I’m celebrating Halloween by putting all my old zombie stories up in the Kindle store. “Viva Las Vegas” is Zombie Stories #1. When the zombocalypse hits, a Mob hit man who made the mistake of working “one last job” and got his fiancee killed must cruise the broken streets of Vegas looking for her. Buy [...]
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Posted 30 October 2011
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Crime Noir § Halloween § Horror § Kindle Store § The Panama Laugh
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Tagged: Apocalypse, Assassin, EBook, Hit Man, Horror, Kindle Store, Mafia, Mob, Monsters, Organized Crime, Viva Las Vegas, Zombie, Zombie Apocalypse
Given the stunning, overwhelming, “Tell-Scorsese-he-can-wait” success of my first novel, noir-themed zombie apocalypse The Panama Laugh (of which there are extremely few copies left — extremely few! — so you’d better buy it right now or they might run out), people keep asking me, they say, “Rosanne Rosanna-Danna, what other a-zombie stories have you a-written?” [...]
I’ll cut Regina Weinreich a huge amount of slack for producing and directing a documentary on one of my favorite writers of all times: Paul Bowles. (This is a documentary that I have not seen, incidentally…at least not that I can recall — Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider.) But I have no idea what she [...]
When I was a kid, I never really cared what I was for Halloween, as long as it got to kill people. More often than not, I dressed up as the characters I thought were having a way more exciting life than me: guys in the Army. Yeah, I know (now) that guys in the [...]
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Posted 28 October 2011
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Blogging § Politics
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Tagged: Halloween, Law Enforcement, Monsters, Night Bazaar, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Oakland Protests, Occupy Sacramento, occupy wall street, Police Action, politics, Protest, Zombies
The smoking is what everyone’s getting worked up about. But there are actually several weird things about this Herman Cain campaign ad: 1) First is how confused Herman Cain’s chief of staff, Mark Block, seems about his lines. He seems to pause in odd places. Block is chief of staff to a guy running for [...]
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Posted 25 October 2011
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Politics § Sex
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Tagged: 2012 election, advertising, big tobacco, cigarette, herman cain, julie simone, mark block, politics, presidential election, smoking, smoking fetish, tobacco
From my new article in Tiny Nibbles: Flip-flopper Mitt Romney demonstrates not only that he’s confused on the abortion issue, but on how babies are made; Rachel Maddow helps him sort it out. But all major Republican candidates advocate a Constitutional Amendment that would eliminate all hormonal contraception, including The Pill. Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, [...]
I was asked to participate in a recent Mind Meld over at the science fiction blog SF Signal. The question was “What book did you last read that you would recommend to a friend.” I love the answers — it’s always great hearing what other readers are enjoying. In keeping with my recent Steampunk reading [...]
Forty-year-old German yachtsman Stefan Ramin disappeared in September while on Nuka Hiva, a remote tropical island in French Polynesia. After charred bones and teeth were found on the island, the press is awash with reports that Ramin was eaten by cannibals. Survival International, the chief global advocacy group for tribal peoples, says the accusation is [...]
This week we’re talking about narrative point of view, a topic close to my rotten, diseased heart. My nearest and dearest will tell you that there is nothing I love more than annoying the living bejeezus out of readers by using an atypical POV. Mind you, this only really works (for me) in short fiction. [...]
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Posted 21 October 2011
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Tagged: A Rose For Emily, Bright Lights Bit City, Faulkner, how to write, How to Write Novels, How to Write Short Stories, Jay McInnery, Narrative, novel, Point of View, POV, Short Story, writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mEOxi8trrII Docfest: Donor Unknown Reviewed by Thomas Roche for SF Appeal Director Jerry Rothwell’s 2010 film Donor Unknown has its final Docfest screening tonight at 5pm at the Shattuck. It tells the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, a Pennsylvania girl with two mommies who’s always wanted to learn about her biological father, an anonymous sperm [...]
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