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    Saturday, July 31st, 2010
    2:30 pm
    Podcast interview + review
    http://www.alittledead.com/2010/07/episode-60-lord-of-rings-fellowship-of.html

    That's the link to the podcast with the HOUSE OF HOUSES review + Kevin interview. The direct link is within the title/header.

    I haven't even listened yet...
    Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
    10:56 am
    11 Honorable Mentions for BARE BONE #11
    Just found out. 11 Honorable Mentions from Datlow's YEAR'S BEST HORROR for BARE BONE #11 (11 for 11). Congrats to Steve Rasnic Tem, Paul Finch, Cody Goodfellow, Ronald Damien Malfi, Gary McMahon, Mark Patrick Lynch, Gary Fry, Michael Kelly, Kek-W, J. David Osborne, and Mark Howard Jones.
    Sunday, April 11th, 2010
    12:42 am
    Complete
    First draft of new novella = complete.

    (Hmmm ... just noticed this was my first entry of the year.)
    Thursday, November 5th, 2009
    4:46 pm
    HOUSE OF HOUSES and the Wonderland Award
    Seems HOUSE OF HOUSES won the Wonderland Award (which was voted on by the attendees of Bizarro Con) for Best Bizarro Novel of 2008. Here's a link to the Amazon page. See whether or not everyone is crazy, if you're so inclined: http://www.amazon.com/House-Houses-Kevin-L-Donihe/dp/1933929707/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257457061&sr=1-1
    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
    The Dark Washer?
    If you've read WASHER MOUTH, you know The Dark Washer. Could this be him? Is the Great Changeover imminent?

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/2517155/Scary-washing-machine-fetches-over-5000
    Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
    11:20 pm
    First on-line WASHER MOUTH review + some stuff
    From the livejournal of THE SECRET LIFE OF MR NIHIL & MRS RAT.

    Also, I've been quite busy with NBAS (New Bizarro Author Series) submissions as of late. Went right into them after finishing BARE BONE #11 work, which I went right into after completing WASHER MOUTH.

    2009 has been the busiest year to date. Lots of going right into various and sundry things...
    Monday, June 8th, 2009
    1:03 pm
    Abandoned Mental Health Institute
    I spent Sunday mucking around inside an abandoned mental health institute. Enjoyable, but smelly...
    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.html

    It 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.htm

    I 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.
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