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- About Thomas S. Roche
September 26, 2011, 18:39
Thomas S. Roche's debut novel is The Panama Laugh, a science fiction zombie apocalypse about viral media, military contracting, and LOLZ. It releases…
- About The Panama Laugh
September 26, 2011, 18:40
The Panama Laugh is the long-awaited debut novel from Thomas S. Roche. A fast-paced novel of horror, crime, and hoped-for redemption, it has been praised…
- Top Posts
October 21, 2011, 07:54
Top 10 Posts This Month: Top 10 Posts 2011: Top 10 posts of all time:
- Zombie Bibliography
October 29, 2011, 20:16
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…
- Table of Contents
October 17, 2011, 22:44
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- Category: Horror (8)
- [Night Bazaar] How I Found My Strengths as a Writer by: thomasroche
December 9, 2011, 13:56
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…
- The House of Corporate Horrors Guest Post at Suvudu.com by: thomasroche
November 8, 2011, 10:10
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…
- Thomas Roche Interview at 10ZenMonkeys by: thomasroche
November 4, 2011, 20:39
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.…
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
October 30, 2011, 22:30
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…
- My Zombie Bibliography by: thomasroche
October 29, 2011, 19:28
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…
- Come See Me @ LitCrawl With Ray Garton & Richard Kadrey, Oct. 15 by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 19:25
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…
- Free Audio Story -- The Panama Laugh: "St. John of the Throwdown" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:30
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…
- Z: Zombie Stories, Featuring my Zombie Oil Spill Novella "Deepwater Miracle" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:27
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…
- [Night Bazaar] How I Found My Strengths as a Writer by: thomasroche
- Category: Events (2)
- Video: Roger Zelazny Reads Two Stories by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 19:44
http://youtu.be/TRQ4wKLfYbc The great science fiction writer Roger Zelazny was an amazing reader. A few years ago, with some effort, I tracked…
- Come See Me @ LitCrawl With Ray Garton & Richard Kadrey, Oct. 15 by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 19:25
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…
- Video: Roger Zelazny Reads Two Stories by: thomasroche
- Category: Zombies (3)
- The House of Corporate Horrors Guest Post at Suvudu.com by: thomasroche
November 8, 2011, 10:10
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…
- Naked Democracy Linked To My 10ZenMonkeys Interview by: thomasroche
November 7, 2011, 20:28
Yves Smith's blog Naked Democracy linked to Destiny's interview with me at 10ZenMonkeys in its links list today -- and as Destiny points out, put us before…
- Thomas Roche Interview at 10ZenMonkeys by: thomasroche
November 4, 2011, 20:39
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.…
- The House of Corporate Horrors Guest Post at Suvudu.com by: thomasroche
- Category: Audio (2)
- Thomas Roche Story Hell On Wheels to be Broadcast on BBC by: thomasroche
September 28, 2011, 16:12
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…
- Free Audio Story -- The Panama Laugh: "St. John of the Throwdown" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:30
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…
- Thomas Roche Story Hell On Wheels to be Broadcast on BBC by: thomasroche
- Category: Travel (2)
- [Techyum] Polynesia Tourist Cannibal Death Claim: Racist or Real? by: thomasroche
October 21, 2011, 09:26
Forty-year-old German yachtsman Stefan Ramin disappeared in September while on Nuka Hiva, a remote tropical island in French Polynesia. After charred bones…
- Tequila-Soaked Sin in The Big Tomato, Courtesy of Violet Blue by: thomasroche
September 27, 2011, 05:46
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…
- [Techyum] Polynesia Tourist Cannibal Death Claim: Racist or Real? by: thomasroche
- Category: Movies (4)
- The Rum Diary: Handy Checklist for Reviewers by: thomasroche
October 28, 2011, 13:42
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…
- Donor Unknown (2010, dir: Jerry Rothwell) by: thomasroche
October 20, 2011, 14:59
Donor Unknown tells the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, a girl with two mommies who's looks for her anonymous sperm bank donor father.
- How to Start a Revolution by: thomasroche
October 20, 2011, 10:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vk1XbyFv51k The truly great documentary How to Start a Revolution screens again this weekend at…
- Patagonia Rising (Chile, 2010, dir: Brian Lilla) by: thomasroche
October 19, 2011, 09:46
http://youtu.be/zFELcWf47Bk Docfest: Patagonia Rising (Chile, 2010, dir: Brian Lilla) Reviewed by Thomas Roche for SFAppeal SFIndie's 10th Annual San…
- The Rum Diary: Handy Checklist for Reviewers by: thomasroche
- Category: Blogging (24)
- A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by: thomasroche
April 18, 2012, 14:34
A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre is, ultimately, a good book about a great story. It is only "good," in and…
- Night Bazaar: Good Night, Mrs. Calabash, Wherever You Are by: thomasroche
December 30, 2011, 06:15
Over at The Night Bazaar, I've posted my final column: This is my final column for The Night Bazaar. The blog was conceived as a way to promote writers…
- Hellhound on my Trail by: thomasroche
December 23, 2011, 06:15
From this week's Night Bazaar column, my second-to-last: This week's topic is "What was the year like for you as a writer." Such a topic is dangerous for…
- Two SF/Fantasy Predictions for 2012 by: thomasroche
December 16, 2011, 12:49
From my new column at The Night Bazaar: Genre Trends for 2012 I'm notoriously bad at staying on top of trends in any medium. This is true of music,…
- These Japanese Girls Are The Future of Dance by: thomasroche
December 14, 2011, 08:47
In case you haven't seen it...here. These two girls in Japan are the future of dance. Just thought you'd like to know. You're welcome. …
- Rocky Horror Picture Show Matryoshkas by: thomasroche
December 13, 2011, 22:22
There's so much I find overwhelmingly creepy about these Rocky Horror Picture Show matryoshka dolls on Etsy. Maybe it's because in my RHPS matryoshka…
- Kindle Edition of Fetish Sex: An Erotic Guide for Couples by: thomasroche
December 11, 2011, 11:51
I'm excited to announce that my very good friend Violet Blue has released a Kindle edition, fully revised and updated, of Fetish Sex: An Erotic Guide for…
- [Night Bazaar] Child Soldiers and Zombie Apocalypses by: thomasroche
December 2, 2011, 09:00
Today, I posted a piece at The Night Bazaar about writing my young adult zombie novella "Deepwater Miracle": I discovered something fascinating to me as…
- [Night Bazaar] Thanks for the Readers by: thomasroche
November 25, 2011, 11:32
If I started thanking all the people I owe thanks to, I could be here the rest of the day and y'all would stop reading around about page sixty-zillion, if not…
- [Tiny Nibbles] Does Higher Testosterone in Men Mean Safer Sex? by: thomasroche
November 22, 2011, 00:29
A new study from the University of Michigan is sure to get trotted out for years to come as proof that "real men have safe sex." But to my eyes, what the…
- [Tiny Nibbles] The Terror of Adolescent Hamster Sex by: thomasroche
November 22, 2011, 00:24
In case you're wondering why it's dangerous to put loaded science in the hands of journalistic toddlers, the article Why Macho Men Are More Likely to Have Safe…
- Listen to My Story "Hell on Wheels" Free at the BBC Website by: thomasroche
November 18, 2011, 15:34
My short story "Hell on Wheels" can now be heard as a radio program, read by Peter Maniker, at the BBC Four Extra Radio Pulp Fiction website. Update…
- [Night Bazaar] The Luxury of War by: thomasroche
November 18, 2011, 14:16
Today at The Night Bazaar, I'm considering the way in which my obsession with writing about war reflects my own internal neuroses, and how that is reflected…
- Bacon-Flavored Sex Breakfast: The Joy of Baconlube by: thomasroche
November 16, 2011, 13:54
Do you swoon when your lover brings you bacon chocolate? Do you swear by the bacon flow chart? Do you sport bacon-themed tattoos in suggestive…
- Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World by: thomasroche
November 14, 2011, 18:22
Because I tend to read so randomly, I just listened to the audiobook of the 2008 release of Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World. Sadly, he's now…
- The House of Corporate Horrors Guest Post at Suvudu.com by: thomasroche
November 8, 2011, 10:10
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…
- [Night Bazaar] Heroes and Heroines by: thomasroche
November 4, 2011, 13:41
Here's an excerpt from my new post at The Night Bazaar, "Heroes and Heroines:" I'm never quite sure what makes a hero, which I think is probably the key to…
- Hell on Wheels airing November 12, 2011 at 11:30pm by: thomasroche
November 4, 2011, 09:38
For those of you who are interested, here's info at the BBC website about my short story "Hell on Wheels" airing next Saturday Nov. 12, at 11:30pm UK time. It…
- The Rum Diary: Handy Checklist for Reviewers by: thomasroche
October 28, 2011, 13:42
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…
- Say Hello to the Monster: What Halloween Has to do with Occupy Oakland by: thomasroche
October 28, 2011, 11:03
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…
- Dreaming About Blogging About Dreaming About Shooting The Shit With Milton Berle About Antacid in the Middle of the Night, YEAR 3 by: thomasroche
October 19, 2011, 06:00
Author's note: This repost of an October 19, 2008 post on my old WordPress.com site will commemorate the third anniversary of my having passed a critical…
- Tequila-Soaked Sin in The Big Tomato, Courtesy of Violet Blue by: thomasroche
September 27, 2011, 05:46
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…
- Irish Comedian Dylan Moran on the French by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:23
http://youtu.be/kLVV7e2FGpg With no disrespect intended to my many French acquaintances over the years... and the many more French…
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: thomasroche
August 18, 2011, 06:00
As part of my reading about great war tragedies -- which I can't seem to get enough of -- A Long Way Gone is a really amazing book. It is the story of Ishmael…
- A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by: thomasroche
- Category: Books (14)
- A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by: thomasroche
April 18, 2012, 14:34
A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre is, ultimately, a good book about a great story. It is only "good," in and…
- By the way, Did I Mention 'The Panama Laugh' Was a Finalist For the Bram Stoker Award by: thomasroche
April 15, 2012, 17:05
It seems I got a day job again, and practically abandoned this blog, as well as Boiled Hard. So I never mentioned that my military-noir-anticorporate zombie…
- Circlet Press's New Ebook Edition of Francesca Lia Block's Erotic Classic 'Nymph' on Sale Through Valentine's Day by: thomasroche
February 5, 2012, 12:14
(This post first appeared on Tiny Nibbles -- LINK NSFW) Boston indie publisher Circlet Press has been publishing erotic science…
- 'The Panama Laugh' Makes the Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot! by: thomasroche
February 1, 2012, 12:06
This happened a week or two ago, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to keep up with my blog posts. Anyway...My debut novel The Panama Laugh is on the…
- Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World by: thomasroche
November 14, 2011, 18:22
Because I tend to read so randomly, I just listened to the audiobook of the 2008 release of Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World. Sadly, he's now…
- Mind Meld at SF Signal by: thomasroche
October 21, 2011, 20:58
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…
- Best Sex Writing 2012 by: thomasroche
October 14, 2011, 08:15
My article "Men Who 'Buy Sex' Commit More Crimes: Newsweek, Trafficking, and the Lie of Fabricated Sex Studies," which first appeared at Tiny Nibbles, has been…
- The Panama Laugh is...a Best-Seller! by: thomasroche
October 8, 2011, 20:15
Borderlands Books at 866 Valencia Street in San Francisco was my neighborhood bookstore for bazillions of years. It's one of the largest science fiction-fantasy…
- 'Grabs You By the Throat and Punches You in the Face From Beginning to End' by: thomasroche
October 8, 2011, 06:38
W00t! YA author and clinical laboratory scientist Kelly Swails gave my novel The Panama Laugh a very positive review over at her Live Journal. In it, she…
- Thomas Roche Story Hell On Wheels to be Broadcast on BBC by: thomasroche
September 28, 2011, 16:12
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…
- Video: Roger Zelazny Reads Two Stories by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 19:44
http://youtu.be/TRQ4wKLfYbc The great science fiction writer Roger Zelazny was an amazing reader. A few years ago, with some effort, I tracked…
- Free Audio Story -- The Panama Laugh: "St. John of the Throwdown" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:30
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…
- Z: Zombie Stories, Featuring my Zombie Oil Spill Novella "Deepwater Miracle" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:27
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…
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: thomasroche
August 18, 2011, 06:00
As part of my reading about great war tragedies -- which I can't seem to get enough of -- A Long Way Gone is a really amazing book. It is the story of Ishmael…
- A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by: thomasroche
- Category: Writing (7)
- 'The Panama Laugh' Makes the Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot! by: thomasroche
February 1, 2012, 12:06
This happened a week or two ago, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to keep up with my blog posts. Anyway...My debut novel The Panama Laugh is on the…
- [Night Bazaar] How I Found My Strengths as a Writer by: thomasroche
December 9, 2011, 13:56
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…
- [Night Bazaar] Heroes and Heroines by: thomasroche
November 4, 2011, 13:41
Here's an excerpt from my new post at The Night Bazaar, "Heroes and Heroines:" I'm never quite sure what makes a hero, which I think is probably the key to…
- My Zombie Bibliography by: thomasroche
October 29, 2011, 19:28
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…
- Mind Meld at SF Signal by: thomasroche
October 21, 2011, 20:58
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…
- [Night Bazaar] Point of View by: thomasroche
October 21, 2011, 08:22
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…
- New Post at The Night Bazaar: Writing Rules vs. Rules of Thumb by: thomasroche
October 14, 2011, 07:22
Hey! If you're in the San Francisco area, come see me read with Richard Kadrey and Naamen Tilahun at Borderlands Books on Valencia Street tomorrow evening…
- 'The Panama Laugh' Makes the Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot! by: thomasroche
- Category: The Panama Laugh (10)
- By the way, Did I Mention 'The Panama Laugh' Was a Finalist For the Bram Stoker Award by: thomasroche
April 15, 2012, 17:05
It seems I got a day job again, and practically abandoned this blog, as well as Boiled Hard. So I never mentioned that my military-noir-anticorporate zombie…
- 'The Panama Laugh' Makes the Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot! by: thomasroche
February 1, 2012, 12:06
This happened a week or two ago, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to keep up with my blog posts. Anyway...My debut novel The Panama Laugh is on the…
- The House of Corporate Horrors Guest Post at Suvudu.com by: thomasroche
November 8, 2011, 10:10
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…
- Naked Democracy Linked To My 10ZenMonkeys Interview by: thomasroche
November 7, 2011, 20:28
Yves Smith's blog Naked Democracy linked to Destiny's interview with me at 10ZenMonkeys in its links list today -- and as Destiny points out, put us before…
- Thomas Roche Interview at 10ZenMonkeys by: thomasroche
November 4, 2011, 20:39
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.…
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
October 30, 2011, 22:30
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…
- My Zombie Bibliography by: thomasroche
October 29, 2011, 19:28
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…
- The Panama Laugh is...a Best-Seller! by: thomasroche
October 8, 2011, 20:15
Borderlands Books at 866 Valencia Street in San Francisco was my neighborhood bookstore for bazillions of years. It's one of the largest science fiction-fantasy…
- 'Grabs You By the Throat and Punches You in the Face From Beginning to End' by: thomasroche
October 8, 2011, 06:38
W00t! YA author and clinical laboratory scientist Kelly Swails gave my novel The Panama Laugh a very positive review over at her Live Journal. In it, she…
- Free Audio Story -- The Panama Laugh: "St. John of the Throwdown" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:30
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…
- By the way, Did I Mention 'The Panama Laugh' Was a Finalist For the Bram Stoker Award by: thomasroche
- Category: Crime Noir (2)
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
October 30, 2011, 22:30
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…
- Thomas Roche Story Hell On Wheels to be Broadcast on BBC by: thomasroche
September 28, 2011, 16:12
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…
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
- Category: Sex (7)
- Circlet Press's New Ebook Edition of Francesca Lia Block's Erotic Classic 'Nymph' on Sale Through Valentine's Day by: thomasroche
February 5, 2012, 12:14
(This post first appeared on Tiny Nibbles -- LINK NSFW) Boston indie publisher Circlet Press has been publishing erotic science…
- Argentinian LGBT Rights PSAs by: thomasroche
November 26, 2011, 20:34
The above Argentinian PSA got me all verklempt. It shows a series of transgender Argentinians talking about how it feels to have the name on…
- Bacon-Flavored Sex Breakfast: The Joy of Baconlube by: thomasroche
November 16, 2011, 13:54
Do you swoon when your lover brings you bacon chocolate? Do you swear by the bacon flow chart? Do you sport bacon-themed tattoos in suggestive…
- Herman Cain's Chief of Staff is the New Cigarette Smoking Man by: thomasroche
October 25, 2011, 17:06
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…
- Republican Frontrunners' Constitution Amendment Would Outlaw Birth Control Pills by: thomasroche
October 24, 2011, 13:31
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;…
- Donor Unknown (2010, dir: Jerry Rothwell) by: thomasroche
October 20, 2011, 14:59
Donor Unknown tells the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, a girl with two mommies who's looks for her anonymous sperm bank donor father.
- Best Sex Writing 2012 by: thomasroche
October 14, 2011, 08:15
My article "Men Who 'Buy Sex' Commit More Crimes: Newsweek, Trafficking, and the Lie of Fabricated Sex Studies," which first appeared at Tiny Nibbles, has been…
- Circlet Press's New Ebook Edition of Francesca Lia Block's Erotic Classic 'Nymph' on Sale Through Valentine's Day by: thomasroche
- Category: Science Fiction (3)
- [Night Bazaar] How I Found My Strengths as a Writer by: thomasroche
December 9, 2011, 13:56
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…
- Mind Meld at SF Signal by: thomasroche
October 21, 2011, 20:58
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…
- Free Audio Story -- The Panama Laugh: "St. John of the Throwdown" by: thomasroche
September 26, 2011, 18:30
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…
- [Night Bazaar] How I Found My Strengths as a Writer by: thomasroche
- Category: Politics (11)
- A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by: thomasroche
April 18, 2012, 14:34
A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre is, ultimately, a good book about a great story. It is only "good," in and…
- Argentinian LGBT Rights PSAs by: thomasroche
November 26, 2011, 20:34
The above Argentinian PSA got me all verklempt. It shows a series of transgender Argentinians talking about how it feels to have the name on…
- [Night Bazaar] The Luxury of War by: thomasroche
November 18, 2011, 14:16
Today at The Night Bazaar, I'm considering the way in which my obsession with writing about war reflects my own internal neuroses, and how that is reflected…
- Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World by: thomasroche
November 14, 2011, 18:22
Because I tend to read so randomly, I just listened to the audiobook of the 2008 release of Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World. Sadly, he's now…
- The House of Corporate Horrors Guest Post at Suvudu.com by: thomasroche
November 8, 2011, 10:10
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…
- Naked Democracy Linked To My 10ZenMonkeys Interview by: thomasroche
November 7, 2011, 20:28
Yves Smith's blog Naked Democracy linked to Destiny's interview with me at 10ZenMonkeys in its links list today -- and as Destiny points out, put us before…
- Say Hello to the Monster: What Halloween Has to do with Occupy Oakland by: thomasroche
October 28, 2011, 11:03
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…
- Herman Cain's Chief of Staff is the New Cigarette Smoking Man by: thomasroche
October 25, 2011, 17:06
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…
- Republican Frontrunners' Constitution Amendment Would Outlaw Birth Control Pills by: thomasroche
October 24, 2011, 13:31
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;…
- How to Start a Revolution by: thomasroche
October 20, 2011, 10:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vk1XbyFv51k The truly great documentary How to Start a Revolution screens again this weekend at…
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: thomasroche
August 18, 2011, 06:00
As part of my reading about great war tragedies -- which I can't seem to get enough of -- A Long Way Gone is a really amazing book. It is the story of Ishmael…
- A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by: thomasroche
- Category: Halloween (1)
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
October 30, 2011, 22:30
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…
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
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- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
October 30, 2011, 22:30
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…
- Now For Sale in the Kindle Store: Viva Las Vegas, a Zombie Crime Story by: thomasroche
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