The Brothel: A Whoring Thread for Writers

I conducted an interview with Michael Sonbert about his novel We Are Oblivion for my blog/writer's hideout.

I know a lot of people here enjoyed this book.

You can see the interview here if you would like to Michael gave me some great answers.

Cheers guys.

OWP has several eBooks on sale for .99 for a limited time. It's the one year anniversary of my novel, Transubstantiate. Also on sale, the rest of the noir pack, Caleb J. Ross, Nik Korpon, Brandon Tietz and Michael Sonbert.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/19762.

$5 gets you all five books. What a deal.

I conducted interviews with Andrez Bergen and Kristopher Young at over at my site, Solarcide.com. Take a look here if you want to have a read

I really can't thank these guys enough. Both went far above the call of duty. I'm really happy with this one.

I just created a really stupid book trailer for Stranger Will. It made me laugh, and that's really all that matters. However, I would love for this to have the chance to make other people laugh, too.

My dream would be to have this trailer picked up by one of the lit sites I frequent (GalleyCat or the like). In order for that to happen, this thing needs to be shared. If you like the trailer and have a few moments to share, I would love you.

Where the hell are all the dancing cats? That's what you need on YouTube.

Seriously, though, I LOL'd.

gerat stuff, tweeted and facebooked, brother

Hey everyone,

Today I received my copies of Nelson Literacy 8: Homegrown - the eighth-grade textbook that will feature my short story, Halloween Knight, in schools across Newfoundland this September. I thought it was going to be a regular, wall-of-text-style book, but it's actually fully illustrated with custom artwork on every page. So yeah, H.K. has been brought to life by the amazing Craig Phillips, and I couldn't be happier with the results. Those of you who remember the story being workshopped on this site might get a kick out of this pic:

I've got the entire spread up on my Facebook page, so feel free to check them out. Once again, a huge thanks to everyone here at the site who helped shape this piece.

-Chris-

This is an old one, but it's the only one I have in English and not being an IT-related article. I was experimenting with writing fiction in English and it also paid the bills. So here it is: Soul Catcher

That's fuckin' awesome, Chris. I'll check it out on facebook tonight and yeah, it looks great just from that pic you got there. Very Nice!

Hey guys, I just posted a story by our pal Nathan (Claudelives) over at Solarcide. He's on a roll this man. Would love for you all to check it out.

You can see it here.

Great stuff, Nathan. You've been killing it lately! Oh, and Voodoo, the links to the story don't seem to work - they just loop me back to the topic page. I had to use the link in your sig to reach solarcide.

Cheers Chris I've fixed that.

Thank you both, Chris and Martin, for your words -I posted another response over in the Solarcide thread which speaks to this news. But yeah exciting stuff -I'm happy to have a story there. Plus I know Martin's kicked some ass with his own stories lately -Solarcide provides links to the places where those have been published as well.

My story "Tinkering With the Moon" was accepted by Gargoyle Magazine.

http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle.php

This annual journal has a great history: Allen Ginsberg, TC Boyle, Jennifer Egan, Ben Marcus, Rick Moody and newer talents like Ethel Rohan, Kim Chinquee, etc. My story is a bit of literary magical realism. I'm stoked.

The Age Of Bimbocracy

For those who are interested in how the Palin-Kardashian-Hilton
axis will impose rule by reality show, check out the article at:
http://zombiestop.wordpress.com

I just got a short story published in a Romanian magazine.

Am auzit de... (2) [tr. "I've heard of... (2)"]

My short story “SCOPE” just went live over at Thunderdome.

This is the first in what I hope may become a short series of pulp-style pieces.

Just a bit of fun really, think guns and blood, action packed scenes mixed with grimy noir. Something like that anyway,

You can read the story here.

The guys from Booked were kind enough to invite me to take part in their author interview podcast series today. In fact, their last couple of weeks’ episodes have been devoted to the Warmed and Bound Sessions, speaking to my fellow contributors in the anthology. We talk about my story “Headshot,” the book trailer I created to promote the collection, my upcoming novel Flashover, influences, screenwriting, music, and probably some other things I’ve since forgotten. They’re an easygoing and honest duo, with excellent taste in books that much of The Cult shares, so be sure to subscribe after you’ve checked out a few episodes.

Listen here.

Crime Factory #7 is LIVE! New Fiction and Features by Todd Robinson, Sean Doolittle, Matthew C Funk, Nik Korpon, Jordan Harper, Frank Wheeler Jr., F. Paul Wilson, Chad Eagleton, Richard Thomas (with my story "Seeing Red" that I wrote in the Jack Ketchum intensive), Joelle Charbonneau, Edward Grainger, Peter Risley, Andrew Nette, David Whish-Wilson, Don Lafferty, James Peak, and many, many, many more!

http://www.crimefactoryzine.com/main/Home.html

Former agent turned lit coach, Erin Reel is featuring me on her blog regarding authors and how they social network. I believe she's got Lidia Yuknavitch lined up for this, too, if I'm not mistaken.

Here's mine: http://thelitcoach.blogspot.com/2011/08/focus-and-todays-writer-blogshop...

My review of Kio Stark's disorienting and lush novel Follow Me Down is now live at The Nervous Breakdown.

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthomas/2011/08/followmedown_star/

The Noir at the Bar anthology to benefit Subterranean Books

http://store.subbooks.com/product/noir-bar

is now out. $12. Only at SB. Such a great list of authors, honored to be in here. I read with these guys last October and it was a great time.

TOC:

Foreword, Jed & Scott
Gunpowder & Aluminum Foil, Matthew McBride
One Fine Bird, Cameron Ashley
The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones, Scott Phillips
Thin Mints, Daniel O’Shea
Doe Run Road, Dennis Tafoya
They Take You, Kyle Minor
Deviances, Frank Bill
Pig Helmet & The Wall of Life, Pinckney Benedict
An Orphan’s Tale, Jonathan Woods
Ballad of Larry Plank, Derek Nikita
Five Revelations Concerning Jenny L. as Told to Maura C. by a Compassionate Angel, Laura Benedict
Care of the Circumcised Penis, Sean Doolittle
The Morning After, Jedidiah Ayres
Underground Wonder Bound, Richard Thomas
Outside Lou’s, David Cirillo, Illustrations by Matt Kindt
Everyone Grieves in a Unique Way, Anthony Neil Smith
Big Artie, Malachi Stone
Vampires are Pussies, Chris La Tray
Afterword, Rod Wiethop

New fiction by:

-Pablo D'Stair
-Nik Korpon
-Brandon Tietz
-Richard Thomas
-Craig Wallwork

Edited by Caleb J. Ross

Check this out guys. The NOIR AT THE BAR anthology trailer. Spread the word.

My story "Twenty Reasons to Stay and One to Leave" is now LIVE at Metazen.

http://www.metazen.ca/?p=7486

I really like what these guys are doing. They publish one new story a day, and today, Monday, August 8th, I'm up. Great group of writers publishing here, honored to be a part of it. This story was a bit different than what I usually do, built on on idea, one phrase that starts off "Because..." which in my head, was the voice of the protagonist answering the accusations towards him: "Why do you stay with her?" or "Why don't you leave?" or "Why is she so screwed up?" or "Why do you still help her?"

God Hates Authors, a live reading, is now available for livestream or downloadable MP3 format.

This event took place in Kansas City on Aug. 7th, and features live readings from myself, Caleb J. Ross, and Jesus Angel Garcia.

Follow the link to stream or download: http://www.calebjross.com/podcast/episode-006-a-live-reading-at-czar-bar...

I'm in a new anthology called "Amsterdamned If You Do" through the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.

This anthology is available in both print and electronic versions.

Check it out here: http://www.cclapcenter.com/amsterdamned/

My review of Donald Ray Pollock's THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME is now live at The Nervous Breakdown.

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthomas/2011/08/devil_pollock

Dark book, wild ride, lush and depressing and raw. Loved it.

My short essay on Blade Runner (the text is in Romanian).

An excerpt from Pablo D'Stair's VHS is up at my site, with links to all of his other excerpts as well. Spread the word!

http://whatdoesnotkillme.com/2011/08/24/pablo_vhs/

My story BILLY THE WHALE is live over at Dirty Noir.

Chuffed about this, really good company over there, I'm way out of my depth amongst those guys heh.

The Kindle eBook for the Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology is now OUT! With tons of extras.

http://www.amazon.com/Warmed-Bound-Velvet-Anthology-ebook/dp/B005J3UAK8

Other versions coming soon.

http://litreactor.com/

You may want to check this out.

wickerkat wrote:

http://litreactor.com/

You may want to check this out.

The Bomb. Nice to see a kick-ass name was created.

wickerkat wrote:

http://litreactor.com/

You may want to check this out.

Hmm, yes this all looks very interesting. I joined the mailing list, and shall be taking a peek come October.

My review of Crimes in Southern Indiana is now live,up at The Nervous Breakdown. Visceral southern gothic shorts. Good stuff.

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthomas/2011/09/cisi_bill/

I ran an interview with Fred Venturini - author of The Samaritan, a future book club pick here.

If you are interested you can see the article here.

Nice job, both of you. I'm finishing up Crimes right now (and Corydon's not far from where I grew up and where my extended family lives). And Samaritan was one of my favorite reads this year, certainly one of its biggest surprises (no offense). It's just a really strong first novel.

I couldn't agree more -Samaritan's actually the best book I've read this year. Or my #1. A really strong first novel indeed.

Hey Nathan it was actually your feedback that put me on to The Samaritan in the first place.

And yeah, it's a top quality book. Was great to shoot a few questions Fred's way. Nice guy.

My story "Kiss Off" based on the song by the band Violent Femmes is now live at Emprise Review, in Issue #21.

http://emprisereview.com/emprise-21/kiss-off/

my first creative non-fiction essay,

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/rthomas/2011/09/road-tripping-gone-ba...

"Road Tripping Gone Bad" is now live at The Nervous Breakdown. it's a bit of debauchery from my youth.

Not sure where where the "Acceptances" thread went -maybe it's going over to LitReactor which is great, but I just received word that my story "No Fly Zone" will be appearing at InfectiveINk.com in October. It's a very short piece, and influenced by one of their prompts that I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to write about -due to past, personal experience. But anyway those guys have a lot of great stuff going on over there, so since my story's not live yet and technically this thread is to promote something, I'll promote Them: http://infectiveink.com/archivedate.html (InfectiveINk.com)

I've probably directed most of you to this already, so for fear of over saturation (is that even possible, to over saturate something?) here's my newest Stranger Will promotional video. Damn, I should really start focusing on a different book.

my debut story over at the ThunderDome http://www.thundadome.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=135:passe...

proud to be included among these writers...

music.sherlock isn't fooking about with this one.

Thundadome are running a whole bunch of creepy, horror orientated stories this month.

Check out the list

October 3: Sterling Road by Daniel Donche
October 6: Passersby by Christian Williams
October 10: 2X2L Calling PQ by Kristopher Monroe
October 12: Broken Things in a Box by DB Cox
October 17: Where the Horror Is by Martin Garrity
October 19: With All Fine Corpses by Katheryn Soverane
October 24: Needlemen of New Orleans by Matthew C Funk
October 26: Johnny Be Gone by Alexandria Ali
October 28: Order of the Ficus by Bob Pastorella

Glad to be amongst this bunch. Quite a few names a few of you will recognise there.

Gonna be some good reading

Hey, good news. I placed SIXTH out of 200+ entries in the Zouch micro-fiction contest. Craig Wallwork came in 8th. Stories will be up at the Zouch website in the near future. Cool contest.

http://www.zouchmagazine.com/zouch-magazines-lit-bits-fiction-contest/?w...

Nice! Congratulations to you both. Will be checking those out.

My blog is leaning more towards entertainment nowadays.

http://trueposer.blogspot.com

Been working on some stuff but nothing has been officially published just yet (It could be because I'm too lazy to go through the Writers Market lately and I can't seem to find a market for stories about how bulldogs are dicks.)