February 2012
4 posts
“Patchett: “Now, listen this is what I want from you. When your book comes out, I...”
– Indies are coming back
Stephen Colbert calls Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos a vindictive man - GeekWire
(via crimespreecats)
18,000
I’m at 18,000 very sloppy words in my new novella project for Abattoir Press (Redrum Horror’s weird-o second cousin of an imprint.) Rerum/Abattoir guru, Ed Kurtz, wanted between 20,000-to-25,000 words and this should by no means be an issue to reach this count. Hopefully I’ll add at least 1000 words more on my lunch hour today.
Still haven’t come up with a title for it,...
Just A Little Nuts
I Live and Die by Rule #15 of Chuck Wendig’s 25 Reasons That Writers Are Bug Fuck Nuts:
“The one thing that e-readers have robbed from us is the ability to throw all the books we own into a room and roll around on them, naked….”
January 2012
23 posts
Where the magic happens!
Inspired by drunken degenerate John Hornor Jacobs (Southern Gods) and my pal Peter Farris (The forthcoming Last Call For The Living) I decided to share a few pics of where I do the bulk of my writing. (Plus, I actually had a day to do nothing but organize my office, so it looks fairly well organized in these pictures)
As a quick warning, I’m messy. I love piles of books and paper, so...
SHOCKER! Raymond Chandler Hated Hitchcock! →
Social Media
My friend Benjamin Whitmer (Pike, Satan is Real) posted this today on his blog, Kick Him, Honey. (if you haven’t read the blog before you can check it out right HERE) The quote below is apparently a status update from someone he’s Facebook friends with:
So, I became concerned about my son’s anger about a week ago. He keeps posting right here on facebook statuses of angered...
“Soon afterward he left the park and the next morning he was on his way to...”
– Roberto Bolaño, from 2666, trans. Natasha Wimmer (via the-final-sentence)
Writing Crime Fiction with David Corbett |... →
If I was going to have anyone teach me how to write crime fiction, it would David Corbett (Don’t They Know I’m Running)
Johnny Shaw Likes Me
Johnny Shaw (Author of Dove Season) did a quick review of my short story, An Appointment with Larry, from my collection The Chaos We Know, over at:
HOW MANY SHORT STORIES CAN YOU READ IN ONE YEAR? CAN YOU READ A STORY A DAY FOR ONE YEAR?
By the way, I’ll be having my very first book signing along with Johnny (and maybe John Rector, but we’ll see) on March 27th at the Poisoned...
Weird New Project
So I’ve started a new long project for Redrum Horror out of Austin, Texas. It’s a group thing featuring a character created by the publisher, Ed Kurtz. As a writer, I’ve always avoided this type of project (I’ve turned down three similar projects in the last year.) mostly because I like generating original material, but the character that Ed’s created is pretty...
