My piece PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY has went live on Shotgun Honey this week. To my great pleasure, the piece was well received and even was my second story this year to feature in the Story365 challenge after UNDER THE GAZE OF SATURN. Thanks to Johnny Shaw and Patti Abbott for selecting my stories. But it's not the only cool thing that happened this week, involving Shotgun Honey. Peter Farris has published yesterday the second part of his DAY TRADERS stories, shorts inspired from Raymond Pettibon's art. Pettibon is a legendary American artist and was the art director of Black Flag's DIY publicity campaign. You can read the first part of THE DAY TRADERS here. Do it, it's really good. Also, Peter is releasing his first novel in May, LAST CALL FOR THE LIVING. I thought you might want to check it out.
I also wanted to mention, last week on THRILLERS, KILLERS n' CHILLERS (also known as TKnC), there was a scandal I wanted to address here. Richard Godwin's story BATTLE FOR THE LAUGHING CITY has been targeted by ill-intentioned fundamentalists that called it garbage because of its over-the-top violence and sexual content. It's the second time something like this happens at TKnC. The first time, the story was pulled for being ''offending'' but this time the editors stood strong and busted the offended user who posted under many aliases to give credibility to his point. I thought Richard's story was great. He has his own peculiar way of portraying extreme content. If you don't like what you read, don't give it your readership. It's the most effective thing you can do. Don't try and censor everybody, you will only end up making people angry. Richard also has a novel coming up soon, titled MR. GLAMOUR
Expect a leap in science-fiction in the next few weeks here as I will review Michael Offutt's debut novel SLIPSTREAM , which I started already and is pretty wild. I will give it priority as soon as I'm done with DOG SOLDIERS, so expect a review in the next two or three weeks. It's very good, but it's rather hard sci-fi. You can't leave your brain somewhere else reading this. But you know me, I can appreciate that. I will also review Beat To A Pulp Publishing's A RIP THROUGH TIME. As it's been hinted on Twitter, there is more of Simon Rip to come and honestly, Chad Eagleton and David Cranmer working together? I have to check this out.
Oh yeah...I sat through TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN Pt. 1 (or something along these lines) yesterday. To be honest, I heard the movie more than I watched it, because I was busy playing the slightly racist and oh-so-addictive TEMPLE RUN. Seriously, think the most frantic levels from Crash Bandicoot, rendered to you on your iPhone, with only goal is to get a high score. I might give you my opinions on BREAKING DAWN this week or I may not. You might expect it, but it was somewhere in between appalling and funny.
I have three stories that are supposed to come out in the next weeks or so. Keep an eye out for them too. I'll post links here, of course.
I have three stories that are supposed to come out in the next weeks or so. Keep an eye out for them too. I'll post links here, of course.
That is all for today.