Buy “Giant Slugs,” and get a free copy of “Amazing Adult Fantasy”!

If you order my novel Giant Slugs between now and 13 April, I’ll send you a free copy of my prose collection Amazing Adult Fantasy (which retails for $12.95 US). (I’m afraid that, for now, this is North America only.)

You can purchase Giant Slugs directly from its publisher, Lawrence and Gibson. It costs $38 New Zealand (that includes shipping to the US), which equals roughly $31.77 US.

So this way, for that amount, you get both of my books, shipping included!

For more about Giant Slugs, click here. And for more about Amazing Adult Fantasy, click here. (And if you have any questions, let me know!)

Update: If you order GS before AWP, and will be in town for that conference, I’ll be happy to hand you a copy of AAF there!

I will be reading at two AWP off-site readings

Just like May’s G8 Summit, when thousands of delegates and protestors will descend on the city, AWP is coming in two weeks to Chicago. As such, I will be reading at two off-site events:

“Artifice / Mutable Sound / Smalldoggies“
Thursday, 1 March, 5–7:30pm
at Beef and Brandy (127 S.State St.)
feat. Jen Gann (Backtuck), A D Jameson (Giant Slugs, Amazing Adult Fantasy), Mike Kitchell (Slow Slidings), Christian Tebordo (The Awful Possibilities, We Go Liquid), J.A. Tyler (The Jimmy Interludes, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed), Colin Winnette (Revelation, Animal Collection), Brian Allen Carr (Short Bus), Carrie Seitzinger (The Dots Don’t Connect), and Joel Patton.

“Come on, Seven!”
Friday, March 2, 6–8pm
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom (112 S. Michigan Ave.)
feat. Tantra Bensko, Eckhard Gerdes, James R. Hugunin, A D Jameson, Lance Olsen, Davis Schneiderman, and Yuriy Tarnawsky

I hope to see you there!

My 3rd Music Video: “Mousey Toy”

After finishing the two Mecca Normal videos, I emailed Jamie Stewart, asking if I could direct a video for his band Xiu Xiu. He said sure, and sent me a copy of “Mousey Toy,” from their then-forthcoming album La Forêt (5 Rue Christine, 2005).

My 2nd Music Video: “In January”

Happily, Jean and David liked “No Mind’s Eye,” and asked if I’d make a video for their longer song “In January.” (A shorter version had appeared on The Family Swan; the extended version was released on their 2003 album Janis Zeppelin.) I agreed, unsure of what I was getting into.

In April 2003 I moved to Bangkok, Thailand …

My 1st Music Video: “No Mind’s Eye”

I don’t talk much about it these days, but I used to direct music videos. Some of them are up at YouTube. Maybe in the coming days I’ll see about putting the others up. In the meantime, here’s the first one I ever made, a collaboration with my pal Elf. We made it for Mecca Normal in January 2003:

The song’s from their album “The Family Swan.”

A Guide to All of My Writing at HTMLGIANT

The articles are starting to pile up there, so I created a section at my website that links to each post.

I also took a moment to update my guide to all of my writing at Big Other. Enjoy…

My old and painfully bad story “Roses” appeared in Necessary Fiction

Steve Himmer was looking for “the earliest story you’re willing to share without revising.” As I explain in my introductory note:

I wrote “Roses” in 1995–6, soon after I started taking writing workshops at Penn State University. My primary interests then were poetry and flash fiction, mainly because I’d yet to write anything longer than 500 words. I didn’t know much about making stories, so everything I wrote that year is an overly precious, roundabout attempt to communicate some tidbit to the reader. Thankfully, I soon lost interest in this kind of stuff; all that remains is that I still fuss too much with my sentences.

The story is here; enjoy!

I will be reading at Revolving Door on Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Second time’s the charm:

Time: 7:30–9:30pm (there will be an open mic, starting at 7:30)

Place: South Halsted Gallery (1825 S. Halsted, Chicago)

Concept: Possibly ugly sweaters still?

Cost: $5 but there will be free drinks!

More: Here’s Revolving Door’s website, where you can see videos of past readings.

+ there will be another reader, Roger Reeves, so come see him if not me

Hope to see you on the 25th!

I updated my website

Specifically, I finished linking to all of my online publications (minus the Big Other and HTMLGIANT stuff). Now you can revisit pieces from Amazing Adult Fantasy, Giant Slugs, plus numerous other stories and novel excerpts and book reviews and miscellaneous things. Or…you can not! Either way, enjoy.

…I also updated the events page.

I will be reading at Revolving Door’s “Jingle & Mingle” reading on Wednesday, December 21

[This event was canceled! And rescheduled for 25 January 2012. See above for details.]

Time: 7:30–9:30pm (there will be an open mic, starting at 7:30)

Place: South Halsted Gallery (1825 S. Halsted, Chicago)

Concept: This month we’re celebrating the holidays with you! Put on an ugly Christmas sweater and come mingle with us!

Cost: $5 but there will be free drinks, plus “a prize given for the ugliest sweater!”

More: Here’s Revolving Door’s website, where you can see videos of past readings.

Hope to see you on the 21st!