide one.

But, if you don't mind, if that question comes up again, I'm going to use your answer. That is way better...

hell man. this time of year I'm always looking to hit the road. so keep this place posted and it's more than likely that 'I'll show up at your reading. the good news is I'm about my wits end with my current employer, so i might tell him to stick it shortly which gives me more time to find writers,,, hahah, and maybe maybe find some work

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]hell man. this time of year I'm always looking to hit the road. so keep this place posted and it's more than likely that 'I'll show up at your reading. the good news is I'm about my wits end with my current employer, so i might tell him to stick it shortly which gives me more time to find writers,,, hahah, and maybe maybe find some work :D[/QUOTE]

Hey! If you want to start a group of merry wanderings, I'm down...

A long time ago I sort of scrapped a piece I had about a group of strangers meeting up and just driving aimlessly across the country. I was, I think, seventeen when I started it, and the idea seemed exciting, both to write, and to possibly do one day. Then as time wore on, and it became cliche and overused, I threw it aside, and might have even burned it in the great "my old shit sucks" fire of 2004.

How's that Bob Dylan line go, "But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."? As you get older you start to rationalize life and end up watching it pass you by. I need some adventure.

Like I said before, I am working to try and organize a sort of writers thing, sort of like that "Word Fest" in the book/movie Wonder Boys. If that happens, it would be great to get some Cult support. We'll have to see what happens...

cool! will be looking forward to it

i remember going to a party at the university when i was in my teens, and the dorms were weird. i had never been in a college before. i dont even remember who it was, bennett-someone

[QUOTE=Minuet]cool! will be looking forward to it

i remember going to a party at the university when i was in my teens, and the dorms were weird. i had never been in a college before. i dont even remember who it was, bennett-someone[/QUOTE]

Edinboro made Playboy's Top 10 party schools for something like 25 years in a row. Sadly, by the time I got there, it was after the reign ended.

The dorms are/were weird. My room was robin egg blue, with Styx and Bon Jovi carved into the brick which made up the walls. Mind you, this was 2000-2001 when I lived there. And there were iron prints in the desk/dressers. But, as is always the case after you leave, they have since renovated the places, and most are freaking nice...

Overall though, the town was a fun time. Besides, how many college towns are the setting for a Chucky P Documentary?

really? I did not know that. I think it was 1995-96? maybe sooner, maybe later when I went there. first time i had walked through automatic doors was some ran shackle AMES, some type of store, and being amazed at how they had the doors that opened all by themselves but they didnt have any bubble-tape bubble gum

[QUOTE=Minuet]really? I did not know that. I think it was 1995-96? maybe sooner, maybe later when I went there. first time i had walked through automatic doors was some ran shackle AMES, some type of store, and being amazed at how they had the doors that opened all by themselves but they didnt have any bubble-tape bubble gum[/QUOTE]

That's funny...that Ames will still there when I moved there. It was alongside a Giant Eagle--which at the time I had no idea what the hell they were--and it was pretty much the only place to shop in town. It did, however, close a couple of years after I moved there, once the Wal-Mart got settled in. Now that Ames building is actually a church.

The Playboy reign, I think, ended right before I got there, in 1998 or 1999, so it appears as if when you went would have fallen into that party hard timeframe.

Bubble tape gum. That is funny that you mention that. My vice was Big League chew. And we searched the entire town of Edinboro, and half of Erie to find that damn gum...

hell yell!

!
we'll create a cult/beat thinghy that isn't and rename it something like [I]CATBELT[/I]

haha! i was making radios out of bubble tape containers, so i needed more bubble tape containers. the gum was pretty good too, i can make the biggest of bubbles!

aside: PA has some of the best abandoned houses.

[QUOTE=Minuet]haha! i was making radios out of bubble tape containers, so i needed more bubble tape containers. the gum was pretty good too, i can make the biggest of bubbles![/QUOTE]

On one of our "You won't" nights, where the alcohol was flowing, and the attempts to one-up the other person's stupidity was high on the list of things to do, we bet one of our friends that he couldn't fit three bubble tape containers worth of gum in his mouth at once. Eighteen feet of f'n gum. He couldn't do it, but he tried his ass off.

ohmyshit, such sugary yuck!

[QUOTE=Minuet]aside: PA has some of the best abandoned houses.[/QUOTE]

that is true. i remember actually when chuck was there for the second conference, the one that they made the documentary out of, he asked if there were any haunted houses around, and wanted to check them out.

but there are some freaky ass houses around that area. there's this one, which i guess used to be a turn of the century inn, and through the years became everything from a honky tonk bar, to a strip club, to a pizza joint, to a bar again, when i first moved there, this place scared the hell out of me. it looks as haunted as you can get, and it was abandoned at the time.

theres an old tuberculosis hospital about 30-45 minutes from me, here in ohio - coolest fucking thing ive ever been in. its HUGE!! we broke in through a flooded basement, water almost up to my crotch, which if it was up to my crotch i wouldnt have went in there at all because who knows whats in that water, but we went in with our camera equipment and was so fucking scared we didnt even use it, we got lost as hell in there. took us a good 3 hours through and to find our way back out - i hadnt been that scared in a long fucking time and there wasnt anything to be scared of. there was all kinds of old medical equipment and stuff, i guess that set the mood....like Session 9.
I must go there again soon, this time with the cameras and tapes rollin

[QUOTE=Minuet]theres an old tuberculosis hospital about 30-45 minutes from me, here in ohio - coolest fucking thing ive ever been in. its HUGE!! we broke in through a flooded basement, water almost up to my crotch, which if it was up to my crotch i wouldnt have went in there at all because who knows whats in that water, but we went in with our camera equipment and was so fucking scared we didnt even use it, we got lost as hell in there. took us a good 3 hours through and to find our way back out - i hadnt been that scared in a long fucking time and there wasnt anything to be scared of. there was all kinds of old medical equipment and stuff, i guess that set the mood....like Session 9.
I must go there again soon, this time with the cameras and tapes rollin[/QUOTE]

that sounds cool as hell.

i have always been enamored with abandoned buildings but that one sounds like it takes the cake.

a tuberculosis hospital? that's freaky...

if i had a shit load of money, id buy abadoned houses, casltes, churches and hospitals to preserve their abandoned-ness....err..and millions of acres that no one could ever build on. (except, theres this place called Squire`s Caslte, Id buy that and live in it. because its so fucking cool)

[QUOTE=Minuet]if i had a shit load of money, id buy abadoned houses, casltes, churches and hospitals to preserve their abandoned-ness....err..and millions of acres that no one could ever build on. (except, theres this place called Squire`s Caslte, Id buy that and live in it. because its so fucking cool)[/QUOTE]

I totally agree with that.

What I've always wanted to do was buy up a place that was either abandoned, or was historically neglected and turn it into an artist/writing community. If I ever make it even semi-big in life, I will do something along those lines...