I know I’ve already mentioned Jersey Devil Press’s forthcoming story collection by Ryan Werner, but it bears repeating, which is why Ryan is blogging about it every day this month leading up to the release of Shake Away These Constant Days. If you aren’t reading those posts — well, maybe that’s okay, because then you’llContinue reading “Ryan Werner (Wrote a Book) — and I’m one of the dudes publishing it”
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Photo blog 96
As I said last week, I’m in Texas. I’m still running around taking photos, but I’m also on vacation so I haven’t bothering uploading and culling them yet. But I do still have some photos from my last trip, which is what these are. They’re related to a scene in my story “A Few MayContinue reading “Photo blog 96”
Shake Away These Constant Days
Ryan Werner, who is great at titles, has a new book coming out from the press I work for, Jersey Devil Press, who are great at being awesome. Shake Away These Constant Days officially releases one month from today, on September 25, so for the next 30 days, Ryan and JDP are doing some thingsContinue reading “Shake Away These Constant Days”
A Writer’s Notebook: response to Junichiro Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”
This is an old crib from a class assignment. I was in grad school taking a creative nonfiction workshop (which, this fall, I will be teaching myself, so hey, progress!), and I’d missed a day. (I forget why.) To make up for the missed class discussion, I had to write this response to an essay,Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: response to Junichiro Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows””
Photo blog 95
I’m in Texas the next two weeks, and while I’m here, I thought I’d drive around some of my old haunts and photograph places that turn up in my Texas fiction. I did a little of that when I was last in Texas, back in April 2012. That’s when I took these photos. They relateContinue reading “Photo blog 95”
New publication
Here I am on vacation, with the full intent to take a break from the Internet and relax for a bit. Sure, I’m checking email, just in case something important comes up, but otherwise, I’m unplugging. And today — my first real day off — I get an email with news of a new publication!Continue reading “New publication”
On chapbooks
So, last week, as I was posting here looking for a title for my new chapbook, I was also trawling Facebook for title ideas and a friend of mine asked what a chapbook even was. She even apologized for being “just too lazy to Google it.” Which was totally cool with me — we’ve allContinue reading “On chapbooks”
I’m the Story Star of the Day!
How fantastic is this! A long while ago, I posted my whimsical little children’s story “The Escutcheon Plates Between Us” at StoryStar.com, and today, over on their Facebook, they’ve named me their Story Star of the Day! Just because it’s my birthday! (And, okay, maybe because the story is good, too.) I’m just thrilled toContinue reading “I’m the Story Star of the Day!”
Sharpening pencils
Remember pencils? Not mechanical ones — wooden yellow #2 pencils. School pencils. Remember sometimes in school you would start feeling restless, and you’d just want to get up and move around a little? It’s not that the lessons were boring (sometimes they were) or that your brain had shut off (a lot of times itContinue reading “Sharpening pencils”
[Insert title here]
So, I’m wrapping up a new chapbook this week. The collection of ten stories, about half of them flash fiction or very short stories, deal with characters isolated from lovers or from themselves; some of them seek companionship in violence or in dead bodies, others lock themselves away until forced out into the light ofContinue reading “[Insert title here]”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 