11 Mar 2013
by manda lynn
in Books, My Favorite Things
Tags: Adam Autin, Alexander Davis, Amanda Gowin, Andrew McElrath, anthology, Audrey Hare, Chris Deal, Cipher Sister, DB Cox, edward j rathke, Edward Morris, Jason Lee, Ken Goudey, Matt McGee, michael gonzalez, Rebecca Brown, Richard Thomas, Sek Han Foo, short stories, Thunderdome, Thunderdome Press, thunderdomemag.com, Tone Baker, W.P. Johnson, Xander Stronach
Cipher Sister
Table of Contents
Darcy and Lucy among the Flowers by Alexander Davis
Lucky by DB Cox
The Cipher Sisters and Kid Nosferatu Dance the Bally-Kooch by Edward Morris
Mickey Slim by Chris Deal
A Witch in West Kansas by W.P. Johnson
Mercy by Rebecca Brown
1951 by Matt McGee
There’s no Business Like BLANK by Xander Stronach
That’s Showbiz by Jason Lee
1971 by Ken Goudey
Real Lookers by Audrey Hare
Dance, Darling by Richard Thomas
Regular Earharts by Andrew McElrath
You & Me by Adam Autin
Saga Sideshow by Tone Baker
Chance Meeting at the Back of the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, NYC by Sek Han Foo
Asymmetry by Amanda Gowin
Sister is the Sister by Edward J Rathke
19 Mar 2012
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees, My Favorite Things
Tags: Amanda Gowin, anthology, Fever, mike gonzalez, short stories, Teetotaler, thundadome.com, Thunderdome, thunderdomemag.com, Tin Man, writer, writing
Thunderdome just had an overhaul. The site is sexy and easy to navigate, and there are lots of new projects – wander around:
http://thunderdomemag.com/index.php
keep peeking around for news – i’m about to become a co-editor. so far that job has entailed digging up pretty photos from my hard drive, but i have a feeling it’s going to get a BIT more intense than that. for now, here are the updated links for my stories in the Thunderdome:
“Teetotaler” http://thunderdomemag.com/component/k2/item/44-teetotaler
“Fever” http://thunderdomemag.com/component/k2/item/25-fever
“Tin Man” http://thunderdomemag.com/collections/the-collective-speaks/writers-in-residence-warmed-and-bound/item/100-tin-man
Congrats, Mike, on a site well done!
01 Mar 2012
by manda lynn
in Books, My Favorite Things
Tags: Amanda Gowin, Bob Pastorella, boden steiner, Chris Deal, craig clevenger, craig wallwork, Dennis Cruz, Doc O'Donnell, ebook LA1K, edward j rathke, gordon highland, Grigori Black, H.R. Tardiff, In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1000 Words, Jay Slayton-Joslin, LA1K, michael paul gonzalez, mike gonzalez, Nicholas Merlin Karpuk, Nik Houser, nik korpon, Nikki Guerlain, Patrick Verhagen, Pela Via, Richard Thomas, Ryan Wilson, Simon West-Bulford, Stephen Conley, Stuart Gibbel, thundadome.com, Thunderdome, Victor Bengtsson
THE LINK: http://www.amazon.com/Search-City-Los-Angeles-Words/dp/1466338172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330368769&sr=1-1
seriously, it’s $2.99 and this is what you get:
Table of Contents
Ryan Wilson – “American Trash”
Stuart Gibbel – “Break on Through”
Craig Clevenger – “Obsolescence”
Nik Korpon – “South of Thirteen”
Dennis Cruz – “Smile Now, Cry Later”
Pela Via – “Bathhouse”
Stephen Conley – “Don’t Feed the Animals”
Grigori Black – “This Was Heaven”
Doc O’Donnell – “Your Personal Apocalypse”
Nikki Guerlain – “Sick Ticket”
Patrick Verhagen – “Swim”
Craig Wallwork – “El Bordello Alexandra”
Nicholas Merlin Karpuk – “Ahm’s Bay”
Nik Houser – “Subtitles for a Silent Film”
H.R. Tardiff – “Walls in the Sand”
Richard Thomas – “The Jenny Store”
Bob Pastorella – “Alexandra”
Simon West-Bulford – “Project Asmodeus”
Jay Slayton-Joslin – “The Fantasy of California vs. The Reality of London”
Amanda Gowin – “Gilded Bones”
Chris Deal – “Padre Nuestro”
Boden Steiner – “Here”
Gordon Highland – “Fry Girl”
edward j rathke – “All the Dreams You Dreamt Retold”
Michael Paul Gonzalez – “Tidal”
Victor Bengtsson – “Venice, Forever”
15 Nov 2011
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees, My Favorite Things
Tags: anthology, hollywood, Los Angeles, michael gonzalez, photography, photos, short stories, thundadome.com, Thunderdome, writer, writing
that’s right. it’s almost here. like, think near Thanksgiving. it’ll be available through amazon and the thundadome site. it will feature 26 incredible stories by 26 incredible authors, each of those stories in some way about L.A., each of those stories exactly 1,000 words long. and overflowing with incredible photographs by the editor himself, one Mr. Michael Gonzalez. so, this holiday season you now have something else to be thankful for: a picture book with awesome stories. here’s a sneak peek photo:
i’m not even going to name-drop on the authors included. that will come soon enough. for now, i give you just this one photo, and the imagined sound of me dancing in my socks on linoleum while singing (poorly) ‘Hold On’ by Wilson Phillips…
16 Aug 2011
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees, My Favorite Things, short stories i love
Tags: anthology, edward j rathke, Here Is Nowhere, short stories, the velvet, thundadome.com, Thunderdome, Warmed and Bound, writing
04 Aug 2011
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees, My Favorite Things, short stories i love
Tags: craig wallwork, Mr. Wadsworth and the Flea Circus, short stories, the velvet, thundadome.com, Thunderdome, Warmed and Bound, writing
Mr. Wadsworth and the Flea Circus
(first in a series of 8 stories/posts on Thundadome featuring authors from Warmed and Bound – next on Monday, by Chris Deal!! also i’ll be doing the accompanying site photos for the stories – EXCEPT this one, sorry craig, i begged in late for the job)
27 Apr 2011
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees
Tags: alice in wonderland, big foot, dollstar tattoo, family, nefarious muse, Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, ohio, projects, screenplay, sex, storm, Thunderdome, tornado, Warmed and Bound, writer, writing
they say there will be twisters and hail and mayhem and sideways wind and monsters and flash floods and families of bigfoots (don’t believe that’s the correct pluralization? please check out this awesome documentary by Jay Delaney, Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, now streaming on netflix – if they don’t know about Bigfoot in Portsmouth, OH, then who does?? the fish glow in that place) forced to relocate to higher land, forming a long line of chewbacca-like silhoettes in the distance – but no one will see any of this, due to the STORM and the twisters and the witches and cows in trees…
so they say. i just hear steady spring rain, that dictates the tv and radio be OFF.
turns out i like doing ten things at once, provided they all involve a keyboard or an ink pen. i’m a happy clam. between the movie, some shorts i fixed up for Nefarious Muse, a brewing thing at Thunderdome, random dancing every time i think of the Velvet Anthology, my little brain feels tingly right behind the eyes.
adam fell asleep in under 4 seconds. the last puppy found a home. i love my husband. i wish i could be the receptionist at dollstar. my kid picked up ten very mundane then extraordinary rocks once he explained to me what they like and when asked by mike what was up, adam answered “it’s mommy’s collection.”
nyquil and exhaustion are making me contemplate a 6 dollar pink alice in wonderland t-shirt far longer than it need be pondered. that’s my cue to sign off for the night….
pertinent links:
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie: http://notyourtypicalbigfootmovie.com/
Nefarious Muse: http://nefariousmuse.com/
Thunderdome: http://thundadome.com/
Warmed And Bound: http://warmedandbound.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/authors/
11 Mar 2011
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees
Tags: Amanda Gowin, Beth Maloney, Bob Pastorella, Chris Deal, collections, Doc O'Donnell, edward j rathke, Frank Reyes, Ides, Ides of March, short stories, Stephen Graham Jones, Thunderdome, writer, writing
28 Feb 2011
by manda lynn
in Living In the Trees
Tags: 2011, book, dorothy parker, ezine, family, lunacy, martin rath, spring, thundadome.com, Thunderdome, writer, writing, zombies
“And sweet’s the air with curly smoke, From all my burning bridges.”
ooooooh, february has been HUGE. going into march with all this newness. my moods are five minute whirlwinds of euphoria turning to rage turning to despair turning to gratefulness turning to exasperation turning to overwhelmed turning to calm contentedness turning back to euphoria..
cutting a lot of fat from my life. by fat i mean people. i’m tired of humouring everyone. i’m not turning MEAN -as opposed to being mean, i am simply cutting ties and eliminating room for complication and anger.
it feels good.
today was eric’s first day back at his new job (sounds funny but it’s true). his forehead is so smooth as compared to 3 months ago he looks botoxed. there will be some second shift but a longer lifespan so that i can live with..
Martin Rath’s “Of the Dead”will be all over the German comicons this year, and my name is on that. in some small way i helped put that together, or at least, you know, helped dig up the acorn (substitute whatever analogy you like for that one). more info on that one as i get it, i’m gonna pimp the hell outta that zombie movie. it’s fucking awesome. oh, laverne, you make such a pretty corpse….
took my own author photo for the Book. set up the tripod outside the barn and clicked away with the timer. it makes it feel real.
tomorrow thundadome.com goes live with The Ides – i’ll post that link tomorrow, too!!
beth and i are talking with some others - The Others, that’s formal but personal, i like that – about putting together a zombie webzine. i think we can do it. more to come on that later, too…
this feels boastful and emotionally inadequate, i think it’s because i have green popsicle on the back of my left hand and am mainly calculating how long it will take for it to drip bewteen my fingers, and if i can finish this before it does – mainly i wanted to type this up fast to say hell yeah, 2011. i will work harder to deserve you.
it’s almost spring….
onward!!!
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