I’ve spent the spring adapting stories I began writing almost a decade ago into a novel. The stories all had to do somehow with a character I called Julia Davenport. It’s been quite an interesting task converting short stories into […]
Review Redux: Implosions of America
A short five-star book review from El Dink The UK EBook Magazine Reviewer: Barry Purcell Implosions of America: Nine Stories by David Biddle ★★★★★ This book is nine short stories full of desperate, confused middle-aged men who want to have sex […]
When Books and Social Networks Mate
The share of the book market attributable to self-published books is not an easy number to track down. But a lot of folks with skin in the game feel data like this is pretty important now that the indie publishing […]
What Can Bookstores Do for Writers? Indie + Indie = LOVE?
My most recent “Talking Indies” column is about independent bookstores and whether their interests mesh with promoting indie authors. The piece is called “Why Bookstores Aren’t Helping Indie Authors—Yet.” You can read it in the Spring Edition of Talking Writing […]
Notes on the Heart of Darkness: Ex-Urban Wildernesses
When someone speaks knowingly of a heart of darkness somewhere, understand that they don’t realize this heart is only an opening or an entrance into something that is hard to understand. Inside a real heart of darkness there are dimensions. […]
The Physicalism of Hallucinations | Psychedelic Press UK
“So here we have the case that pathological people can be experiencing parts of reality in ‘high-definition’ compared to that of ‘normal’ people or, in other words, an experience of the heightened awareness of certain areas within the sensory stimuli […]
PsyPress UK Literary Review: Beyond the Will of God
My psychedelic novel, Beyond the Will of God, was reviewed by the Psychedelic Press UK — a book review site that does exactly what you’d think it does. Here’s a snippet from the review: “Very few novels come across the review desk of […]
“The Ass Hole Club” : an excerpt from a novel-in-progress
This excerpt is getting a major facelift today. It will self-destruct into a few truncated sample paragraphs very soon, so read up now. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section… He discovers two bananas, soft to the […]
