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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | | 4:46 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 11:31 pm |
Stuff at Bizarro Con
Heading to Portland tomorrow for Bizarro Con. Here are the things with which I've been involved that are debuting there: (1) THE MAGAZINE OF BIZARRO FICTION #2, which contains my novella THE TRAVELING DILDO SALESMAN. (2) The first four New Bizarro Author Series books: (a) ROTTEN LITTLE ANIMALS by Kevin Shamel (b) SEX DUNGEON FOR SALE! by Patrick Wensink (c) CARNAGELAND by David W. Barbee (d) NAKED METAMORPHOSIS by Eric Mays Will write more after the convention... | | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | | 9:53 pm |
Happened when I was a child...
A long time ago, I thought these things swimming around in a bucket in my grandmother's yard were tadpoles. I loved them; thought they would grow into frogs. They were mosquito larvae... | | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | | 4:03 pm |
Radio Interview + Plane Ticket
I did a radio interview (Metal Crypt) almost two weeks ago, and now it's up on youtube ... all three parts of it. http://metalcrypt.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/kevin-donihe-interview/I give my take on Bizarro at about 7 minutes 20 seconds into Part One. (Note: Some naughty language is used, so, if you listen to it, listen where you can safely hear naughty language.) Also, I booked a plane ticket to Portland for Bizarro Con. Then I booked another one from San Jose (where the World Fantasy Convention will be held) back home. I get from Portland to San Jose via car with my publisher and a few other Bizarro writers. After World Fantasy, I plan to travel to Big Sur on a bus. | | Monday, July 6th, 2009 | | 3:02 pm |
YEAR TO DATE
So, the year is (over) half over. What have I done? Well, I finished WASHER MOUTH (67,000 words), went right into BARE BONE #11 work (the final issue), after which I started editing for the New Bizarro Author Series, a novella (or novella-sized collection) imprint for first-time bizarro writers. (FYI: In the last two months, I've received 38 pitches and 25 manuscripts. 5 have been accepted/edited.) Also, I must have a novella done for THE MAGAZINE OF BIZARRO FICTION by August 1st ... and then there's THE WALRI PROJECT antho for Afterbirth Books. | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 7:37 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | | 11:20 pm |
| | Monday, June 8th, 2009 | | 1:03 pm |
| | Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | | 12:33 am |
| | Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | | 3:42 pm |
FINAL Bare Bone pre-order (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
The final issue of the BARE BONE anthology series (#11) is now up for pre-order at the Raw Dog Screaming Press website: http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/bb11.htmlIt features fiction by Steve Rasnic Tem, Kris Saknussemm, Paul Finch, Cody Goodfellow, Kurt Newton, Ronald Damien Malfi, Gary McMahon, Gary Fry, Eric Shapiro, Ian Rogers, Jeffrey A. Stadt, Mark Patrick Lynch, Kek-W, Michael Kelly, Mitch Maraude and others. Poets include Michael Arnzen, Kendall Evans, Cameron Pierce, Forrest Armstrong, K.S. Hardy and Joel Curtis. I think the cover (artist = Carlton Mellick III) turned out very nice as well... | | Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | | 3:07 am |
DRAGONS WITH CANCER
DRAGONS WITH CANCER, an e-anthology edited by Bradley Sands and Mike Young, is now on-line. Each author has two featured tales, one realistic and the other unrealistic. My two short pieces: MULTIPLE MORNINGS and A LOATHSOME JOB. Other contributors = Blake Butler, Ray Fracalossy, Avital Gad Cykman, Sam Pink, Gina Ranalli, Sean Kilpatrick, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, and Anderson Prunty. Find it here: http://www.absurdistjournal.com/downloads.htmI have other news, too ... will report on it in a few days... | | Sunday, March 15th, 2009 | | 4:16 pm |
Quote + name for WASHER BOOK
Playing around on-line, I found a blog that quoted from my book, THE GREATEST FUCKING MOMENT IN SPORTS. It made me feel good. Here's the quote in question; it's the President speaking: "Fellow nations, please don't look down on Americans or America as a whole; you can't expect us not to break down, to break down and cry, if not scream and rend things, breaking the intact and annihilating the already broken; nor can we be expected not to put things in our mouths or other cavities that were never intended for such ingress, or not to run naked and screaming through the dark and sticky passageways of a night that will never end." -from The Greatest Fucking Moment in Sports by Kevin L. Donihe published in The Bizarro Starter Kit. Also, I think THE WASHER BOOK has a name now, and it's WASHER MOUTH: THE MAN WHO WAS A WASHING MACHINE. | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 3:47 pm |
Washer Book = Done
I called it at 3:24 PM. Of course, the publisher might want me to add or subtract a few things, and I'll have to go over the proof ... but there will be no other drafts, so yeah, it's done: May 31, 2008 - Feb. 12, 2009. | | Friday, January 30th, 2009 | | 4:30 pm |
WASHER BOOK = almost in bag
I've almost got the WASHER BOOK edits done. (Key word: "almost".) Been working on this book since May 31 ... feels like forever, but forever will be over soon (give or take a week). | | Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | | 11:43 pm |
hoka-meoka (or, it happened again)
It seems to happen every year. I drink a little too much of the communal egg nog and wake up in another state -- a different one each time -- with no memory of the night before but with exactly $45 and Greyhound ticket home, which I never recall purchasing. I get back home -- often times weeks, or months, later -- to find that everyone resents me for doing this thing I can't for the life of me recall doing, but which I must have done, because everyone says I've done it. Some even tell me they wished I'd stayed gone, that they liked it better when everyone thought I was dead. Sometimes the police gets involved... | | Friday, December 19th, 2008 | | 4:04 pm |
I'm back?
Seems I've been gone for a while. Back now. (I think.) Did the Bizarro Convention in Portland, OR. Also went to Seattle, Wenatchee, and up Lake Chelan in WA. Some pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25697513@N08/ (non-con part of the trip) http://s490.photobucket.com/albums/rr267/kldonihe/ (mostly con part of the trip, but no pictures from the ballroom) To reach Portland, I flew in an airplane for the first time. (I've been to 40 states and Canada and Mexico, but always by bus, train, or some combination of the two. An airplane ticket to Portland, however, was cheaper than a Greyhound ticket. Very weird.) At any rate, I found take-off to be exhilarating. I want to take-off every day now. >taking-off< Oh yeah ... I finished THE WASHER BOOK (for the most part). THE WALRI PROJECT is almost in the bag, too. More soon... | | Friday, October 3rd, 2008 | | 2:38 pm |
BB #10 YBFH HM
Just found out that stories in BARE BONE #10 from Robert Dunbar, Paul Finch, and Jeremy Shipp received Honorable Mentions in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 21. | | Saturday, September 27th, 2008 | | 4:01 pm |
Progress Indicator
Got a total of 59,561 washer words at the moment, which means I'll break 60,000 tomorrow, at the very latest. What's left to do: *Write the last Dark Washer scene. *Deskeletonize the final scene and write most of the climax. *Write two "Laundromat Interludes" that need to be placed strategically. *Read the whole thing over again and get rid of worst offending typos and assorted stupid stuff. *Send the file of the working draft to Eraserhead. Okay, that's all for now. Back to work I go ... must finish at least two weeks before the Bizarro Con in Portland. | | Sunday, September 21st, 2008 | | 3:08 am |
Grilled cheese sandwich to the face
Excerpt from the first draft of "The Washer Book" (working non-title), chosen by scrolling through the file, then stopping randomly: The door whooshed again. Samuel's gaze remained on the waitress as she brought out his sandwich and placed it on the table. She looked at him then, bottom lip quivering slightly. "Nice, nice." Samuel turned the sandwich upside down. "Not nice!" He jumped up from the table, plate in hand, and ground it and the sandwich into her face. "But it had grill marks," she blubbered, hot cheese sliding down her cheek. "Only on the front!" He ground it in a second time. "Not on the back!" | | 2:32 am |
The page I’m working on now...
Page I'm currently working on, from the first draft of The Washer Book (working non-title): "I didn't hear you flush!" Roy remembered neatly manicured fingers pulling down a little silver lever in a commercial. The toilet he'd just used had a little lever on it, too. Though gold, it probably served the same purpose. "Oh, sorry," he said. "That's one thing I won't abide, someone who refuses to flush!" He shook a finger at him. "That, and a freak who won't let me watch him shit!" "I'll go back and—" "No, I'll have the maid do it later. Return to position! I'm not even half finished with the script!" Samuel strapped him back in, tying knots tighter and pulling straps harder this time, making muscles and tendons really scream. For the next four hours, Roy did nothing but watch the clock. After that, Samuel took a quick shot of booze, put down the script, and released his freaks from their menagerie and Roy from his harness. "Time for my hair treatment," he said. * The room Roy found himself in next, he hadn't seen before. It looked like a coliseum in miniature. At first, he thought a bunch of people were watching him from the audience, but then realized they were just plastic dummies. He was initially relieved, before the host of sightless eyes started to grate at his nerves. "Get in a circle, boys," Samuel shouted, "buck naked!" Everyone obeyed, as they obviously knew the drill. Roy, however, just watched. "It's very simple," Samuel said. "In fact, it should come naturally to you. All I want you to do is stand in a pre-described location and whack it over my head." |
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