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”
Category Archives: reading
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“
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“
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“
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“
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”
More people reading Box Cutters
A little while ago, I posted a series of photos of my book — sometimes with the the people who bought it, sometimes in weird locations — and it was great fun! Since then, more photos have been coming in, so here’s another round of folks who’ve bought my chapbook, Box Cutters: BONUS: Today I gotContinue reading “More people reading Box Cutters”
Putting our shoes on. Saying goodbye.
It turns out that nothing lives forever. Every time I realize that, I realize it anew. It’s never any less shocking. So begins the heartfelt — and heartbreaking — adieu from my colleagues Dena Rash Guzman and Wendy Ellis at Unshod Quills, which is closing up shop this month. These things happen. All too oftenContinue reading “Putting our shoes on. Saying goodbye.”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 