My short story “Hell on Wheels,” which appeared in Maxim Jakubowski’s The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4Xtra (the re-branded BBC Radio 7) on November 12th 2011 as part of their Pulp Fiction series. It will be broadcast online, but won’t be podcast — so if you want to [...]
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Posted 28 September 2011
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Tagged: bbc, crime fiction, erotic crime fiction, erotic crime story, hard-boiled, hardboiled, maxim jakubowski, mystery, noir, noirotica, radio, Thomas S. Roche
There are many people who think I still live in San Francisco — which is not true; I moved to Sacramento in 2009 but have in fact not lived in San Francisco since 2004. After that it was briefly L.A., New Orleans, Berkeley, Vallejo, then Oakland for an extended stay, and finally right here in [...]
http://youtu.be/TRQ4wKLfYbc The great science fiction writer Roger Zelazny was an amazing reader. A few years ago, with some effort, I tracked down an audio cassette of him doing a wonderful reading of his novel The Courts of Chaos, the last of the first Amber series and about the only cassette in that series I [...]
I’ll be reading at Litquake’s LitCrawl in some very good company, October 15 at Borderlands Books in San Francisco. If you’ve never done LitCrawl, it’s not to be missed. Garton and Kadrey are legendary favorites of mine, and I’m looking forward to my first time hearing Naamen Tilahun read. What’s more, if you kick back [...]
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Posted 26 September 2011
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Tagged: Borderlands Books, Borderlands Cafe, Events, Events, Fiction, Kirsten Imani Kasai, LitCrawl, LitCrawl San Francisco, Litquake, Live Readings, Mira Grant, Naamen Tilahun, Ray Garton, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Steven R. Boyett, Tim Pratt
The 5,000-ish word “St. John of the Throwdown” is set in the zombie-infested world of my debut novel The Panama Laugh, and is available only as an audio download — free! — with Violet Blue reading, on Violet’s podcast Open Source Sex. In it, a homeless teen sleeping on the beach in San Francisco wakes [...]
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Posted 26 September 2011
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Tagged: Audio, Audiobook, Free, Horror, Night Shade Books, Open Source Sex, Panama Laugh, Podcast, Story, Thomas Roche, Thomas S. Roche, Violet Blue, Zombies
Just got a couple copies of Z: Zombie Stories, a YA anthology featuring my 10,000-word novella “Deepwater Miracle,” my first published work of young adult fiction. “Deepwater Miracle” is Set in the world of my novel The Panama Laugh and features two teen refugees trying to reach Texas from Costa Rica, and encountering plenty of [...]
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Posted 26 September 2011
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Tagged: Apocalypse, Boating, Costa Rica, Jeremy Lassen, Latin America, Maritime, Night Shade Books, Panama Laugh, Texas, Thomas Roche, Thomas S. Roche, Z: Zombie Stories, Zombie, Zombies
http://youtu.be/kLVV7e2FGpg With no disrespect intended to my many French acquaintances over the years… and the many more French writers, artists, and musicians I so greatly admire… I cannot refrain from laughing my ass off every time I watch raucous Irish comedian Dylan Moran holding forth on the French with hilarious and Izzard-esque stereotype-fu. [...]
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