The Brothel: A Whoring Thread for Writers

I have a piece of Flash on Out Of The Gutter Online titled "The Champ"

http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2013/04/the-champ.html

STARING INTO THE ABYSS releases today! Whatever help you can offer, I'd really appreciate it.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Staring-into-Abyss-Richard-Thomas/dp/9197972592
Microsite: http://abyss.krakenpress.com/

"The stories in STARING INTO THE ABYSS are little literary predators that are smart, savage, and stealthy, with a lethal pounce at the end. Readers who enjoy finely-crafted and genuinely disturbing dark fiction will love Richard Thomas's outstanding collection."
--Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Monsters in L.A.

"STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon."
--Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, and Kin.

"With STARING INTO THE ABYSS, Richard Thomas takes you on a ride into a world of darkness and despair, punches you in the gut, and leaves you breathless. You'll hug your psyche a little tighter after reading."
--Damien Walters Grintalis, author of Ink

"STARING INTO THE ABYSS is gritty and ugly, seductive and sexy. Inside these filthy walls you will find everything you've ever feared you'd become; thugs, drunks, cons, prostitutes, murderers. Think of these pages as a mirror of what anyone--even you--can become, after just a few critical mistakes in life. Richard Thomas has proven time and again that he is one of the rising stars in the neo-noir culture. With Staring into the Abyss, he proves he has mastered it." --Max Booth III, author of True Stories Told By a Liar and Black Cadillacs

"NO ONE DOES IT like Richard Thomas. Dark and disturbing, his unique blend of horror and noir digs its way into your psyche and leaves you begging for more."
-C. W. LaSart, author of Ad Nauseam

I liked it, Dakota. Love OOTG. Richard, I hope Staring Into The Abyss is doing well or off to a good start—I know it was anticipated among more than a few people who've made comments.

Some cool news from my neck of the woods—My story “Dog Killer” placed among this year’s Top 5 Winners of The Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards for the Crime category. Page 48 in the latest issue (May/June 2013) has the details and winners. There’s a nice interview with the Grand Prize Winner, too.

Coolest part for me is that I wrote and worked on the story here at the Cult before the workshops moved over to LitReactor. So it’s special for me to come back with the news. I can’t recommend the intensives enough if anyone’s considering a go in that direction. Definitely do it.

Here’s the cover of the new WD with the competition results:

Sick. Congrats, Nathan!

wow, nathan, congrats, that's awesome! and thanks for the kind words.

Two stories came out today. "Bloodline" in DADDY COOL and "Chrysalis" in Arcadia.

http://www.amazon.com/Daddy-Cool-Ben-Tanzer/dp/1467563064

http://www.arcadiamagazine.org/subscribe.html

"Bloodline" has rabbits and a car accident.
"Chrysalis" has a caterpillar and a father that sells all the xmas presents.

ENJOY!

wickerkat wrote:

^ Part of my recent $200 Amazon orgy.

sweet! "Bloodline" is kind of my take on Watership Down. hope you dig it. and thanks for the continued support.

It was the tagline, "There will be rabbits" that hooked me.

lol...yeah, it's a weird one. but i've always had a soft spot for it. hope you dig it.

In case you missed it I have an article up at FLAVORWIRE on the "Ten Essential Neo-Noir Authors." I'm sure you'll recognize a LOT of names on this list.

http://flavorwire.com/388913/10-essential-neo-noir-authors