Hey, everyone.
Spring is sprung here in Portland. Allergies abound, we’re flocking the parks and rivers, the sidewalks thronged with all of us grinning idiots. It’s like Portland has collectively come out of our windowless basement apartment and stretched our arms towards the sun. Feels pretty awesome.
In the literary world, things are going great. Some nice movement on the novel, as well as a chorus of the usual rejections. Meanwhile, I’m plugging away at new short stories and I’m also starting to slowly kick around the idea – stay with me here – of another book. Still a ways...
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Hey, everyone.
The book is done. After many drafts and the sneaking insistence that I've lost all subjectivity on the matter, I wrapped it up after it's bajillionth edit. It's titled Smoke City, comes in at 91,000 words, and I'm going to start the process of submitting it to agents soon. It's exciting; if I could utilize the same tenacity I have for getting my fiction rejected to, say, jujitsu or kickboxing, I'd probably be a pretty fearsome dude. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it.
Meanwhile, it seems that spring really is springing. Cherry blossoms are blooming, pasty, sun-flinching people...
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Hey, everyone - My buddy Shahab of GC Records has put together a Kickstarter campaign to help get a film off the ground. They want to do a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1954 story "The Crystal Crypt." The cast and crew seem pretty rad - the guy who did the voiceacting for Ben 10 is even on board, so the kids in my class would be stoked.
Consider getting involved - they have some cool incentives available.
Tons more info in available here:
http://www.thinkspeak.org/how-to-help/
Thanks again,
Keith
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Hey, thanks for stopping by. I finally wrapped up the LP design for the BONEHOUSE/ TODOS CAERAN/ KADDISH/ POLINA record. You can look for various parts of it in the ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN section. I’m working with TODOS CAERAN again, this time on a split LP with TEL FYR. The bands and I have done some brainstorming regarding the visual aesthetic of this one, and I think this record is going to look pretty rad.
Meanwhile, I’ve wrapped up another edit on the as-yet-unnamed novel. 93,000 words. I’ll definitely be giving it another run-through or two, as I’d like to carve 10,000 words...
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I read about eighty books this year, toeing the line between novels and short story collections, with a few selections of non-fiction thrown in. Personally, given how many of them I read this year, I'm amazed that only one story collection actually made it onto the list. Anyway, the following are my favorite dozen books from this year. These are in no particular order.
FUN WITH PROBLEMS by Robert Stone (stories)
Awesome story collection by the author of 1975’s DOG SOLDIERS, a National Book Award winner. FUN WITH PROBLEMS contains one of my favorite short stories of the year, “The...
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