A while back, I announced that I’ll be doing an online reading from Hagridden. That’s online, as in streaming video, live on your computer while you trim your fingernails and pick your nose (don’t worry — you can see me, but I can’t see you). This all goes down on Thursday, June 5, from 6-7 pmContinue reading “Reading from Hagridden at Lit Demon”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
HAGRIDDEN is all over the interwebs and all over the nation
So, gang, it’s official: Hagridden is coming out August 19. To celebrate, Columbus Press has launched both a website for the novel and a page on their own publisher website, and I’m now officially announcing the release party, to take place at the public library in my own hometown back in Boerne, Texas. Come findContinue reading “HAGRIDDEN is all over the interwebs and all over the nation”
My favorite writers (who happen to be women)
A few days ago, author Mary Miller published a piece in Vol. 1 Brooklyn called “My Problem with VIDA: A Report from the Field.” In it, Miller expresses how “uncomfortable” she is with the gender statistics that the VIDA Report gathers and distributes — or rather, with the way in which such statistics gender our considerationContinue reading “My favorite writers (who happen to be women)”
Facebook got sliced up with Box Cutters and feels pretty Hagridden
So, per my publisher’s request, I now have an Author Page on Facebook. It’s easy to find: just search my name and I should turn up. Or scroll down the sidebar on my website and you’ll see a little Like button for the page (it looks like that image at right). Or just click thisContinue reading “Facebook got sliced up with Box Cutters and feels pretty Hagridden”
Reader poll: Choose your next adventure
My wife is ready to analyze a new librarian portrayal in film on her Reel Librarians website — and YOU get to choose which film! Visit the post, take the poll, tune in for some amazing critical analysis: Reader poll: Choose your next adventure.
Freedom and equality in Oregon
This isn’t really within the purview of this blog, where I mostly write about literature and education. But I love my adopted home state of Oregon, and today, Oregon is chock full of love. This has been too long coming, but I am very, VERY happy that’s it’s here. I am so proud of my state,Continue reading “Freedom and equality in Oregon”
The jobs we work
The jobs we do become the stories we write. That old axiom, “Write what you know,” might as well be “Write what you’ve done.” I’ve been thinking about that as I work on an essay about setting in fiction, because part of that essay talks about how the places I’ve worked become places in myContinue reading “The jobs we work”
The Jersey Devil is afraid of nothing!
The May issue of Jersey Devil Press is out, and it’s a pretty scary one. But that’s mostly because the whole issue deals in fear — phobias, to be specific. Arachnophobia, which I think we can all identify with. Unless you’re Gwen Stacy. And thanatophobia, for those of you not yet ready to quit thisContinue reading “The Jersey Devil is afraid of nothing!”
Dream journal: writers, journeys, and complicated futons
I sometimes have dreams so vivid I have to write them down when I wake up. Sometimes those things wind up in notebooks, other times they wind up on Facebook (and sometimes they wind up as fiction), and, recently, I’ve decided to let them start showing up here. I don’t anticipate this becoming a regularContinue reading “Dream journal: writers, journeys, and complicated futons”
#Haikus4Sundiata
Today is Haikus for Sundiata Acoli day. The event, organized by Portland poet Walidah Imarisha and launched by the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign, is a public literary activism movement to honor Sundiata Acoli and call for his release from prison. Acoli is a political prisoner, hounded by police for his membership in the Black Panther Party in the ’60s and ’70s (Sundiata’sContinue reading “#Haikus4Sundiata”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 