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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Blue Gilliand over at Dark Scribe Magazine recently posted an interview with me, moi, yours truly. Thanks Blue!
Chaos
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Chaos is coming! Check out 100 % fantabulicious interview with the authors on Omnivoracious here.
We're running a give-away to promote Chaos. Here's the details:
Are You An Agent of Chaos?
Have you ever struck a blow for anarchy? Done something surreal just because it felt good and they couldn't stop you? Crossed the border just to say you had? Stuck your gum somewhere you shouldn't've? Been chased across countries while trying to remember who you are? Okay, so that last one is the novel "Chaos" by the hot Dutch writing couple Escober, but you get the point. Tell us about the biggest thing you ever done to spread "chaos" and we'll enter you in a drawing for a one-of-a-kind gift pack featuring our new book "Chaos", plus:
A military issue map bag containing:
(1) compass with sighting mirror
(1) copy of the U.S. Army's Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Ops field guide
(1) beret
(1) grenade (deactivated - you think we're crazy?)
(1) pair of leather bootlaces
(1) camouflage T-shirt, suitable for disappearing without a trace
Send your story of complete chaos to deepeight@live.com before June 30, 2009 to enter.
Exit Vector, Underland's Third WovelMonday, June 1, 2009
After much anticipation, we're ready to announce:
A WOVEL FROM UNDERLAND PRESS
BY SIMON DRAX
START DATE: JUNE 22, 2009
Mori Kim Marr’s personal force-field of drugs and drink has worn thin: she’s a burned-out teenager in a burned-out world, an Earth wracked by wars and rumors of wars, plagues and disasters, the hopelessness of every human heart. Mori couldn’t care less; just bring her the next fix, please. But when an artificial woman from the 19th century and a boy with psionic powers wander into the smoke and squalor of Mori’s favorite watering hole, gore-drenched violence and city-wide destruction erupts, catapulting Mori and her new-found “friends” into the thick of a battle that began long ago, a war that has raged since before the dawn of civilization, a blood-feud fought and overseen by the sole-survivor of an ancient, pre-human race: Trista Ska Shearn, last of the Cantarans. Trista has been waiting 65,000 thousand years for this, the final battle; she has waited millennia for the glum, sallow teenager, Mori Kim Marr. For Mori is . . . the Exit Vector.
ABOUT SIMON
DRAX:
SIMON DRAX was born in Gloomy, Massachusetts in 1965. He began the serious pursuit of writing fiction at 14. Drax has worked as a typesetter, graphic artist, bouncer, steel cutter, counselor to severely handicapped children, building supervisor, film critic, and art director. His stories and essays have been published in The Quarterly, Bonesaw, Midnight Zoo, Fever, After Hours, and VideoScope. His novel, A Very Fast Descent into Hell, will be published in 2010 by Underland Press.
Read Drax's free short story here.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Or this, from Simon Drax, a new Underland author.
His TOP 12 REASONS FOR BEING LATE
1. My heat was shut off so I had to stay home to keep my snake warm.
2. My husband thinks it's funny to hide my car keys before he goes to work.
3. I walked into a spider web on the way out the door and couldn't find the spider, so I had to go inside and shower again.
4. I got locked in my trunk by my son.
5. My left turn signal was out so I had to make all right turns to get to work.
6. A gurney fell out of an ambulance and delayed traffic.
7. I was attacked by a raccoon and had to stop by the hospital to make sure it wasn't rabid.
8. I feel like I'm in everyone's way if I show up on time.
9. My father didn't wake me up.
10. A groundhog bit my bike tire and made it flat.
11. My driveway washed away in the rain last night.
12. I had to go to bingo.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Hi Guys--
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not cleaning my room, I'm sorry for leaving the milk out, I'm sorry for waiting to change the oil on my car. Most of all, I'm sorry for not updating the blog.
Why have I failed so utterly? Chalk it up to my learning curve.
This is my first blog. I write it using the backend programming of the Underland site. In February, Jeff VanderMeer asked me to guest blog for him. He powered his blog with WordPress. I used WordPress for a week, and I was absolutely hooked.
So I'm updating this blog. We're migrating over to a WordPress powered site. But not now. In a month or so.
In the meantime, I'll eat crow. I'm sorry. I really, really am.
Victoria
Jeff VanderMeer's BlogMonday, February 2, 2009
I'm guest blogging at Jeff VanderMeer's site for the next two weeks. My plan is to do a post a day, which is more than I've done here. Click here to go to the site. I'm loving the WordPress backend. It's fun to work with. Much easier to do photos...
Talking about photos, a friend sent this to me recently. That's me, in the air. My friend and I were practicing tango lifts, which is so so so not done in traditional tango. But, being both swing dancers, we wanted to have fun. This was the result.
