Roundup
This and That
1. If you like zombies, and really, who doesn’t, check out Zombie Summer at xTx’s blog, where you will find zombie tales from many familiar writers.
2. Dark Sky Magazine is holding a chapbook contest. Each entry is only $5 which seems quite reasonable.
3. Necessary Fiction has launched a Writer in Residence program. This month, it is William Walsh who is posting these amazing fictions. Last month, was my month, and you can find writing from Giant contributors like Ryan Call, Amy McDaniel and Ken Baumann among others.
4. Janet Fitch offers Ten Rules for Writers.
5. Brevity Magazine asks if they should charge for submissions.
6. Our Island of Epidemics by Matthew Salesses is available for pre-order with gorgeous cover art by Luca DiPierro to be unveiled very soon.
7. Forthcoming from me, here, once I finish unpacking: two posts on sex, one on learning to love submissions, and a love letter to depressing literary fiction.
Tags: Chapbooks, Submissions, zombies
I’m psyched for #7.
Yes. Loving submissions is The Way. I’m so effing tired of people bitching about them.
How can literary fiction be rife with conflict and not be “depressing”? Are there any really good, ok great, literary novels/stories that are not somewhat depressing? How do you have good conflict without getting into the boo hoo depressing shit that “readers” like to beeyotch about?
Why is it you can have a piece of music whose operative emotion seems to be happiness or something of the sort, but it seems so often that literature (outside of maybe poetry) lacks that very emotion?
Or maybe it’s just the books I read, I don’t know. I kind of like depressing things. They make me happy, in a way.
Brevity. yes, charge $11.
you and me both, Hank, on the happy in a way part
Good question, too.
That Brevity thread got ri-damn-diculous.
I really like the Zombies. I’ve been listening to “Brief Candles” a lot lately.
I’m psyched for #7.
Yes. Loving submissions is The Way. I’m so effing tired of people bitching about them.
How can literary fiction be rife with conflict and not be “depressing”? Are there any really good, ok great, literary novels/stories that are not somewhat depressing? How do you have good conflict without getting into the boo hoo depressing shit that “readers” like to beeyotch about?
Why is it you can have a piece of music whose operative emotion seems to be happiness or something of the sort, but it seems so often that literature (outside of maybe poetry) lacks that very emotion?
Or maybe it’s just the books I read, I don’t know. I kind of like depressing things. They make me happy, in a way.
Brevity. yes, charge $11.
you and me both, Hank, on the happy in a way part
Good question, too.
That Brevity thread got ri-damn-diculous.
I really like the Zombies. I’ve been listening to “Brief Candles” a lot lately.