So I figured I'd head on over here to Bloody knuckles to gear myself up before I took a run at a couple of shorts I wanted to get finished up this weekend. Plus I wanted to share some cool news and a few links as well.
Well, I have to say this week has been one of the coolest in my brief publishing life. Not only did my story from Pulp Pusher hit, but so did my first Podcast at Crimewav.com (This was the big news I mentioned in previous posts.) Aldo the Mystery Dawg (I'm not even going to attempt to link up all the stuff Aldo does online, but trust me when I say the dude is busy.) E-mailed me a couple of weeks ago asking me to use one of my stories that appeared on his long fiction site Darkest Before the Dawn . Needless to say I was stoked and immediately replied with a big fat YES! If you haven't been to Crimewav.com, I suggest you take a gander. I've been hooked ever since they ran Jason Starr's excellent short, "The last Bachelor of North Miami" in episode 3.
The podast of my story, "A Quiet minute of Reflection." turned out really well thanks to the awesome efforts of Julio from NY and the voice actors who worked on the story. Also, I can't thank Aldo enough for opportunity to appear along side so many great writer's. I will also give everyone the warning ahead of time that the story starts out pretty NC-17, so be forewarned.
Okay, enough of me sucking other people's dick's and back to going down on myself.
In more great news about me, Anthony Neil Smith, great grand daddy editor supreme of Plots with Guns and author of Yellow Medicine and the forth coming Hotdoggin' picked up my story, 'Clinical Trial' for issue #5 of PWG. I love me some Plots with Guns, and the story that's appearing is my favorite story (outside of my story, Performance Anxiety, over at Bad Things)
that I wrote in 2008. I had a blast writing it, and I hope you take a look at it when it hits. (Also make sure to give Frank Bill's new one a look as well. Yeah, the guy is every where right now.)
And in the last of the self promotion crap, Rey from Flash Fiction Offensive picked up one of the the first new ones of 2009. The Zine is still in its infancy, but what they've put out so far has been pretty good. so make sure and check it out, or if you have a flash piece, why not think about sending it over so he can take a look.
And last but far from least, Aldo (Yeah, that Aldo again) picked up the first Hardboiled story I ever put to paper for Darkest Before the Dawn. The story is called 'Savage Henry Sings the Blues' and I wrote at the end of 2005 in a spiral notebook and only recently type it up (I'm planning on doing this with a few other pieces I wrote when I finally figured out that I really liked writing about shitty people who like doing shitty things to other shitty people.)Now, I'll be the first to admit that the story is not my best work, but it has a big place in the red lumpy thing in my chest.
Aldo also informed me that Darkest will be getting a new URL much in the same vein as his other site Powderburn Flash, I can't wait to see how it looks once it's up.
One last thing before I scat. I always like passing cool links along when I come across them, and today Duane "Polish Magic" Swiercynski posted a cool mini-writing bio at his little slice of head space Secret Dead Blog. As I've said before, I dig Duane's stuff, and his blog was the one that turned me into the obsessive blog reader I am today.(and all because I was just looking for more information on the dude after reading his second novel, the Wheelman, and wanted to find more info about the guy.) Take a couple of minutes and give it a read if you haven't already. It's cool because it's neat to know even super inovative writer's like Duane had their growing pains.
Anyway, enough fucking around, and back to the races.
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