by ed. Pela Via
See also:
"Take Arms Against a Sea" by Mark Jaskowski
Jeremy Robert Johnson is the Bizarro author of the cult hit Angel Dust Apocalypse, the Stoker Nominated novel Siren Promised (w/Alan M. Clark), and the end-of-the-world freak-out Extinction Journals. His fiction has been acclaimed by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. In 2008 he worked with The Mars Volta to tell the story behind their Grammy Winning album. In 2010 he spoke about weirdness and metaphor as a survival tool at the Fractal 10 conference in Medellin, Colombia. Jeremy runs Bizarro imprint Swallowdown Press and is working on a host of new books.
See also:
"Laws of Virulence" by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Recommended Reading
Stephen Graham Jones started writing in 1990, in an emergency room. Ten years later, his first novel came out, and, since then, there have been six more, and two collections. He has also had some hundred and thirty stories published, anthologized, and included in annuals and textbooks. And he still finds himself in the emergency room more than he really planned. Jones teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has been a member of The Velvet since 2005. More at www.demontheory.net.
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"The Road Lester Took" by Stephen Graham Jones
Foreword by Steve Erickson
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
The Return of Independence by Phil Jourdan
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Transcript: Stephen Graham Jones
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Recommended Reading
Phil Jourdan is a writer, musician and translator from Portugal. He is the founder of the band Paris and the Hiltons, and author of the blog www.pajourdan.com.
See also:
Warmed and Bound: Up Close by Phil Jourdan
Interview with Pela Via by Phil Jourdan
Charles King is a writer, and photographer. His writing and photographs take him to places other people might not go, and into the lives of people most people would never talk to. The photographs you see here were all taken around Oregon.
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Bonus Content (photo)
The Fuse (photo)
Recommended Reading (photo)
Nik Korpon is the author of the novel Stay God and the noir novellas Old Ghosts and By the Nails of the Warpriest. His stories have ruined the reputation of Out of the Gutter, Do Some Damage, 3:AM and Everyday Genius, among others. He is a fiction editor for Rotten Leaves Magazine, a book reviewer and a co-host of Last Sunday, Last Rites, a monthly reading series in Baltimore, MD. He received a master’s degree in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College in London, England, and now lives in Baltimore. Give him danger, little stranger, at www.nikkorpon.com
See also:
"This Will All End Well" by Nik Korpon
Interviews with Booked Podcast
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Recommended Reading
Jesse Lawrence spent a fair portion of his youth reveling in the A to Zs of libraries, record stores and video shops. You can find him, momentarily, at Outsider Writers Collective and, always, in the halls of The Velvet.
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Afterword by Jesse Lawrence
The Velvet
Gary Paul Libero has been bald since 1997. He is a technology professional living in Middlesex County, Connecticut, with his wife and two toddlers. His short fiction can also be read at Nefarious Muse. He hopes to have a novel completed before his kids are able to read.
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"Little Deaths" by Gary Paul Libero
Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil’s Territory, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov. His recent work appears in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Plots with Guns, and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2008, Surreal South, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. Random House named Kyle one of the “Best New Voices of 2006,” and The Columbus Dispatch named him one of their “20 Under 30 Artists to Watch” in 2007. Visit www.kyleminor.com.
See also:
"They Take You" by Kyle Minor
Recommended Reading
Livius Nedin makes up one half of Booked, a podcast dedicated to reviewing fiction, interviewing authors and general book talk. He’s found he’d rather read than write since he prefers to be critical over being criticized.
See also:
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Interview Transcript: Craig Clevenger
Interview Transcript: Brian Evenson
Interview Transcript: Stephen Graham Jones
Interview Transcript: Pela Via
Booked Podcast
Doc O’Donnell is a rock ’n’ roll dropout who writes dirty noir from a cramped apartment in Newcastle, Australia. To pay for the bills and booze he looks after the elderly, soaking up their tales. His work has dirtied the pages and screens of Crime Factory, Pulp Metal Magazine, Short, Fast, and Deadly, Nefarious Muse, and Thunderdome. Doc is the editor of www.dirtynoir.com, a crime-noir webzine. He can be contacted at: www.docodonnell.com
See also:
"If You Love Me" by Doc O’Donnell
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Acknowledgments
Robb Olson co-hosts Booked, an internationally renowned podcast of book reviews, author interviews, and other book related discussion. Outside of Booked, Robb is a persistent dabbler in creative projects including indie zine publishing, writing, photography, and anything else that creates a venue to connect and share.
See also:
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Interview Transcript: Craig Clevenger
Interview Transcript: Brian Evenson
Interview Transcript: Stephen Graham Jones
Interview Transcript: Pela Via
Booked Podcast
J David Osborne is the author of the Lynchian gulag-escape novel By the Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends. His second novel, Low Down Death Right Easy, is due out this winter from Swallowdown Press. He lives in Oklahoma with his dog.
See also:
"Three Theories on the Murder of John Wily" by J David Osborne
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Recommended Reading
Rob Parker currently lives in Waterloo, Ontario. He has his MA in English & Film Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University and secretly hopes that one day serious men in dark suits on the university payroll will speak in quiet, horrified whispers about the monster they created.
See also:
"We Sing the Bawdy Electric" by Rob Parker
Bob Pastorella lives in Southeast Texas. He’s published with Outsider Writers Collective, Thunderdome, Nefarious Muse, Troubadour 21, and his short story “To Watch Is Madness” is featured in The Zombist: Undead Western Tales Anthology. He is currently working on a vampire/noir novel. You can visit Bob at www.bobpastorella.com.
See also:
"Practice" by Bob Pastorella
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Gavin Pate is the author of the novel The Way to Get Here (Bootstrap), and his short stories can be found in places like The Collagist, Barrelhouse, The Southeast Review, and Dogmatika, among others. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan College, and lately, in the lengthening days of the impending summer, he has been steadily working on what’s now only known to him as The Next Book.
See also:
"All the Acid in the World" by Gavin Pate
Recommended Reading
Cameron Pierce is the author of The Pickle
d Apocalypse of Pancake Island, Lost in Cat Brain Land, Ass Goblins of Auschwitz, and Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden. His fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple), The Nervous Breakdown, Verbicide, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, The Pedestal Magazine, Nemonymous, The Dream People, Kill Author, Everyday Genius, and other publications. Cameron also runs Lazy Fascist Press. Visit him online at meatmagick.wordpress.com and lazyfascist.com.
See also:
"Crazy Love" by Cameron Pierce
Recommended Reading
Logan Chance Rapp is an administrator for The Velvet, and a writer in North Hollywood, CA. He graduated from California State University Fresno with a degree in Mass Communications / Journalism. When asked for this bio, he groaned to himself, muttered “fine” in that way where you just know he isn’t “fine,” but wrote the bio anyway, forgetting that the lovely editor who asked him for it is going to read this.
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Introduction by Logan Rapp
The Fuse
The Velvet
Edward J Rathke is an adventurous dandy wandering space and time. More of his life and words may be found at edwardjrathke.wordpress.com.
See also:
"The Tree of Life" by Edward J Rathke
Interviews with Booked Podcast
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Caleb J Ross has been published widely, both online and in print. He graduated with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Creative Writing from Emporia State University. He is the author of the story chapbook Charactered Pieces: Stories, the novels Stranger Will and I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin, and the forthcoming novella As a Machine and Parts. Visit his official page at: calebjross.com. Twitter: @calebjross and on Facebook: facebook.com/rosscaleb.
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"Click-Clack" by Caleb J Ross
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Recommended Reading
Bradley Sands is the editor of Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens and the author of Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You, and My Heart Said No, But Camera Crew Said Yes! His contribution to this anthology is the first chapter of a forthcoming novel called TV Snorted My Brain.
See also:
"Soccer Moms and Pro Wrestler Dads" by Bradley Sands
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Recommended Reading
Axel Taiari is a French writer, born in Paris in 1984. He studied Screenwriting and Modern Literature. After an endless string of shit jobs, he quit everything to focus on writing. His work has appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Dogmatika, 3:AM Magazine, No Colony, and 365tomorrows. He is also the creator and co-editor of the literary journal Rotten Leaves. He has recently finished a noir science-fiction novel and is now trying to sell his soul to the devil. Read more at www.axeltaiari.com and www.rottenleaves.com. You can also stalk him on Twitter @axeltaiari.
See also:
"Death Juggler" by Axel Taiari
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Recommended Reading
Richard Thomas was the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest at ChiZine. He has published dozens of stories online and in print, including the Shivers VI anthology, with Stephen King and Peter Straub, Murky Depths, PANK, Pear Noir!, Word Riot, 3:AM Magazine, Dogmatika, Vain and Opium. His debut novel, Transubstantiate, was released in July of 2010. He also writes book reviews at The Nervous Breakdown. www.whatdoesnotkillme.com.
See also:
"Say Yes to Pleasure" by Richard Thomas
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Interviews with Booked Podcast
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
The Fuse
Recommended Reading
(photo: John Geiger)
Brandon Tietz studied Illustration and Literature at the University of Kansas and deejayed under the stage name Agent Green while in college. Tietz’s familiarity with nightlife and his fascination with the socialite lifestyle led him to write Out of Touch, a transgressive take on the coming-of-age story in which the main character feels no physical sensation. In 2009, Tietz joined the Chuck Palahniuk Writers’ Workshop, where he now serves as one of the moderators. He’s currently working on a new book called Vanity, a themed novel-in-stories.
See also:
"Fading Glory" by Brandon Tietz
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Recommended Reading
Gayle Towell is a fiction writer living in Hillsboro, Oregon, with her husband and three children. Author of Moron and X, she is currently working on her second novel, a quasi-sequel with the working title Seized.
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"Seed" by Gayle Towell
Paul Tremblay is the author of the weirdboiled novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, the short story collection In the Mean Time, and the novella The Harlequin and the Train. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales and Year’s Best American Fantasy 3, with stories due to appear in Cape Cod Noir and Supernatural Noir. He’s the co-editor of the anthologies Fantasy, Bandersnatch, Phantom, and Creatures. He still has no uvula and lives somewhere south of Boston with his wife and two kids.
See also:
"Chance the Dick" by Paul G Tremblay
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Recommended Reading
(photo: Michael J Maloney)
Pela Via writes from various places along the US west coast. She has been published here and there, with new work forthcoming in Rotten Leaves and the Thunderdome California-themed anthology In Search of a City. She creates a new website every New Year’s Eve at www.PelaVia.com.
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"Touch" by Pela Via
Foreword by Steve Erickson
Acknowledgments
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Warmed and Bound: Up Close by Phil Jourdan
Interview with Pela Via by Phil Jourdan
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book by Jay Slayton-Joslin
Interviews with Booked Podcast
Transcript: Pela Via
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(photo: Chelsea Kyle)
Craig Wallwork lives in West Yorkshire, England, with his wife and daughter. After leaving Art College he studied to be a filmmaker before becoming a full-time editor for nine years. In his spare time he writes short stories and is working on his fourth novel. His fiction has appeared in various anthologies, journals and magazines. Follow his progress via his website: craigwallwork.blogspot.com.
See also:
"Bruised Flesh" by Craig Wallwork
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
Nic Young lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He has packed supermarket shelves in Edinburgh, slept in the open Sahara desert, and broken an inordinate number of bones. He has been writing software since 2005, and stories since 2010. Visit him at www.nicyoung.net.
See also:
"My German Daughter" by Nic Young
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book
(photo: Lillith Leda)
Booked is a weekly podcast where two avid readers review and discuss books, conduct author interviews, and make recommendations for good books they’ve read.
“Our goal is to deliver book reviews by everyday readers, for everyday readers. Diverse: We strive to strike a balance between reviewing books with large readership, and independent or small press books that don’t benefit from the publicity that comes with a large publishing house. Fresh and New: We review timely books. We’re always looking for recent or soon-to-be released books to review. We consider books of any genre a possible review – as long
as our listeners can find and buy them. Interaction and Community: In addition to reviews, we do author interview episodes, as well as open format episodes where we discuss topics our listeners suggest online. Using social media, we do book giveaways and share interesting book-related articles and discussions.”
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Interviews with Booked Podcast
Interview Transcript: Craig Clevenger
Interview Transcript: Brian Evenson
Interview Transcript: Stephen Graham Jones
Interview Transcript: Pela Via
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Livius Nedin
Robb Olson
What once began as a fan community for authors Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger and Stephen Graham Jones has since become a hub for neo noir fiction writers and readers, many of whom have gone on to publish their own literary fiction novels.
We are The Velvet, an incubator for new writers.
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Foreword by Steve Erickson
Introduction by Logan Rapp
Afterword by Jesse Lawrence
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Warmed and Bound: Up Close by Phil Jourdan
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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