What I was in third grade, my parents bought me on of those radio microphones, the ones where you could tune into a low-frequency dial on the radio and broadcast yourself over the airwaves. I used it to rap alongside Ray Parker, Jr’s theme song to Ghostbusters. Go ahead. You know you want to. I alreadyContinue reading “When I was a kid, I wanted to be on radio”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
You guessed it: people are STILL reading Box Cutters
In the past month, I’ve posted not one — not two — but three posts about people reading my chapbook, Box Cutters. And the photos of happy readers keep coming! As of today, it might be a bit of a squeeze to get your copy of my book by Christmas (unless you order from Amazon and haveContinue reading “You guessed it: people are STILL reading Box Cutters“
Routine/no routine in writing
The other day, a friend and former student, Lane, wrote me to ask about my writing habits and my routines: I’ve noticed that you have been keeping yourself particularly busy lately, with all of your writings, classes and such. [. . .] I wanted to ask you this: how do you make time for yourselfContinue reading “Routine/no routine in writing”
Even MORE people reading Box Cutters
Since my chapbook, Box Cutters, came out a month ago, I’ve been posting photos of my book (here and here), sometimes with the the people who bought it, sometimes in weird locations. And as the book keeps going out there into the big wide world, photos from readers keep coming in! So here’s another round of folksContinue reading “Even MORE people reading Box Cutters“
Radio hyped the literature star
I know. That was the most tortured play on words I might ever have mangled. But I don’t care, because what follows it is cool: I got name-dropped on The Literary Underground‘s internet radio program The Unknown Show with Bud Smith. Hell, I got more than name-dropped: sunnyoutside press editor David McNamara and Bud SmithContinue reading “Radio hyped the literature star”
Buy books for the holidays — THESE books
It’s been a book year in the Snoek-Brown household. I already posted about the book-shopping my wife and I did over the Thanksgiving weekend, but we’ve recently picked up several more books — some as gifts, some as door prizes, some as new purchases of our own — and yesterday, as I was straightening upContinue reading “Buy books for the holidays — THESE books”
The Jersey Devil got into the eggnog
The time has come (a few days late) at last, folks: the December issue of Jersey Devil Press is live. It was worth the wait. This issue includes a surprisingly heart-wrenching story about sentient vending machines, a pensive tale of a lost mother, a terrifying Lovecraftian horror story about a janitor in a mental hospital,Continue reading “The Jersey Devil got into the eggnog”
New review of Box Cutters
This morning comes with coffee, a banana, a little NPR… and a wonderful review of Box Cutters, over at The Small Press Book Review, by Alex DeBonis. The words undo me. The stories in Box Cutters, Samuel Snoek-Brown’s flash fiction collection, operate on the principle that what’s included suggests what’s left out, with certain pieces resonatingContinue reading “New review of Box Cutters“
Hagridden, forthcoming from Columbus Press
You’re reading that right, folks. For a few years now, a lot of you who follow the blog or know me via Facebook have been keeping tabs on my novel, Hagridden — maybe you saw some of the earliest excerpts from the NaNoWriMo draft, or you shared resources with me when I was doing research forContinue reading “Hagridden, forthcoming from Columbus Press”
Book shopping for the holidays
Rather unintentionally, this holiday weekend has been quite a book-shopping extravaganza here in the Snoek-Brown household. It all started on the night before Thanksgiving, when Kevin Sampsell — Portland author, publisher, and man in charge of the small press section at Powell’s Books — posted on Facebook that my chapbook, Box Cutters, had hit the shelves at Powell’s.Continue reading “Book shopping for the holidays”
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