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New Story: Mixed Martial Arts and the BLOODY KNUCKLES MMAnthology
So, a couple of years ago I wrote my first piece of realistic fiction in a long, long time. Had to flex some muscles other than genre. The first line--"You already know how this will end."--had stuck in my head for a while before I committed to writing the story. "Submitting the Abyss" is recursive and oh-so experimental for me (2nd PPOV, ( Read more... ) -
It's Rambling Not-Review Time: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Nine stories comprise the latest collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, by Laird Barron. His brand of cosmic horror depends largely on several media and movement and mythos, the least of which are Lovecraftian and '70's horror/crimesploitation/grindhouse and noir. The best of the bunch manage to combine all of the above. The least ( Read more... ) -
The Writerly Year in Review
So, year in review brag roll (but not). This year has been a most interesting one in terms of writing. I logged more poetry than usual. Only a few short stories. The rest below ( Read more... ) -
What's Up?
Been too long, but the holidays have me catching up on sleep/rest and family time along with reading and writing time. So, I finally began reading As I Lay Dying and am steadily re-admiring Faulkner's use of rolling POV's. After that, I've got Absalom, Abasalom! on deck and am awaiting some light/fun fare in John Ringo's Under a Graveyard Sky ( Read more... ) -
UPDATE: Where Else Can I Find That Paperback, Berry?
The paperback is now available via Amazon. -
Live Now from Papaveria Press: OLD SOULS AND THE GRAMMAR OF THEIR WANDERINGS
Follow the linkage to the site for direct order. Anywhere from a few days to a week, and it'll be available on Amazon. Will post again at that juncture.
Thanks in advance, y'all.
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Popping in to Say, "Hello."
"Hello."
There, that much is done!
Been too long in these quiet halls of LiveJournal.
Have some news to share: August 27, the mini-collection, Old Souls and the Grammar of Their Wanderings, goes live from Papaveria Press. You'll get two poems, a short story, and a novelette with this paperback ( Read more... ) -
Grinding Along Means You Still Got Some Gears Left
The writing recently has planed off in good ways, but the challenges remain.
The Short Story Collection: The TOC of Down These Secret Paths stands tighter with a more reasonable flow for the stories, at least as group-things ( Read more... ) -
Grunt Work Cycle: Volume One: The Revisioning: A Rambling Not-Self-Analysis of Process
I thought back to an old post where bogwitch64 was curious about my writing process for the Southern Arthuriana novel. Now that zero-draft is done (and that's so loose a term it's pathetic: done for a rough-rough draft), it's time for sifting through legal pads and files. See, I'm a marginalia type guy. Got notes for the notes for the notes. Probably ( Read more... ) -
That's a Wrap, Folks
Zero-draft done, this 17th day of February, 2013. Maybe in the loosest since, there's a novel there. A family saga. A contemporary retelling of part and parcel of Arthurian legend ( Read more... )