Editor’s note: The following tape is one of many confiscated from the locker of LP Deal in the back of the Fool’s Hip Bowling Alley in the Dakota Territories by Federal Agents during their investigation into the murder of tourists in the region. The publisher acquired the tapes through legal means and now has made transcripts of them available to the public so that more can be understood of the incident in question and the man who claims not to have been involved at a…

My third-ever self-interview, up now at Sea Minor.

First-ever self-interview? Above, under “FAQ.”

Second: in IRON HORSE LITERARY REVIEW a few issues ago.

Next: daily. Every time I find myself in “As seen on TV”-aisle of Walgreens, after which I’ll be asking myself “Did you REALLY think that was going to work like it did on the informercial?”

Answer: Yes, always. Still. Forever.…

up at HorrorNews, here. love their banner:

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Greogry Frye asks me many questions, and I answer and answer and answer, and mostly even don’t make so much stuff up. click here. also, in case you missed the It Came from Del Rio review: here.…

The goats of morning, I remember them well.

New interview over there. Click click.

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Author-type photos:
snaps. though these are all ancient, from sites and sites ago. fresher stuff’s likely on facebook.

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[ no ISBN yet, Steve, so no purchase point, no cover you can release, what am I supposed to do here, loser? ]

–you can post a thumb of the author photo, yeah?

[ yeah, whatever. I’m sure that’s exactly what everybody wants ]

–and, and I’ll kind of do a write-up that’s not a write up about the book, maybe?

from the back of the book :

it’s this dad, this dad on the lamb, hiding down in that old fugitive myth of Old Mexico, when he’s offere…

get all clicky . . . now.…

Over Caleb J. Ross’s AWP Blog. Here.…

not based on a true story

So I read more fiction than non-fiction. It’s a moral failing, I know: I prefer the make-believe. Too, though, I mean I write fiction. Makes sense to read it, yeah? Where else am I going to learn technique, cue into little narrative shuffles this or that writer pulled off, all that? To take it a little further, if I want to be part of the ‘dialogue’ of fiction, then I need to be listening to what the other writers are saying. But this starts …