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 bookstores in the world (possibly the largest at this point, I’m not 100% sure). The location is gorgeous, gorgeously-appointed, luxurious, low-key, and most importantly packed with great books. The staff is [...]
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 says, in part, “The Panama Laugh by Thomas S. Roche grabs you by the throat and punches you in the face from beginning to end, and I mean [...]
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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Also tagged: bbc, crime fiction, erotic crime fiction, erotic crime story, hard-boiled, hardboiled, maxim jakubowski, mystery, noir, noirotica, radio
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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Audio § Books § Horror § Science Fiction § The Panama Laugh
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Also tagged: Audio, Audiobook, Free, Horror, Night Shade Books, Open Source Sex, Panama Laugh, Podcast, Story, Thomas 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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Also tagged: Apocalypse, Boating, Costa Rica, Jeremy Lassen, Latin America, Maritime, Night Shade Books, Panama Laugh, Texas, Thomas Roche, Z: Zombie Stories, Zombie, Zombies