Didn’t you ever run so fast you thought your legs were going to fall off? You know, like when you were running towards the swings? Or running away from Satan? The neighbor’s dog. Or, in this case, the rougarou! That’s right, gang: come September 20, the residents of Columbus, Ohio, will be racing through the twilitContinue reading “Rougarou: Journey to the End of the Night”
Category Archives: Hagridden
5 character facts: the “special features” part of Hagridden
There’s this writerly meme going around. The rules: to share five facts about the main character from my current work-in-progress. I got tapped for this on Facebook, by the amazing Ally Malinenko, author of one of my favorite stories ever in Jersey Devil Press. Ally has a book coming out (very!) soon, the beautiful-sounding ThisContinue reading “5 character facts: the “special features” part of Hagridden”
A sneak preview of Hagridden
Apologies to people following me on Twitter or on my Facebook page, for whom this is repeated news. But my advance review copies of Hagridden came in the mail today. Please excuse me while I do a happy dance. It’s still the rough copy — it doesn’t yet have cover art, the blurbs are all stillContinue reading “A sneak preview of Hagridden“
On making a book trailer
I wanted a book trailer for Hagridden. I don’t know what good they do, really, and I might not have really worried about it at all, but just about the time my publisher and I were going over the initial proof of my novel, I saw the trailer for Leesa Cross-Smith’s Every Kiss a War.Continue reading “On making a book trailer”
Reading from Hagridden at Lit Demon
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”
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”
Hagridden (and practically every other indie novel this year) gets some early love
Author and editor Michael Seidlinger has been engaged in a hell of a project this year. For the past couple of months, he’s been gathering a list of pretty much every indie book coming out this year. And it’s a hell of a list, including news of forthcoming books by Jacob M. Appel, David S. Atkinson, Ryan W.Continue reading “Hagridden (and practically every other indie novel this year) gets some early love”
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”
When I was a kid, I wanted to be on radio
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”
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”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 