From my new column at The Night Bazaar, about finding your strengths and weaknesses as a writer: I’m far from convinced there’s any such profession as “writer” anymore; we’re all multi-taskers, by definition. But there is this thing called “writing,” yes, and occasionally I get to do it. When it comes to writing itself, I [...]
I did a guest post over at Suvudu.com called “The House of Corporate Horrors,” about the writing of my novel The Panama Laugh and what it all means! And also how my zombie novel is one of the extraordinarily few zombie novels (some would say “the only”) directly connected to Occupy Wall Street and Occupy [...]
For Halloween, I was interviewed by Destiny at 10 Zen Monkeys about my writing career and The Panama Laugh as well as politics, crime, and zombies in general. Here’s an excerpt: 10 ZEN MONKEYS: Is there something millenarian in the zeitgeist now — some universal sense of doom, or a desire to laugh and secede [...]
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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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 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
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