In my neighborhood here in Northeast Portland, someone has put together a Wishing Tree. The tree is full of small nails, and there are two clipboards, one explaining the concept and the other holding a plastic baggie full of cardstock tags and a permanent marker. The idea is to take a tag, write your wishContinue reading “The wishing tree”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
New publication — in the Revenge of the Scammed Anthology!
I’ve been hyping this off an on, but I have new news about it: The Revenge of the Scammed Anthology, a benefit book to help out writer Edward J Rathke, will now include a new story by me, written just for this project! So if you haven’t donated to the campaign yet, head over thereContinue reading “New publication — in the Revenge of the Scammed Anthology!”
ATTN: Indie Lit Community
Author Michael J Seidlinger has put together a hell of a list of indie-press awesomeness coming our way in 2014. I’m on this list (Hagridden is coming your way this fall, gang!), but so are dozens of other writers I know and love. What’s particularly cool is that Seidlinger also includes some announced anthologies andContinue reading “ATTN: Indie Lit Community”
“In this moment I want to allow myself joy.”*
The biggest lie I ever told myself about writing is that I had to hurry up and do it. Every time I sat down and thought about writing — and I don’t know why I put that in the past tense, because I still do it — I would tell myself the get the wordsContinue reading ““In this moment I want to allow myself joy.”*”
The Revenge of the Scammed
A while back, a fellow writer, Edward J. Rathke, got ripped off. Long story short: a guy hired him to write a book, wrote a fraudulent check, and wound up scamming Rathke out of his entire savings. So we in the writing community are banding together to help Rathke out — and get revenge on theContinue reading “The Revenge of the Scammed”
The Jersey Devil likes all the best music, even at our age
This month’s issue of Jersey Devil Press is all kinds of milestone-ish. Not only is it the first issue of 2014, it’s also the 50th issue. Fifty! It’s rare enough that any literary magazine makes it that far, but for a weird little online magazine that loves dick jokes and aliens that live on humanContinue reading “The Jersey Devil likes all the best music, even at our age”
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that manyContinue reading “2013 in review”
People reading — and writing about — Box Cutters
One last post this year of photos from readers. But I’m adding a bonus here: some snippets of reviews people have been posting on Goodreads and Amazon and Powell’s! Like some other friends/readers, Crystal decided to take my book on a little road trip. “Well-written short fiction that travels well and lends itself to funContinue reading “People reading — and writing about — Box Cutters“
Booklist 2013
I’ve been going over my reading list for the past year, and it’s a doozy. Altogether I plowed through 75 books, and while that’s two fewer than last year, it’s still a hell of a year. Here’s the whole list, followed by a sort of break-down: Stan Allyn, The Day the Sun Didn’t Rise JanetContinue reading “Booklist 2013”
2013: the year of all the awesome I could ever want
I’ve been looking over 2013 and thinking about my writing work, and folks, this has been one hell of a year. It started in the very first weeks of January, when I received — almost back-to-back — an offer from sunnyoutside press to publish my first book, Box Cutters, and an Oregon Literary Fellowship. BothContinue reading “2013: the year of all the awesome I could ever want”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 