Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown

Ryan Werner is for real

So, check it: my good friend/archnemesis, frequent referent in my blog posts, Captain Caveman lookalike, Midwest rock star, and kick-ass writer, Ryan Werner, has launched himself a website. And it fairly rules. Really clever concept and structure, gang, with links to all his shenanigans. If you like good fiction, sleazy rock-n-roll, and/or really hairy dudes,Continue reading “Ryan Werner is for real”

Originally posted on chloe caldwell:
Hey everyone! Some news. I’m going on tour this summer to promote  and do readings from “Legs Get Led Astray”. I’m flying to Austin, reading there, and also reading in Houston, Oxford, New Orleans, Tuscaloosa, and Atlanta. I’m going with four other female writers: Elizabeth Ellen, Mary Miller, Brandi Wells,…

Kick your shoes off and make yourselves at home

So, thanks for WordPress “Freshly Pressing” me yesterday, I have an absolute gaggle of new visitors to the site. And that is fantastic! Thank you all so much for visiting, for perusing the website, for commenting on posts and pages . . . . I’m overwhelmed, but in the best possible way. I wish IContinue reading “Kick your shoes off and make yourselves at home”

I am both fresh and pressed. Like I have a job interview.

Seriously. I’ve been keeping an eye on stats today because I knew some friends were looking at my post about Maurice Sendak, and sometime between commercials on The Voice, my numnbers jumped by almost 100 views. Which NEVER happens. So I checked. And saw this: I’ve been hoping for a long time that sooner orContinue reading “I am both fresh and pressed. Like I have a job interview.”

“We’ll eat you up — we love you so!”

When I was a child, I knew where the wild things were. I was one of them. When I read Maurice Sendak’s classic book — again and again — as a child, that was one of the most important things I took away from the text. I was a wild terror of a boy, afterContinue reading ““We’ll eat you up — we love you so!””

Jersey Devil Press is full of superheros…

Or animals. Because for some reason, our Avengers-inspired assembly of Jersey Devil All-Stars didn’t wind up writing about superheros, but about animals. Every story. Which is awesome, because we’re talking about stories from Kimberly Lojewski,  Ryan Werner, y.t. sumner, and Hilary Gan. Hobos and alligators, lost dogs and too many pudding cups, talking birds and suicide,Continue reading “Jersey Devil Press is full of superheros…”

Droomonderduik: “Dream Hiding”

A few months back, I received an email from a Dutch editor. She’d seen one of my photos from the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, which I’d taken during our trip there back in 2010. The editor was working on a Dutch-language book about the zoo, and she wanted to include my photo in the book.Continue reading “Droomonderduik: “Dream Hiding””