My friend Todd McNamee will be holding a reading this Saturday at Old World Merchants in Vancouver, WA, “surrounded by all my wonderful friends and family,” he writes on the event’s Facebook page. “I am very excited to be doing this at my dear friend’s import store” — which is such a cool venue forContinue reading “Interview with Todd McNamee, author of Drifting”
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I’ve been nominated for the storySouth Million Writers Award!
Folks, this is just too amazing not to share: The editors at Bartleby Snopes have nominated my story “Lightning My Pilot” for the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award! It’s a hell of an honor, and I’m inexpressibly proud to be listed alongside Joseph Lambach’s “Cutting Hair for My Sister” and Brian Kayser’s “Underwear and Leftovers.” Thanks, SO MUCH,Continue reading “I’ve been nominated for the storySouth Million Writers Award!”
Ryan Werner on small presses, road trips, and rock-n-roll
About a month ago, I posted about the big Unshod Quills One-Hit Wonders reading here in Portland, with a lot of attention to literary rock star (literally) Ryan Werner. But there’s a hell of a lot more to his side of that story, and today, in Passages North, he tells it: We do all ofContinue reading “Ryan Werner on small presses, road trips, and rock-n-roll”
The Jersey Devil never rhymes . . .
. . . But this month, for the first time in a full issue, we have poetry. That’s right, folks: your friendly neighborhood Jersey Devil Press, home to all your favorite short fiction — sci-fi, horror, comedy, sci-hor-medy, deep literary musings, and not-so-deep literary musings — has gone all bard-y and started breaking lines andContinue reading “The Jersey Devil never rhymes . . .”
Todd McNamee releases “Drifting”
“I’m a bastard.” Could you ask for a better opening line? But the narrator in Todd McNamee’s debut novel, Drifting, isn’t speaking figuratively or self-depracatingly: he means this literally. “My name is Patrick Mulligan and I was raised an only child in Portland, Oregon, by a mother who loved me,” the narrator continues. “My father’sContinue reading “Todd McNamee releases “Drifting””
North Texas writers
I tout the books of friends and writers I admire here on the blog from time to time, but as good fortune would have it, lately I’ve been getting a lot of news about books from former classmates! I did my doctorate in English at the University of North Texas, where I had the tremendousContinue reading “North Texas writers”
Unshod Quills One-Hit Wonders and reading in Portland
I am so, so fortunate to be part of so many little circles of writing communities — authors, poets, editors, publishers, public readers, Portlanders…. And when two of those circles overlap in a kind if literary Venn diagram, the fun doesn’t get smaller, it gets more concentrated. So you can imagine the degree of AwesomeContinue reading “Unshod Quills One-Hit Wonders and reading in Portland”
How to handle rejection from a literary agent
Sit quietly and sip coffee all morning long. Resist the urge to switch from coffee to hard liquor. At least until after lunch. Forget breakfast. You’re wallowing, after all. Absentmindedly nibble banana chips just to say you ate something. Eventually, let your loved ones express outrage on your behalf. Secretly feel both validated and vindicated,Continue reading “How to handle rejection from a literary agent”
Even the Jersey Devil worships the Great Old Ones
When I was in high school, I was a huge horror fan. I plowed through Stephen King, devoured Clive Barker, dabbled in Dean Koontz. When I discovered that Poe — which we were supposed to read for school and was therefore supposed to be boring — was actually a killer horror writer, I plunged intoContinue reading “Even the Jersey Devil worships the Great Old Ones”
How to order The Disordered
Sunnyoutside Press is doing book trailers now. Their first is for the poetry collection The Disordered, by Anhvu Buchanan. The book comes out next week, but you can get on the preorders here: http://sunnyoutside.com/releases/066/o.html Why share this with you? Two reasons: Sunnyoutside has a hell of a reputation with poetry, and they put out some of my favorite poetryContinue reading “How to order The Disordered”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 