I can’t believe I’m about to do this, but here it is: I’ll be participating in NaNoWriMo again this year. My trepidation is not for lack of interest — I love NaNoWriMo. My first outing resulted in the first draft of my novel Hagridden, which in turn led to my Oregon Literary Fellowship and aContinue reading “National (I don’t have time for) Novel Writing Month”
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New publication
I have a new story online today, gang. It’s called “Please Know Our Loving Thoughts Embrace You,” and it’s a love story, a classic romantic tale of boy-meets-corpse. No, seriously. And before you all start frothing at the mouth in Walking Dead glee, no, it’s not a zombie story. And no, you more twisted horrorContinue reading “New publication”
Words everywhere
What a week in literature! This past Tuesday, my wife and I went to see Salman Rushdie speak as the inaugural writer in this year’s Portland Arts & Lectures series. I’ve heard him on the radio several times and I’ve enjoyed his appearances on The Daily Show, so I knew the guy was not onlyContinue reading “Words everywhere”
I’m notable!
Several weeks ago, I announced here on the blog that Nathaniel Tower and the other excellent folks at Bartleby Snopes had nominated my story, “Lightning My Pilot,” for the storySouth Million Writers Award. (Actually, the story got nominated twice — my wife got there first, with a reader nomination.) Today I got an email from theContinue reading “I’m notable!”
New publication
I’m an ingredient in a drink, y’all! As of today, my story “Have Love, Will Hurt” appears in the August/September print issue of The Rusty Nail, which is both my father’s favorite cocktail and a kick-ass literary magazine. This story is one of the fun ones, too. Not because of the content (a guy falls in love with aContinue reading “New publication”
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”
This week in reading and writing on the Interwebs
I’ve been reading a ton of little articles and blog posts about writing the past couple of weeks, to the point that my browser was getting sluggish from all the tabs I had open because I wanted to revisit articles. Not all of them are recent, and only a handful were ultimately of any use.Continue reading “This week in reading and writing on the Interwebs”
New publication
I have a new story online today, folks. This one’s one of the sentimental ones, a bit of a boyhood romp. (I took a break from the killings and the loneliness and the cannibalism. But don’t worry, I’ll get back to that soon enough!) So if you feel like reliving some version of someone’s childhood,Continue reading “New publication”
March is the month of fiction
So, it’s been a whirlwind month this March. I have had five different stories published in the last four weeks, and two more coming out very shortly. So I thought, just so nothing gets lost in all the posts titled “New publication,” that I would collect March’s stories here in one post. “You Always.” Quickly AContinue reading “March is the month of fiction”
New publication
Do not adjust your browser. This is not an echo: I do, indeed, have yet another story out this month. And this time it’s not just a story: “Potato” is actually the first chapter of my novella, In the Pulse There Lies Conviction, up now at The Writing Disorder. I’m kind of in love withContinue reading “New publication”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 