tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81787530257679499682024-02-19T02:11:10.870-05:00T. Fox Dunham's Writing Fox DenAuthor T. Fox Dunham shares his experiences as a working author and modern bard. FACEBOOK:http://www.facebook.com/tfoxdunham & TWITTER: @TFoxDunhamT. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-85065502536688295062020-03-09T17:29:00.002-04:002020-03-09T17:29:44.183-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
T. Fox Dunham talks about writing Mercy, his horror medical thriller based on his violating experiences while going through the treatment for lymphoma. </div>
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Horror author T. Fox Dunham tells the story of his medical horror thriller, Mercy, published by Blood Bound Books. Fox channels his invasive battle with cancer into the horror metaphor Mercy and shares his insights into the book on his show What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">When
I write about cancer, especially my horror work, I employ metaphors. These
metaphors explore the various forces a cancer patient must endure through
treatment and life after remission. I have used my writing to heal, writing
such work as my novella New World for May December Books or my new novel,
Mercy—a horror novel about the life of a cancer patient in hospital. The many
stories and novellas I've written about cancer have served as a catharsis, a
way to process my experience and understand it. I work to explore the emotions
I've felt and to share those emotions with other patients and their family
members. In my story, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Welcome to the
World Mister Smiles</i>, I cover these component themes of living with cancer.
Welcome to the World Mr. Smiles is a means for me to heal and to help myself
and others find expression through symbol, theme and metaphor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">First,
we start with the story conflict. Jai Chropra is a young man facing a death
sentence. For all of his life, he believed that cancer happened to other
people; and he'd be immune. Now it's happened to him, and as it did with me. It
shifts his perspective in to a state of spurious reality. The world no longer
feels. The laws physics don't make sense, yet he's under constant threat of
death. To endure this mind state, he detaches from reality and numbs himself. </span><br />
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begins undergoing preliminary treatment testing, including a Gallium scan. The
technician injects you with a radioactive isotope dye that is absorbed into
cancer cells then scans the body with a receptor plate. This is a way to
determine if you have tumors in your body, and they show up as white blobs on
the monitor. When I had to go through this test, I thought the white blobs looked
like clouds, nebulous and formless; and the mind sees patterns. I saw faces
swirling in the hoary masses, and I realized that the cancer was alive, maybe
possessing dark spirit. I had assigned it vindictiveness; darkness, evil, yet
these were human qualities I personified the cancer with. It felt easier being
a menace, something with an evil plot, because then I could fight it. Really,
it's just a disease, and there's nothing I could personally do to fight it. But
I needed to feel some kind of control, some way I could influence. In the
story, the cancer begins to talk to Jai, and he responds. The cancer has a
face. It has a name. And it can be killed. He no longer feels out of control.
Cancer patients need to feel they have some kind of control of their disease,
and they often trick themselves into believing it. Really, it's entirely out of
our hands.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And
it is alive. We personify things, contribute spirit and animation and
personality to forces like disease. This too is about control. What can be
controlled can’t hurt us. The reality is that almost everything in this
universe is out of human control, so we live in this fantasy that somehow we
can affect reality, change the course of events, even stop our death. This
story is not so much a horror as it is a fantasy. I would love to give my
disease a face and hands and a heart in which I could stab it. I want to be
able to fight it on my terms, to argue with it. In my story, the cancer has
will and a soul—and an appetite. Its nature is to feed. Even though it is
horror, this element gives me some peace. Jai finds a way to evict the
offending appendage from his body. It wants to be free. It speaks to him and
demands to be free, to feed on life, to hunt. They make a deal, and he cuts his
body wide and releases it. Their deal made, he goes off to try to live a normal
life, but it haunts him. This is another reality for the cancer patient. Even
if the caner is defeated, it sleeps, it waits, never too far from the mind of
the patient. We don’t stop thinking about it. It never gets easier. We just
find a new way to life with it, but always it’s never far. In Jai’s situation,
he learns that the tumor he shed from his body is now killing and eating
children. It is his responsibility. He birthed the monster. He gave it away
even though he knew what it would do. It wasn’t wrong of him. He wanted to
live. He wanted his life, his chance. It may not have been noble, but we can
forgive him that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And
then he’s haunted. Oh yes. I had my radiation at Penn. They had many of the severe
cases down there, especially children suffering this disease. I saw many of
them. I played with them. And so many didn’t survive. And it haunts me. I feel
guilty for living. Survivor’s guilt, as if I shed my cancer, and it killed
them. Survivor’s guilt compels so much of my life, and whatever I do is never
enough. The ghosts haunt him. They ask him why? And they intrude on the
spurious security he’s created as he goes on with his life. No matter what he
does, the children return night after night, and he’s going insane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Finally,
he decides to take action. This is another fantasy for me, something for which
I wish I had remedy. The cancer is alive. It has a soul. He determines to trap
it, using a mechanism he learned of in their encounter. They’re both living on
borrowed time. This too is a metaphor. I was never supposed to survive my rare
cell types of lymphoma, and I can’t help feeling like this is extra time—time
that’s running out. If he can bring the monster back into his body, time will
catch up, and they’ll both sicken and die. He can’t endure the guilt anymore,
and the burden of the fantasy of his long life is too much to live with. He
decides to give himself peace and take the monster with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This
too is my desire. I long for the peace of ignorance. I’m tired of carrying this
monster, and I wish I could do something to resolve the guilt. I have poured
these emotions into a metaphysical script. That’s the heart of modern magick,
and it doesn’t give me peace; however, at least it helps the pain for a little
while.</span><br />
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T. Fox Dunham lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Allison. He’s a lymphoma survivor, cancer patient, modern bard and historian. His first book, The Street Martyr, was published by Gutter Books. A major motion picture based on the book is being produced by Throughline Films. Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality or Searching for Andy Kaufman, a book about what it’s like to be dying of cancer, was recently released from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing and Fox has a story in the Stargate Anthology Points of Origin from MGM and Fandemonium Books. Fox is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and he’s had published hundreds of short stories and articles. He’s host and creator of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show, a popular horror program on PARA-X RADIO. His motto is wrecking civilization one story at a time. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tfoxdunham" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e4002b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.facebook.com/tfoxdunham</a> & Twitter: @TFoxDunham</div>
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<br />Writing the Modern Ghost Story Based on a True Story!<br />Written by T. Fox Dunham<br /><br /><br />Reader expectations change as genres and tropes evolve, and as authors, we must be in touch with current expectations. Over the last three years, producing episodes of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show, I’ve studied the modern true ghost story. People from around the world send in their paranormal experiences, and our voice actors record them into segments. Through my study, I’ve gained an insight into what modern audiences expect from ghost stories. I describe these elements to aid authors in understanding the preferred concepts when they create their own narratives. This is not an all-inclusive article, covering every aspect of the ghost story. I focus on the ‘based on a true story’ version, but I can confidently say that modern audiences will no longer be satisfied with a retelling of a classic Poe story.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MERCY-WYA-WEBSITE-BANNER.png?resize=398%2C224" /><br /><br /><br />Humans frighten and comfort themselves by telling ghost stories. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus journeys to the underworld in a spiritual adventure that brings the living and the dead into forbidden contact. Another early ghost story from around 50 AD comes to us from Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes a ghost bound in chains that haunts a house in Athens, which of course becomes an archetype in literature. Jinn, ghouls and corpses frequent the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, known as Arabian Nights, and the 11th century Japanese work, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji">The Tale of Genji</a> tells several ghost stories, including some early tales of spirit possession. Hamlet is essentially a ghost story as Hamlet’s father drives him to seek justice against his uncle. As a boy, Irving’s classic tale of the headless Hessian soldier kept me awake many nights. And of course, we all know Poe essentially founded the modern American ghost narrative. The ghost story continued to be told through history, finding a golden age during the Victorian period, which petered out at the start of World War I. It then found renewal in the era of cinema and modern literature. I could go on writing about the myriad examples of the manifestations of ghostlore, but this article focuses on the modern ghost story and how it has changed.<br /><br /><br />Ghost stories aren’t just happening on paper. The ghost story exists in every small town with a creepy abandoned house. Families tell stories of dark figures walking through walls and footsteps in the dead of night. The ghost story is an essential part of our modern mythology, and to be able to write a good ghost story, we must recognize the part these pieces of folk culture have played in our cultural consciousness and how it has evolved.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TOP30BANNER.png?resize=378%2C126" /><br /><br /><br />Ghost stories excite us in a different way than other mediums, especially the stories we believe are true. They give us a hint into the greatest mystery of humankind: what comes after? Ghost stories reassure us and offer an insight into our own futures. They promise immortality.<br /><br /><br />Storytellers have woven many myriad themes into ghostlore, though one common element resonates in every story: the transgression of the barrier between the world of the living and world of the dead. The forbidden contact—the spill of one disparate world into the other—generating an imbalance that creates disturbances in the living world. A barrier has been established, a wall, the silver veil in Celtic mythology, and natural law forbids us to breach this wall. Consequences follow that upset both life and the afterlife, and these ripples form the essence of a ghost story. We aren’t meant to see beyond death, and when we intrude upon it, we upset both our lives and the fabric of the current world. In a modern context, we find these stories even more disturbing and exhilarating. The best example is the story of the Lutz family.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror">The Amityville Horror</a> changed the ghost story, defining the modern version. The majority of modern ghost stories in the west draw elements from this supposed account, founding a new element to the market. Before the story, audiences were content to enjoy stories drawn from hazy history or pure fiction. Now they get an extra thrill when a story is said to be true; though, much license is often taken in that process from the authentic story to the bookstore or theater. I know the story well. It compelled me to write horror. Sometime before dawn on November 13 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr, the eldest of a good Catholic family in Amityville, New York, went from room to room in their reproduced colonial home and killed his parents and siblings with a shotgun. After being arrested for this brutal crime, Ronnie claimed that voices in the house compelled him to murder his family. Illogical details supported his story. For example, all the family members were killed while lying prone in their beds, even though Ronnie had to climb two floors to finish his work. No one reacted to the blast of the shotgun and seemed to wait for their fate. The murders disturbed the peaceful community, but no one attributed the crime to supernatural sponsors. One year later, the Lutz family buys the home at a reduced price and moves into the property. They form the core of the typical American unit, good quiet religious folk seeking a good life. Within the first week, unexplainable events disturbed the rhythm of their daily lives. Toilets flushed black ooze. An imaginary friend, a pig, caused havoc. Dark visions haunted the family. Over the next 28 days, the dark disturbances built, terrorizing the family and changing their dynamic until finally forcing them to flee the home, leaving all their possessions. To move on with their lives and heal from these traumatic events, George and Kathy Lutz with the help of author Jay Anson, penned a book that created a major media storm—something you’d want to do if you desire to move on from a traumatic period in your lives.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Amity.jpg?resize=520%2C298" /><br /><br /><br />112 Ocean Avenue–Site of the infamous Amityville Horror<br /><br /><br />The Amityville Horror set the tone for the western industry and created the concept of the ‘demonic’ infestation. Before these oddly dramatic events, ghost lore mainly featured the dead, souls of the living who had died and remained with us. Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the Exorcist, which was also ‘based’ on a true story. The Amityville model, as I’ll call it, revolves around a demon or supreme and powerful dark entity—a demon being the most common, drawn from Christian religion. You can see versions of this theme in movies like A Conjuring, which was based on the travels of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who also pretty much created this sub-genre. Of course, money is to be made. The paranormal is popular and generates revenue. Cable television has jumped on this trend, and we now have channels devoted to the ‘true’ paranormal.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SENDUSGHOSTS-PIC-HALLOWEEN2018-1.png?resize=361%2C361" /><br /><br /><br />As cable diversified, channels like A&E and Discovery found a market in the supernatural. Shows like A Ghost Story or My Ghost Story indulged niches as paranormal documentaries, feeding off the majority of shared ghost encounters in the western world. The show, A Haunting, followed the model of the classic dark ghost story, telling Amityville-like stories under an hour. As producer and one of the hosts of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show, I have interviewed many guests from these shows, especially A Haunting, and I’ve gained an insight into this growing television genre. Shows like Sci-fi’s Ghosthunters and all the follow-ups take us one step further, showing us haunted disturbances in real time. These documentaries take us one step closer to ‘based on a true story’, though keep in mind these shows are still edited and filled with suggestion, defining our expectations. They all follow a certain model or dramatic pattern. Don’t let the promise of a true account fool you. These elements have been edited, sifted, ordered and embellished to tell you a story. Most real ghost stories don’t follow classic sine waves of plot, starting as a disturbance and then rising to a climax. It’s usually a series of events of varying intensity that end when the occupants move. Audiences don’t find that very entertaining, and trust me, marketing and profit drive this genre as it does fantasy, action or science-fiction, often at the expense of the original author who demands the veracity of their experience.<br /><br /><br />There’s a difference between stories of true hauntings and ghost stories. Ghost stories, such as the accounts of paranormal story collector, Mark Nesbitt of Gettysburg, tell a shorter story of witnessed events that happen randomly and without a plot climax. Visitors of the Gettysburg Historic Site witness brief scenes of grey and blue soldiers fighting on Cemetery Ridge or even of freakish creatures like the bearded man of Devil’s Den. Many haunted house accounts talk about random phenomena that doesn’t really tell a story. Footsteps are heard. Plates are moved. Voices whisper over amplifiers. Sometimes ghosts are seen. It never climaxes or turns malevolent. Then you have the long story of the demonic haunting, which takes place as I described above.<br /><br /><br />Most stories of demonic hauntings are exaggerated or completely fictional. I’ve come to believe this after personally interviewing many authors of paranormal books who were the subject of a ‘demonic’ attack. I find many of the details sensational, usually not backed up by the account of events and without verification. That’s fine. I tell people we’re not here to verify the stories. We just share them, whether true or not. And, it’s not only the authors who deceive. Sometimes, they believe their stories, and perhaps they are true, and it’s the publisher or media company that edits their story to create a frightening episode. I’ve spoken to many authors who have had their stories dramatized for television who feel duped. Their stories were edited, changed to make good television. Real ghost stories don’t follow a classic plot buildup. There’s no final battle. No rising climax. No great battle of good and evil. The afterlife such as in life doesn’t perform like a play. Stuff happens. It doesn’t happen. Then it does. Many sincere paranormal investigators lament this. I can’t find one investigator, who isn’t serving financial motives or fame that can claim encountering a demonic force. The stories start out with lighter paranormal events and just exaggerate. As Bill Reap of Reap Investigation said on a recent episode:<br /><br /><br />“Oh that’s the ghost of Uncle Jimmy. He was a bad-ass in life. Always causing trouble . . . (a couple of ghost hunters and editors later) Oh Uncle Jimmy is a demon now!” This is from episode 85 REAPER of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror and Paranormal Show I did with <a href="https://www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/2018/10/bill-reap-of-r-e-a-p-investigations-interview/">Bill Reap</a>. Bill is the founder of the Pennsylvania paranormal investigation group, <a href="https://www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/2018/10/bill-reap-of-r-e-a-p-investigations-interview/">R.E.A.P.</a> and has been investigating ghosts for many years. In a recent interview for the show website, Bill shares his insight into how the ghost story has changed. “The classic ghost story has evolved into something more frightening. It has become very dark in nature, not to say ghost stories haven’t always been dark. There is more of a scare at their core or foundational scare.”<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cancer-fox.jpg?resize=186%2C248" /><br /><br /><br />When I approach someone who worked with one of these television shows, I am often treated with suspicion and apprehension. Many victims of hauntings see their involvement as financial windfalls, and they go off to write a book about their story, cashing in on a growing market. Their dreams come true when a cable channel asks them to tell their story, and they recklessly trust the producers with their reputations. They sit in some studio, narrate their experiences, giving credibility to the show, but they’re not shown the final version of the episode. Producers take liberties to dramatize their stories. They create events on the visual version that follow up the testimony of the authors, and the audience infers that these events are being told by the author. For example, the author can talk about a cleansing ritual being done—another common element in the pattern of story. They’ll end that particular narrative by saying something along the lines of ‘and you could feel the energy in the house fighting us.’ This close-up of the narrator then changes to the filmed scene of the actors. Doors slam. People are thrown about. Demonic faces gnash at the family. We assume the narrator confirms that these things happened. The authors have no idea this was added, and their credibility is wounded as skeptics rip into the exaggerated narrative. This is the blending of the ‘true story’ into the fictional narrative. True ghost stories aren’t entertaining and fall short of the complex narrative form that we’ve evolved, so to tell a good story, elements are changed to follow a specific pattern.<br /><br /><br />After interviewing many guests and reviewing television shows and books based on true hauntings, I’ve learned the common paradigms in each account. For the authors reading this article, these elements should form the basis of your narrative, though you should know where to vary in order to create a unique story. It always starts with a family of unsuspecting people moving in to some old house in a small town, either starting out a life or recovering from some destabilizing event such as divorce or flood. The family is usually innocent, casually religious and neither believes or disbelieves in the supernatural; though, by the end of the story, their emotional journey makes them into believers and opens their minds to a greater universe. Sometimes the spirits are triggered by the use of some ‘occult’ device such as a séance or dabbling into ‘black’ magic. That’s another classic trigger and usually operated by children or misguided adults. A series of small and unexplainable events begin to occur such as phantom footsteps, doors closing, strange voices that is shrugged off by the family. These then begin to escalate to reveal an evil presence seeking to harm the family. They present classic demonic elements such as shadow figures, claw marks, foul smells, threats of death, strange creatures, usually focusing on some young and vulnerable member of the family. At some point, a curious family member seeks answers and somehow finds specific evidence of tragedy about the property. Tragedy always gets the blame for haunted sites. Finally, driven by desperation, the family seeks the help of a paranormal investigation group that then comes in with their gadgets, gathers evidence and then announces the presence of a demon. The family is then referred to some religious group or element that comes in, does some sort of blessing or exorcism triggering a violent war. At the end of this cleansing, either the house is free of its possessing elements or the family is driven out. These stories thrive on discovery a clandestine logic that drives the haunting. That’s the mystery element of the ‘true’ haunting. Why is the spirit doing these things?<br /><br /><br />Nearly every dramatized ghost story follows this pattern. This is what the audience prefers: the classic battle of good and evil, fighting Satan’s soldiers! It’s all quite dramatic and compelling, but it is fiction. Cable peddles it as ‘true’, even though it can cause harm to families subject to real phenomenon. I keep hearing from serious ghost hunters how it has changed what they do, even endangering people who believe they are the subjects of a haunting. I talked to Bill about how cable television has changed the nature of paranormal investigation.<br /><br /><br />“The paranormal genre of television has really opened the belief in the paranormal. Life interprets art and influences the way that investigation is done. Television is sometimes mimicked. Sometimes it’s good sometimes not so good. I believe the media influences families responses because they have main-streamed the events and made it more acceptable. Some TV shows will pay to have those stories so we’re not always getting the full truth from some people, which is why the investigation side is so important. Does it make the situation more dangerous? That’s a two-sided question. The family itself can make things worse or an inexperienced team can make things worse and the family itself can also worsen the situation.”<br /><br /><br />As professional authors, we must be tuned into changes in the market. Ghostlore remains a popular and vibrant genre, and as such, it’s always evolving based on what’s popular with audiences. The genre has changed as the cinema and cable popularize the concept of the true ghost story, though often the final versions of these stories have been dramatized near to the point of fiction. If authors hope to contribute successful narratives to this field, they must be aware of the current trend of story elements audiences expect in the modern ghost story. Writing fiction inspired by Poe isn’t going to cut it anymore for the refined modern taste. Only stories based on narratives that possess specific elements and a verisimilitude will prove successful. Audiences don’t just want to enjoy a good ‘Boo’. They want to believe it too.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180610_103015.jpg?resize=407%2C305" /><br /><br /><br />BIOGRAPHY<br /><br /><br />T. Fox Dunham lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Allison. He’s a lymphoma survivor, cancer patient, modern bard and historian. His first book, The Street Martyr, was published by Gutter Books. A major motion picture based on the book is being produced by Throughline Films. Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality or Searching for Andy Kaufman, a book about what it’s like to be dying of cancer, was recently released from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing and Fox has a story in the Stargate Anthology Points of Origin from MGM and Fandemonium Books. Fox is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and he’s had published hundreds of short stories and articles. He’s host and creator of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show, a popular horror program on PARA-X RADIO. His motto is wrecking civilization one story at a time. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tfoxdunham">http://www.facebook.com/tfoxdunham</a> & Twitter: @TFoxDunham</div>
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The Affordable Care Act saves lives. It requires work, but to
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Because of the ACA, the poor and sick no longer need live in fear. </div>
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The #ACA was a
humanitarian breakthrough in equal healthcare. It removed restrictions that
inflicted suffering and financial hardship on sick and poor families. The act
ended discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions, which had
become a death sentence. You can no longer exceed a lifetime annual coverage
amount, which meant that once your healthcare cost x-amount, they could legally
just leave you to die. The ACA keeps #Medicare solvent through 2030. When the
act became law, the cost of healthcare dropped to its lowest rates in half a
century. In 2014, the number of uninsured adults dropped for the first time.
Fewer adults reported difficulties paying medical bills or had medical debt, or
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At 16, doctors diagnosed me with Lyme Disease. Two years
later, surgeons removed a malignant tumor from below my ear, initiating a
life-long battle with cancer. I need low medical costs to survive. I support
Admiral Joe Sestak for Senate because he fights to protect the ACA, to protect me
and my family. Joe will prevent the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. He got
into this fight because of his daughter, Alex. Like Alex, I was given a small
percent chance to live if I underwent intense chemotherapy and radiation that
would leave me struggling with medical issues and disability for the rest of my
life. In September, the cancer grew back in my neck. Surgeons cut it out. Now,
my wife and I wait. We worry over healthcare. Without the ACA, debt would
destroy our future, and I would become a second-class citizen. We wouldn’t be
able to afford even basic medications. </div>
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Allow me to explain our medical system in the west. Healthcare
comes down to three components: diagnosis, surgery and medication. Prescriptions
are the foundation of treatment. Recently, I fought with my insurance company
to get a medicine that would greatly ease my symptoms thus improving the
quality of my life. After several attempts and switching brands, wasting my and
my doctor’s time, we settled for an inferior version. If I had better
healthcare, my symptoms would be treated, and I would be a healthier member of
society, thus making the country stronger. Joe’s plan would permit Medicare to bargain
with the drug companies, lowering prices, saving Medicare 123$ billion by
2023.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would lower the prohibitive
costs of drugs for families by allowing people to import drugs from Canada, a
practice that has already saved $400 per person in states that have had to
wisdom not to punish their citizens with import restrictions. And finally, he
would end a criminal practice by drug manufacturers. I would have been able to
get those drugs if a generic brand was manufactured; however, drug companies
are paying their competitors to hold off on producing generics. This is called
‘pay for delay’, costing consumers and taxpayers 3.5$ billion every year. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">CEOs l</span>ike Frank Baldino of Cephalon are<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> far more interested in </span>“<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">patent-protection</span>” instead of “<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">patient protection.</span>”<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>He generated 4 billion dollars in
sales by paying off other competitors to keep generic forms of the sleep aid
Provigil off the market. He, like most Big Pharma, profit from negligence and
pain. It can’t continue. We need a change.</div>
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I don’t trust Pat Toomey with my family’s healthcare. Toomey
voted in December for a plan to phase out the Medicaid expansion for low-income
Americans. This would undercut healthcare for 430,000 vulnerable Americans:
working families, the elderly, pregnant woman who are single-moms, low-income
children as well as veterans. Toomey’s vote would have removed those Americans
from protections against pre-existing condition discrimination and “lifetime
limits” on cost of care. He even shut down the government to kill the ACA. As
an American fighting cancer for the rest of my life, I cannot trust this man
with my future and health. If he had been successful, I couldn’t have paid for
the lifesaving surgery I needed in September, thus widowing my wife before we
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Obamacare is not perfect, but it’s the first viable solution
presented in decades of debate and stalemate. The sick and poor don’t need to
suffer. We are better than this. As a wealthy country, we have the chance to
create a compassionate and great society. The ACA isn’t perfect. But less
people die. Less people suffer. And the quality of life for poor families has
improved. With study and adjustment made by the right people in office, it can
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<span abp="1411" style="font-size: large;">So my novel, Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality or Searching for Andy Kaufman, has been released from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. I didn’t realize this at the time, but Max Booth III is using my work to destroy reality. If all goes well, any foundation the human race has in its understanding of the world and universe will be entirely dissolved by Yule. I attack complacency. I offend arrogance. I animate stasis.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ATLANTA 2015 </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Hazardous Press Table with Jay Wilburn </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"> On May 7th – 10th, I will be co-hosting the Hazardous Press table with Jay Wilburn at the World Horror Convention in Atlanta. In addition to my duties there, I will also be doing two author’s panels and taking part of a mass signing. I look forward to spending time with my colleagues. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>From World Horror Con 2013 in New Orleans, Jay Wilburn and T. Fox Dunham</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, after my return, I will be marrying Allison Ledbetter on May 30th in Scotland. <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I will be selling my books down there. Promotion is part of my job as a professional, and it doesn’t come naturally to me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SELLING YOUR BOOKS: </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Easter dinner at the Phillip’s. My soon-to-be mother-in-law yells into the living room: “Fox, do you have a copy of your book on you?” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“What do you think?” I yell back and reach for my bag. <br /><br /> Always take a copy of your book with you wherever you go. Every single reader that meets you becomes a life-long fan. Engage them, intrigue and make them feel like that distance between successful artist can be reached. You will change their lives—and propel yourself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Publishers offer you copies at a reduced cost, and you need to have copies on you for book signings, public readings and just for when you meet people. I’m marrying into a large family, and I’m going to need at least twenty copies of my book for the wedding. <br /><br /> I do my best work face-to-face, hand-in-hand, eye-seeing-eye. Everyday I go to write, treating it like a 9-5 job, though often it is 10-10, since my fiancée works 12 hour days. I setup at Starbucks, Barnes and Nobles or Tabora Café and start hacking away at my deadlines. Always some terrible pressure or deadline I can’t miss that will make or break my career. I take out my laptop, get my coffee, then setup copies of my books in front of me on two racks so they’re standing up. That’s important, otherwise people think you’re just reading books. When you set them up, people know it’s something special, and they will come over to you to ask. Look up from your work, smile and just talk to them. Let them ask the questions. Don’t try to volunteer too much. <br /><br /> “This is your book?” <br /><br />“Yes it is.” <br /><br />“You . . . wrote this?” <br /><br />“I did, indeed.” (They’re always so surprised like published authors are a myth.) <br /><br />“Can I look at it?” <br /><br />“By all means.” That’s when I hit them with a bit about the book, a sentence or two, then I let them learn the rest on their own. Let them check out the story. Usually they’ll read the back and the first page. They see it a surprise opportunity and want to get the most out of it. <br /><br /> Then, my favorite part: While they’re reading it, I add, “It’s going to be a major motion picture.” And they just explode. “Really? Wow! Congratulations!” And that’s when you’ve really hooked them. <br /><br /> I’ve had people buy my book without knowing anything about it. They’re not buying the book really. They’re buying me. If I intrigue and engage them, I am promising them a compelling experience if they read my words. Like any classic salesperson, it’s all in the aspect, the look, the sound of confidence in my voice, the charm and spirit. They will expect to find it all in the words. <br /><br /> A few things happen now in the process. They will ask if that copy is for sale or if it is available as an e-book. Sometimes, they’ll have the book bought and downloaded before you answer on their phones. Or they’re handing you cash. Though, it’s good to have a Square with you. Very few people carry cash, and Squares can plug into a phone or an iPad. I’ve made a lot of sales because I had a Square, and they only take like 3 percent of the cost. It’s worth it. <br /><br /> It’s not the mass of readers that’s important. They’ll come if you treat every individual as important. I am fighting for my success and doing well, but I still get a thrill when a single stranger buys my book. I’ll never let myself lose that feeling. <br /><br /><br /> <span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="goog_1929197209"></span><span id="goog_1929197210"></span><span id="goog_1929197211"></span><span id="goog_1929197212"></span><span id="goog_398859089"></span><span id="goog_398859090"></span>SHADOWS OVER MAIN STREET EDITORS INTERVIEW:</span></span></b></span><br /><br /><span id="goog_1359295429"></span><span id="goog_1359295430"></span>One of the books I’ll be supporting down in Atlanta is a fantastic anthology that’s been topping the Amazon charts, Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror, put out by Hazardous Press. I have a story in this one, and it’s been a recent highlight in my career. I asked the editors a few questions. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mainstreetshadows.com/" target="_blank">SHADOWS WEBSITE! CLICKME!</a><br /><br /><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>So what was the inspiration behind the theme of this anthology? </b> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">D. approached Doug with an idea for a Lovecraftian mythos-Mayberry mash-up. After much discussion, Doug suggested broadening the theme to be a “small towns vs. cosmic horror” kind of thing. As we started reading the submissions, though, to our delight, we could see this was going to be a very different kind of collection. While there are plenty of mythos stories in the book, there are also some which only suggest the kind of cosmic horror Lovecraft is best known for. They kind of give you a sense of it without being explicit. And some of those tales are among the most powerful in the collection. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How did you start to work with Robert at Hazardous Press? </b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, we had an idea but no publisher. So we started shopping it around. A couple places really loved the idea but didn’t have time or room in their schedule. A couple others were very reluctant to take the project on at all, because, as they put it, “Anthologies don’t sell.” Looking at how the book is doing now, and the warm response it’s getting, we’re glad we didn’t listen to that particular piece of advice. <br /><br />At any rate, when we got to Robert at Hazardous Press, we explained that we wanted the book to be a pro-pay collection to achieve the quality of the stories we wanted. He loved the idea, loved the approach, and didn’t flinch at the terms, so we were off and running. Robert gave us the financial backing we needed and near total freedom to run with the concept, and we’re thankful for that. <br /><br /><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Did you foresee the book becoming so successful? Why do you think it’s doing so well? </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Since this was our first time putting together an anthology, we didn’t know what to expect, but no one takes on a project of this kind without believing it can soar. Going for the long shot and making a few waves...that was kind of our battle cry throughout the process, so we definitely had big things in mind for the book. <br /><br />Of course, setting out, we couldn’t have known how many of those hail Marys would actually connect for us. When they did, and the table of contents started coming into focus, though, we knew we had something special going on. From there, we really hoped that we could get it into as many hands as possible (and have hustled relentlessly to that end) because there are great stories in there--a wide range of voices from many, many talented authors. <br /><br />As to why it’s doing so well, we think people love them some Lovecraft, and (to our continuing amazement) we’ve managed to assemble a ridiculously talented lineup. The concept of small-town America, especially during the 40s through the 60s is something very familiar to a large number of us. Those too young to have lived it were still informed by pop culture depictions of it. The Outsiders, Happy Days, Leave it to Beaver, and...yes...The Andy Griffith Show all are firmly cemented in the American psyche. There’s so much to mine there. Turn over any small town and you get to see the dark side of it all. Introduce elements of horror and existential dread and you’ve got Shadows Over Main Street. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><br /><b>So what’s in the future? </b></span></span><br /><br /> Well, we still can’t shake the feeling that we crashed the party when it comes to producing and releasing this book, so we’re going to try to enjoy the ride because it’s a dream come true for both of us. That said, we’re going to keep co-editing anthologies, and do the best we can for as long as we can before someone taps us on the shoulder and kicks us out. In fact, we had hardly completed Shadows before we started the wheels turning on the next project. We’re still ironing out some details so it’s hush-hush for now. But we can tell you that in the very near future, we will be pursuing the beauty found in horror. It’s going to be ambitious, and we’re going to keep throwing the long ball. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>FRIDAY MAY 8th </b></span><br /><br /><b>11 AM-NOON</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Panel:</b> <span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><b>WHCFILM: Selling Your Scares To Screen: Ins and Outs of Options in Today’s Film Market – REDHOOK </b></span><br />Selling an option for your novel to be made into a motion picture may invoke visions of big bucks, but what’s the reality? Our panelists have sold at least one horror property or have experience on the development/sales side of the film industry. Hear their war stories and find out what you need to know when to opt in or out of an option deal. <br />Moderator: <i>Sabrina Kaleta.</i> Panelists: <i>John Dixon, T. Fox Dunham, Brad Hodson, Weston Ochse </i></span><i> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6:30PM - 8PM</b><br />Mass Author Signing at World Horror Con 2015. This event will take place Friday, May 8 from6:30-8 p.m. in The Barrens, the pace outside the main panel rooms and Dealers Room.</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>9-10 AM </b><br /><b>Panel:</b> <span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>TERRIFYING TROPES: Midmorning Madness: Making Insane Characters Believable – SARNATH </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />From classics like Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” to Stephen King’s Misery, to more contemporary works like Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, both film and literature alike have a soft spot for the insane. But what makes these characters believable and why do readers love a madman or a hysteric woman? Well, say hello to Tyler Durdan and get ready for a trip to the asylum because the first rule of madness is that we don’t talk about madness. And if it’s your first time going mad, well, then you have to scream. <br />Moderator:<i> Stephanie M. Wytovich.</i> Panelists: <i>Dale Bailey, Nicole Cushing, T. Fox Dunham, Lois Gresh, Sydney Leigh, Brian W. Matthews</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Lamplight Magazine is doing a subscription drive so it can pay its authors professional rates. So few markets are doing that now. Jacob is a buddy, so help out! I’ve got mine. <br /><br /> <a href="http://apokrupha.com/2015/02/05/lamplight-subscription-drive/" target="_blank">CLICK ME! FOR LAMPLIGHT</a></span>T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-22097122396565796062014-11-21T13:20:00.006-05:002014-11-21T13:20:56.941-05:00Mount Airy Reading<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">FOX READING DOCTOR KEVORKIAN GOES TO HEAVEN!</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">7PM at the <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=643722519050657" href="https://www.facebook.com/mtairyreadandeat">Mt. Airy Read & Eat</a>
bookstore and cafe on 7141 Germantown Ave in Philadelphia, PA. I will
be reading from Doctor Kevorkian Goes to Heaven along with a few
selected short stories. It will be an intimate and nice event. <a href="http://mtairyreadandeat.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://mtairyreadandeat.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-53020950019800469652014-11-03T21:33:00.000-05:002014-11-04T19:34:15.139-05:00WRITING NOIR FOR THE 21st CENTURY - NOIRCON 2014<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Noircon 2014 </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sat at Noircon—the noir crime author’s convention in Philadelphia this Saturday at the Society Hill Playhouse—and I worried I’d be discovered for the imposter that I am then thrown under a SEPTA bus on South Street by the seasoned and experienced Noir authors. I have not read Elmore Leonard and only seen a casual amount of the movies, and this is why you as noir authors need to listen to me now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noir has always been a side for me, though much of my horror blurs the boundaries. And this is why noir authors must listen to me. My lack of experience gives me a fresh perspective. I’m outside the clique, the mainstream of noir and crime fiction, and I’m coming at the genre from a unique point-of-view. Somehow I stumbled into this field with my first book, The Street Martyr. The book has been successful and is being made into a major motion picture by Throughline Films. I didn’t expect this for my first book. I wrote the book to teach myself how to write long fiction, a process I continue. I didn’t set out to write a crime-noir book. I developed a plot—something not related to horror as I had written too much of the macabre—and wrote it in a character voice, drawing upon my love of true mafia books. I wrote about true horror—drugs, poverty, exploitation of those who can’t defend themselves. This is what haunts me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lou Boxer invited me to sit on the panel for Existential Noir. I had no idea what this was, and I’m told that’s the heart of existential. We were blessed with our moderator, William Lashner, and sitting on the panel with me was K.A. Laity, Paul Oliver and Carole Mallory. We closed out the evening with our discussion, touching on the nature of God existing in a dark alley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the questions I was asked was about femme fatales and their place in existential noir. It was a legitimate question using old industry terminology; and that’s part of my point. I find the term to be sexist, outdated and part of a genre geared towards men. This is endemic of a genre trapped in the past, a dark style that is not joining a modern sensibility. Now, I do appreciate the old styles of the past in many ways and hope to preserve some of those qualities. The long hero, or anti-hero, hitting the streets, staying to the shadows and exploring what is darkest in the human heart will always have a place in the genre, but there are many elements that need to advance. The femme fatale is really a concept of love, the potential for transformation and redemption. It doesn’t have to be a female. The archetype goes back to the idea of Eve corrupting a pure Adam in the Garden, and really this could be anyone in love. The detective could be a woman and/or a homosexual. It’s about love verse selfish desire, about the hope to be lifted out of the darkness. It’s time to retire the term to bring noir into the next century. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What worries me is the esoteric nature of modern noir. Sometimes it feels as if we’re writing a tribute to the past like creating a museum exhibit. Something’s off. It’s confirmed by the lack of paying crime markets—and non-paying. When I do a search for horror on Duotrope, I have to sort through at least 100 dedicated journals and anthologies. I get maybe twenty crime markets, accept for those few literary and pulp journals that have added noir to their submission genres almost as an afterthought. Why isn’t this a popular market? There was a time when dime-store gumshoes were the popular hero. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At Starbucks today where I go to write when my fiancée works, I was asked where and when my book, The Street Martyr, was set. He expected a 1940’s detective story when I said it was crime novel and was surprised when I said Philadelphia in 2012. It almost didn’t seem like Noir to him unless it was cast in a specific setting. Have I written a thriller? Or is my novel about two low-level drug dealers who must solve a murder and bring street justice to a monster really noir? It is the heart of noir. Our detectives need cell phones. Our criminals should steal credit cards and hack bank accounts. We need a modern context for our gumshoes, or we will be left behind. So I advise that we let go of the past, though we can use it for inspiration. The spirit of the work is the same, just update it to the world around you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it was a lovely convention, educational and inspirational. I got to spend time with Lou Boxer. Lou and I have been trying to hangout for the last year now. Lou deserves the gratitude of the noir community for organizing Noircon and bringing us together. I appreciate the chance to be on a panel and speak my thoughts about the genre. I appreciated both the panels on politics in Noir and Jewish Noir, and I learned much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You can read Mark C. O’Connor’s write-up on Noircon 2014 at the Out of the Gutter website: <a href="http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2014/11/raining-in-philadelpia-noircon-2014.html" target="_blank">http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2014/11/raining-in-philadelpia-noircon-2014.html </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Carole Mallory's write up for the Huff Post:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fox upcoming appearances for November: </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Friday, 7th November - 7PM to 9PM:</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My writing seminar evening at the Lansdale YMCA talking about my experience as an author.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From Knightwatch Press and Editor T.M. McLean. This book has gone through a few different forms, and I was pleased to see it finally published. Tim’s a good friend, and it includes my zombie story, The Birthday Boy. Some odd and original stories in this collection. We need more zombie fiction! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So <a href="http://www.throughlinefilms.com/" target="_blank">Throughline Films</a>, a Chicago operation of some status, is filming my first novel The Street Martyr into a feature film. I still can’t believe it’s real. We read the emails from the producer, John W. Bosher, about movie the development process, and it feels surreal. It is the beginning of life, everything I’ve fought for, finally pulling myself out of this illness and disability. It is the break of a lifetime. Authors wait their whole careers for an opportunity like this to build their careers. I never saw it coming. None of this was intended. I am more surprised than anyone, though people don’t seem to be too surprised that I’ve made it this far this soon. I can’t tell. I don’t know if my work is good or bad. I dread reading my own work. I’m a partial perfectionist and a workaholic. I produced the Street Martyr in two months. When I edit my own work, I don’t see it from the fresh perspective of a new reader. I only see what it could be, what I’m currently not capable of writing. I see my work as incomplete, inchoate and underdeveloped, and I think: This will be rejected fast! Somehow, it’s not. All my work sells and is praised. I guess I owe that to my craft, though my spirit has suffered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t think a good author should know whether their work is good or not. We should just write from our hearts and depend on faith in ourselves. It’s better that way. I wrote the Street Martyr with no intentions, no great life plans to build a career. I just wanted to drop myself into new waters, to get away from horror and short fiction. It was meant to be an education, to train myself to write long fiction. I expected it to maybe be an eBook, get a couple of readers, impress the members of the noir community and then move onto something else, something I’d write better. The response has overwhelmed me, and what it is bringing into my life—great love, a future, a family—has shaken me to my core self-concept. I defined my book, and now it is redefining me. The books we write should always do this. A novel should be a journey of exploration and change for the author as much as it is for the reader. You can chart my life by my work: what I have seen and suffered. I write horror as a catharsis, and now the nature of my work is changing. Once I was the wizard of sad endings. My work summoned weeping. Now I am writing about hope. My work changes as I change, always a step ahead of me, a destination that I wish to reach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Always take on more than you can chew. Disturb your comfort zone. Overwhelm yourself a bit. Don’t just write what you’re capable of. Write more and worry you’re not going to make it. This effort will translate. Alyn Day, a dear friend and one of my sisters who started at the same time I did, fights to write her novella. She worries and suffers over it like a mother for her child. It is new for her, a bit beyond what she has been capable of, and this is why her book will be a success. She challenges herself to become more, and she will rise with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m working with John W. Bosher at Throughline Films as we prepare to adapt The Street Martyr into a feature film. They’re arranging funding with a company in Los Angeles. Throughline Films is a substantial production company. And reading his emails has been absolutely thrilling. A part of me still doesn’t believe this has happened, but I’ll handle it in a confident and professional manner. The uneven nature of my life has prepared me that anything is possible, and I will build on this, creating a good life. We have to use the opportunities that come to us. I know much of this is luck, being in the right place at the right time. I am being counted on. I have promises to keep, and I will turn this into something amazing. I don’t know if I’m ready or worthy of this, but I’m going run with it anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So a number of anthologies have come out since my last blog post. I should post more, but I don’t want to fill up the internet with a lot of chatter and detritus. To follow my short fiction, all you need do is type in my name, and a number of links will appear.<br /><br />State of Horror: New Jersey has been re-released through its new publisher, Charon Coin Press and Editor Jerry E. Benns. This was one of my early publications, and I was glad that it was being published a second time, given a new look and promotion. My story, Doctor Nightshade Comes to Ocean City, NJ has second placement on the table of contents. It’s about a cancer cluster in New Jersey, based on the Toms River tragedy. The misery and death summons a dark creature based on the Mothman legend which I also tied into the Jersey Devil. Many of these myths parallel and have roots in the same tradition.<br /><br />Here are some quotes from other stories in the book:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The door opened suddenly and a giant of a man stood in the doorway holding a shotgun, his beard bushy and his eyes wild. "Holy shit," Jack said and stepped back, falling into the mud and weeds in front of the house. "Mister Meyer?" Kendall asked slowly, hoping to God the madman with the gun was his friend's father. If not, they were in trouble. </span></div>
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cease to grow. Death is change, transformation. It is the motivation that has
compelled me to write—and live deep into the fabric of the universe. This is my
commentary on life, physician-assisted suicide in this life and the next,
stasis, humanity, heaven and time—all on the back of Doctor Jack Kevorkian
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing has had the
wisdom—madness and self-destructive motivation—to release my novella, Doctor
Kevorkian Goes to Heaven. I wrote this story out of love and admiration for one
of the great egotists and humanists of the current era; and already since his
death, most of the humans he sought to help have forgotten about the man or his
work. I have a proclivity of writing about forgotten eccentrics; ergo, my
upcoming book from PMMP: Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality or
Searching for Andy Kaufman. I like the obscure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me tell
you about writing this novella. As with all my long-fiction, I wrote it on a
fathomed and personal level; indeed, finishing the narrative cost my health and
energy. It will take me several months to recover. I am of poor physique, as
many of my fans and critics are aware, and writing a lengthy narrative costs me
in a finite currency that will never be replenished. I’m an isotope throwing
off neutrons, and I can only radiate my readers for so long. I have a limited
number of books in me, and once they’re written, I will deflate and collapse. I
convert my body and spirit into tomes as if I feed my limbs and organs to
hungry animals. So far, it has been a success, and this is the only kind of
writing I could ever have foreseen myself doing. I don’t see the purpose of
writing with any less passion or conviction. We all suffer diminishing and
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less is not worthy of the gift of life you have been given, the same gift that
is taken from so many everyday. Can you write this deeply? Can you create
something with such passion that it kills you a little each time? Commit to
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<span style="font-size: large;">American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, author,
composer and instrumentalist. Doctor Jack Kevorkian was a veteran of the Korean
war and later in life became the most famous and successful proponent of
physician assisted suicide and a patient’s right to die. He claimed that during
the years1990 to 1998, he assisted in the removal of 130 patients from this
world into the next world, much like a cosmic train conductor punching
passes—though he didn’t punch his patients. He injected or gassed them with
industrial chemicals to stop their hearts. He built his Mercitron—I feature the
Mercitron II in my book—from an Erector set he bought at a church rummage sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The state of Michigan labored several times to convict him
of murder, and Jack sought out the services of the illustrious attorney
Geoffrey Fieger to defend him, who became his Sancho through his homicidal
medical career. Geoffrey also appears as a character in this book, though I
must remind that this is fiction; and I write with appreciation and admiration
for their work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the state inflicted upon Doctor Kevorkian the most
punitive punishment: they stopped persecuting him. For a man with a messiah
complex, this is a sword through the chest. Where would Jesus be without the
Romans? Modern Christianity owes its symbolism, the crucifix and faith, more to
Pontius Pilate than it does to their prophet. In previous cases, Kevorkian
setup the apparatus and gave the patient the means to end their own suffering.
He understood what all effective civil resistors know: you have to provoke a
response. Thus, on September 17, 1998, Kevorkian himself administered a lethal
substance to Thomas Youk, 52, who was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig's
Disease, which he recorded and then showed on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, daring the
state to stop him. He refused proper representation at trial, and after a two
day trial, the Michigan jury found Kevorkian guilty of second-degree homicide.<sup> </sup>The
judge threw his skinny bum into prison. After spending eight years in prison,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For you to really understand the nature of this novella, you must know my story. This morning, I awoke in near-agony. My leg muscles twisted off my bone. My spine screeched the high notes on a knotted harp. It won’t let me sleep at night. Morphine makes it bearable, but it won’t indefinitely. Five months of radiation daily burned my neck and spine in an attack on lymphoma, and the damage left me crippled and continues to wreck my nervous system. The pain and damage may reach a unending and churning storm that never alleviates, removing any quality of life.</span></span></div>
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fusion of my love for both Mark Twain & Kurt Vonnegut—is a commentary on my
experience and my explanation. This is my suicide note, though not yet, and I
hope it doesn’t become necessary. I have the right to end my life with dignity
and the right to free myself of pain. Society will not be injured. Wars happen
all the time and people are murdered yet Burger King keeps slinging meat and
Target sells cheap Asian-slave-labor woven jeans. As an individual right and in
the hands of responsible doctors, this can be handled with rights protected and
without disabled people becoming expendable. I believe life is to be cherished,
valued and guarded, which is all the more reason why we must preserve it and
not mutilate it. It will be tricky, and great wisdom will have to be discerned
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few days ago, Bitten Press sent me the contract to obtain
the rights to my novel, Professional Detachment or The Eternal. It is to be my
second published book. The second written is a horror still under
consideration, and the fourth is my book about the lost son of Andy Kaufman for
PMMP. The Eternal may be my first long erotica—though I’d call it more a
literary romance with erotic elements. I have sold erotica before, including a
popular story included in Cleius Press’ Big Book of Orgasms, now on the shelves
at Barnes and Nobles (That was a thrill.) Yes. My porn is on the shelves of a
major book store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Doctor Cindy Rosethorn is a young oncologist whose world
just ended. She married one of her professors at Johns Hopkins, and he
dominated her life—twice her age. He took a job at the Hospital of the
University of Penn, where he get her onto the oncology staff. After moving, he
decided to trade up for a younger model, a nurse, divorces Cindy and is now
looking for an excuse to fire her, constantly scrutinizing her actions. She has
no home. She’s living in her office, and she’s suffering an ulcer. He comes
around and terrorizes her.</span></div>
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Timothy Fox, who is suffering from lymphoma. His prognosis is poor. Timothy
reaches out to his new oncologist. He can’t tolerate the distance doctors
create between themselves and their patients. I understand this well, and as a
lymphoma patient at Penn, I labored to shatter that distance, to become friends
with my doctors. Timothy enchants her, brings her out, and she falls in love
with him. Now she suffers an ethical dilemma. She’s too close to her patient,
but she knows, though denies it, that they don’t have much time together. And
if her husband finds out about her relationship to Timothy, it’ll be enough to
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<span style="font-size: large;">Writing erotica came naturally to me. I wasn’t trying to
write a sex story. I just wrote a literary piece and spent a larger percentage
of narrative on the acts of sex. I wrote a literary romance with the same plot
capacity—conflict, character, growth of spirit—that I would on any fiction
piece. The theme or erotica, horror, science fiction plays secondary to the
main elements of fiction, and this is one of the reasons for my success. I’m a
literary author writing in genres. Character and conflict come first in my
crafting. If it so happens to be a demon or a lonely doctor, then that’s the
genre element. Hemingway, Salinger, Capote are my primary gods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, there is a tricky element to writing erotica. The
goal is to solicit the same biological and emotional reaction that the act of
arousal and even sex does in person. Sex itself is a completely mental act.
Physical arousal is just late stage and not always even necessary. Sex ravishes
the mind, and this is where I good storyteller can master the lust and the
love. With my words, I can take your body and mind to new heights of physical pleasure and
love that could not be possible with the body. I have practiced this in the
past by telling merely stories to previous partners with no physical contact
yet achieving climax. (That be a bit personal, but I’m making a point.) If one
of my previous partners is reading this and remembers what I did . . . Cheers. (And I know you miss it!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a dance. Summoning sex in the mind with narration is a
sophisticated art and requires an understanding how the mind processes sex. A
careful and observant person, not completely self-absorbed, can learn this
process through watching and communication. It has different outcomes, but the
paradigm of mental sex I’ve found is quite often the same in humans.
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<span style="font-size: large;">So how does one narrate arousal and sex without the element
of physical closeness, sans the body connection? Most of sex is about seeing,
tasting, listening, breathing? Some of the narrative is going to be reference
to the reader’s previous sex acts, what they’ve learned and experienced. Part
of the sexual response to the narrative is going to be a replay like dreams.
However, there is a plenty of room for new experiences also—the script to
fantasies. In good fiction, we become the characters. We feel what they feel,
so a conduit is already created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, it’s a matter of ceremony, of arousal and buildup, just
like any plot or compelling scene. I gained much of experience while engaged in
long-distance relationships, employing chat to pursue mutual acts of making
love with a distant partner. Some of those experiences were more powerful than
the actual physical act. It is a buildup of need and even desperation. Both
partners are responsible for narrating their own bodies and how they interact
with your body. You respond and engage back, building a circuit, arousing the
other, building up those wonderful hormones. The narrative begins with the early
acts of arrosual, such as kissing, touching, removing of clothing. Descriptions
of the body then follow, taking the place of the eye. Other senses are replaced
by those words. This is vital to building the narrated sexual act. This is held
in the mind’s eye, and concrete details empower these lines. We describe the
response of our aroused bodies, quite different between men and women. We
proceed with foreplay then engage in an interactive act. Each side usually
takes turns, describing their actions and response. This builds, and there are
key code words to represent real corresponding elements such as climaxing.
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cyber sex with an enthusiastic partner. This is where I learned the art, and
I’ve applied my literary passion and style to the narrative with great success.
Study and watch what your partner says, and hopefully they have some acumen.
Many steady relationships in the physical world depend on sort of role-played
sexual connection online with distant relations, so you will see many varieties
of prose employed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book will be out soon, and I hope you’ll yield something
I wish I knew at the time of writing an erotica: don’t write erotica in a
public place like a coffee house. Your own erotica should be stimulating you,
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<span style="font-size: large;">After much gnawing and gnashing of teeth, we my editor defeated our distributor and discovered what the delay with the release of the Street Martyr. I am relieved to announce that it is now available for download on kindle and will soon be available online and through book stores as a paperback.</span></div>
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poets and spoken word performers of all kinds to come read their words.
There will be refreshments provided and some live music. This event is
free and uncensored in a respectful atmosphere. We will be collecting
canned goods for Manna to help stock their food pantry.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These last few weeks, I’ve grown so
ill. My doctors are using scary terms like malignancy and platelets, and I lay
on the couch with my head pushed deep away, and I consider what I’ve given to
the world—what would be my gift, my legacy if I am overcome. I grant you
Vincent and Louie—the two old unforgettable morons that represent the best in
the human species. </span><br />
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sitting here with me now at Molly’s. Vincent is hung over the bar, pushing back
his greasy dark hair. He’s wearing an old blazer that reeks of pot smoke and
mildew. The fall air still warms, and he’d sweat in his leather jacket;
however, winter is coming with a promise of a Nor’easter that will sweep away
predatory priests and mob kings. His old companion and bane Louie sits next to
him on the barstool, except he has to lean up on his elbows to keep eye level
with Misty, the blond chemistry student that slings whiskey sours to the lads
as they drink and try to figure out how they’re going to stay alive for another
week. Vincent’s mom dies of cancer, and Louie’s mom took off years ago, leaving
him to fend for himself.</span></div>
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in the corner of the bar, eating chicken gumbo and sipping on a screwdriver. I
can’t take too much liquor. My body would never suffer it; and I keep spying on
the guys. Misty brings them another shot. Louie grins like a fucking idiot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Thanks
Baby,” Louie says. Most of his hair has fallen out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You call
me baby one more time, I’m going to drive that shotglass up your ass and catch
it when it falls out of your pug nose.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Louie
grins. “That’s sexy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vincent
roles his eyes. If Louie keeps it up, they’ll be thrown out of another bar.
They’ve run out of dives on South Street, so today they drove down to Lansdale
to scout out a Rite Aid that’s said to have a shitload of pills. I can’t help
but watch, catching glances while sipping from my screwdriver. Finally, Louie
spots me. He looks self-conscious, pulling back the few strands of hair he has
left down over his bald spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Don’t you
two wankers let me down,” I say back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I put my
life into you,” I tell them. “If I’m dying—and it will come sooner than later,
then you are what I leave the world. You two dumb asses."</span></div>
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Vincent says, breaking his usually calm demeanor, which surprises me. “I make
do with what God gave me. He sent my soul to the gutter, and now my mother is
sick. This is what I’ve got. Don’t feed me any of that shit about the American
dream, about making myself a better person. I don’t take care of my mom, she
dies.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“But you’re
a drug dealer,” I say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’m a
noble hero. I live in the real world, not your Greek Tragedy shit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Hey,”
Louie says. “Lay off of him. He does the best we can. We all do. Fucker.”
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<span style="font-size: large;">Louie fists
the metal bars he’s known for. They’ll pack his punch to make up for his small
size. He looks like a smurf, but Louie’s a killer. That’s how I wrote him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vincent
eyes me good, like he’s checking out my ass. I flush a bit, then he cracks a
grin. He scratches at the chains hanging from the piercings in his face. “Nah
Louie. Lay off the guy. Don’t you get it?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I get that
I’m going to pulp his damn skull,” Louie says, rolling his shit in his fist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vincent’s
face burns red, and he laughs until he’s gasping. He even knocks over his empty
glass, dumping ice on Misty’s feet. She growls at him, ready to smack his head.
“Don’t you get this shit?” Vincent asks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Louie drops
his weight in his pocket, and I’m spared a good thrashing. “You’re fucking
drunk, dude.” Vincent cracks up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“What?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We’re all
he’s got! Shit! He doesn’t know how much time he’s got left, and we’re going to
represent his soul when we’re gone. Oh shit. This is too fucking funny.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finish my
screwdriver, drinking the last of the bitter liquor off the ice. It’s all my
stomach can handle, and I’m letting down my legendary title—Long Island Fox.
That was me and Max in New Orleans. He was Hurricane Max, and I was Long Island
Fox. Those memories comfort me so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I start to
laugh with my boys. I’ve given them life, and they’ve returned it; perhaps,
it’ll be enough to carry me through. “Buy this asshole a drink!” Vincent yells.
“He needs it.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Misty sets
me up with another screwdriver. It’s on the house. “The House always wins,” I
say, quoting from the book I’d just finished for Bitten Press—a
romance-literary-erotica fox specialty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“So what
the fuck are you worried about?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I laugh
with them and drink down my vodka-and-orange juice. I’m a lightweight drunk, so
I’m already pretty buzzed. Before leaving, Vincent kisses my check, and his
silver chains strike my skin. Louie comes up to give me a hug, but then he
switches his arms then punches my head—light. It’s a love tap. I know, because
he hasn’t used his weights. I toppled over on the floor, and Vincent drops some
narcotics in a white envelope on me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Oh the . .
. House,” he says. “You’re going to need them.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Shit,” I
say, thinking of what’s coming, what I’m facing. “Thanks, you couple of
beautiful fuckups.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The party officially starts at 3PM, where I’ll be opening ceremonies with a bit of poetry and some fox-thoughts. Tabora Café is a wonderful coffeehouse and bakery. Also, it sports some of the best local wines and even lavender ice cream! It’s quite tasty, like eating a sweet bar of soap. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: red;">**</span>I’ll be reading from The Street Martyr periodically through the event, along with some of my other work, short stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">**</span>Local and upcoming artist, Amy Rims will be live painting work from our new project together with Hazardous Press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">**</span>Local young musician Becca will be playing her guitar and singing for us for a few sets. I discovered her on the streets of Lansdale, playing her heart out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">**</span>And Zack M comes with some stories and masks. He’s a talented storyteller.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s going to be quite a day. The Street Martyr will be on sale for 13.95. I do have a square, so I can accept cards. We come prepared! I’ve already sold a ton of pre-orders and early reader copies. Several five star reviews have been posted on Amazon, and I’d love it if you posted a review for me—as long as it’s honest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of July, Gutter Books flew me out to San Francisco for the West Coast Release party for the Street Martyr and Will Viharo’s Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me. I hit that city like a comet, seeing everything I could. The party was amazing, and Will and I blew the roof off the place with our readings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the day after the party, Tom Pitts picked me up and took me into his family. Tom will always be a brother, now. He showed me the heart of the city, and I am grateful to him. We’ve become close friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">Cellar Door released through James Kirk Ward Publishing</span>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Editor Sydney Leigh</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Late in the summer, I had the good fortune to be included in an anthology edited by Sydney Leigh—Cellar Door. What attracted me to this anthology was the involvement and enthusiasm of Rose Blackthorn. She and I have moved in similar circles for some time. Sydney had a mission to try to include many new authors, even giving them their first publication in this book, and I admired how she worked with them, helping to get their stories edited. This is why I choose to support the project. This is a fine and spirited collection of short stories, flash fiction, photographs and artwork, including my short story that finishes the collection. I am pleased to be a part of this collection and to support so many new authors. They’re the lifeblood of the industry. I am happy to announce that my story was picked for one of two editor's choice awards, and I am donating my to the Children's Cancer Fund.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cellar-Door-Beauty-Terror-Volume/dp/0615874975/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1380167378&sr=8-2&keywords=The+Cellar+Door">BUY THIS COLLECTION AT AMAZON!</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So I hope to see many of you at the party!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Friday, I get on a plane and fly across the continent
to the city of San Francisco. I join there Will Viharo, for our book release
party. It’s this Saturday, July 27th 2013, 7PM at <b><i>The 50s Mason Social House</i></b>.
It’s an incredible venue, and I am thrilled to be reading my first novel there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ll be reading from my book, <span style="color: red;">The Street Martyr</span>, and Will
Viharo will be reading from his book, <span style="color: red;">Love Stories are too Violent for Me, A
Pulp Novel</span>. I couldn’t have asked for better companions in this journey.
Matthew Louis has been a wise and patient editor at Gutter Books, and he’s
given me so much. You must understand, I never expected any of this. This was
my first novel, a learning experience, and I wrote it to practice and perhaps
earn the admiration of such hard-boiled greats as Joe Clifford, Paul D. Brazil, Tom
Pitts, and the rest of those bums whom I admire so. Then, if it got accepted by
Gutter Books, I figured it would be a nice POD, something I could point at,
sell a few copies, then move on. Little did I realize that Matthew Louis was
lurking in the water, ready to take the bait. I thought I was fishing for him.
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<span style="font-size: large;">For all you authors out there hoping to emulate my
experience, I say this. And I can’t stress this enough. Work hard. Learn your
craft. Practice. Finish your work, even if you hate it. Overcome obstacles and
move beyond defeat and disappointment. This is vital to your work and success.
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much of this is luck. Being at the right place at the
right time. It just so happened that Matthew Louis was ready to take Gutter
Books to the next level. I had published a flash fiction piece with them, Kid
Louie, which they called one of their best in eight years, so I decided to base
a novel off of it. So, I work for two months, figuring out long fiction. I do
some reading edits. Max Booth III gives me a good read. I edit. I submit. I
plan patience. I figure they’ll get back to me in 4-6 months. 4 days later,
Matthew accepted. He waited. He watched. He searched for the right book, the right
voice, something different, literary, a new scope in a stale genre. Like two
free flying protons in a great universe, randomly we collided. Now, Gutter
Books is flying me out to San Francisco, and we’re engaged in promotion. It’s
happening. And it’ll be in book stores, not just POD. It’s beyond any of my
expectations.</span></div>
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YOUR BOOK TO SUCCEED:</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t know Matthew. I thought I’d end up in the hands of
Joe Clifford. I was unsure. I was handing him one of the most important works
of my life—and it’s not going to be a long life. He began edit strategies, and
I had no clue at that point that he would be asking miracles of me in the next
few months. He wanted to make some changes, and I appreciated that. What the
hell do I know? It’s my first book. I’m considered a horror author, and I’d
only had a few stories published in crime lit. Still, I didn’t know him. And
then I read some early dialogue and description he wrote for Louie, based on my
character synopsis. Gods. He nailed it. He knew the character. He loved him a
little. He had it down, and I realized then how much he loved and was committed
to this legend. That’s when I knew we were going to create something beautiful
and repugnant, and that if I jumped off a cliff, he’d be going down with me.
This kind of relationship between an editor an author is vital to creating a
masterpiece. We had it. I knew that when I was reading his notes while riding
to Peace Valley Park to fish that night.</span></div>
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to the bitter repugnant end. If you don’t, then something isn’t working.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have to trust your editor to see what you can’t see, to
give you the distance you can never have with your book. Matthew began to
slaughter my book, and I gave him my blessing. He knew the market, the genre,
the theme. I was an upstart, a stranger, an imposter. Yet, it was vital to him
that we preserve the literary element to the novel. He said that’s what made it
so special, so unique and brilliant. I had taken a stale genre and given it
literary life. He said my descriptions alone captured a dark and decaying
spirit of Philly. Horror and crime merged in atmosphere and character. Yet, it
was too literary for the audience. I had internalized too much. This is my
weakness. I’m chronically ill. I overcompensate. It’s my greatest writing
weakness. I’m sure many authors understand this: the fear we’ve not been clear
or we’ve not emphasized a point. Matthew trusted me to be a professional and
cut the material. And we did. We worked out each issue. Matthew always explained
that he was OCD, far more than other editors. I worshiped him for it. I was so
grateful to have an editor that would got hung up over a single detail or
nuance. I was blessed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If an editor has not hacked your book to shreds and argued
with you over the salient points . . . if the editor has not inflicted agony on
your writing soul . . . if you’ve not been compelled to debate most lines and
writing choices . . . and if you’re not missing at least a fifth of your
narrative after the first editor read . . . then . . . there’s something wrong
with your editor-author relationship. I get worried when an editor hands me
back a story and says, "Oh. It’s fine Fox. Going right in." That’s just not part
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<span style="font-size: large;">So then Matthew decides we need to extend the plot. He wants
to exploit more drama with one of the characters, and I see the potential. As a
literary novel, The Street Martyr’s ending worked well, but we were writing for
Hardboiled crime audience as well. He had some brilliant thoughts on extending
the ending, and to do so, we had to cut the last few chapters and write new
ones. After we worked out the new plot, I framed the new material at about 13,000
words. That’s a fifth of novel at least. Oh. I had two days to write it, since
I was going to New Orleans for the WHC in June. You see, we had to fill in a
slot for the release party and with the distributor. What Matthew was asking me
to do was unheard of, impossible, fecking nutz! It couldn’t be done! That’s all
he had to say to me. Remember, I’m the fox that beat an unbeatable cancer for
the first time, defied death and built a career from nothing. Matthew knew just
what to say to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A good editor can play you like a master musician on a
violin. He or she knows how to motivate you, how to walk you to the edge of the
cliff then walk you back. They are part reader, worker, editor, promoter, wet
nurse, and psychologist. If you don’t have this relationship, re-evaluate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was insane. And I had to calm myself down a bit. I walked
back and forth in front of Taboras Café in Lansdale where I was writing that
Saturday. That Monday, I started at Barnes and Nobles in North Wales, PA. I had
to lock myself down. I had a flowchart for the plot, and I went to work. I knew
I could do it. And I did. 13,000 words down in two days. The book was complete.
I’d be doing reading edits on the plane and in New Orleans, but the hard part
was done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Matthew has been diligent and brilliant taking care of all
the production work. He has foreseen every problem and managed the development.
We have been partners. I’m told this book was his baby. He’s taught me a great
deal. My priest. My father. My brother. My Editor.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Vincent Grant lives on the edge. He gets by pushing stolen prescription
drugs to high school kids, his mother is dying of cancer, and his
business partner, the diminutive "King Louie," may up and kill him, or
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apartment. But when the priest is found brutally murdered, life as
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Links to an interview with Will Viharo, my partner in
this. Will’s been amazing, and he’s worked so hard through his life, keeping
the faith. He’s just the right man I want standing with me.</span></div>
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T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-72882397865838140102013-06-15T18:37:00.002-04:002013-06-15T18:37:29.207-04:00Lori Michelle SigningIt's a slow evening at the convention as every prepares for the banquet. Not me. I'm out for a night and the tour. Lori Michelle is signing books at the Hazardous Press table.<br />
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<br />T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-18359562705456554552013-06-15T15:07:00.004-04:002013-06-15T15:07:41.859-04:00Good Afternoon on Saturday at New Orleans-WHCThe day is speeding by, and we're talking to many authors and editors at the table. Some great panels today, and we're looking forward to seeing the city tonight. Such a gorgeous city, alive with music.<br />
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LE. White is signing books right now with us at the Hazardous Press Table.<br />
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<br />T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-77775995165522637582013-06-15T13:50:00.000-04:002013-06-15T13:51:14.085-04:00Saturday Morning at the WHC in New OrleansToday is really the heart of the convention. Tonight is the famed Bram Stoker's awards dinner to name some truly deserve people in the industry. Today, many of the people who couldn't come in during the work are riding in today, so it's been a fun day meeting and greeting. We had Dane Hatchell signing this morning, and he's an amazing guy. His book, Mind Hemorrhages, is out now from Hazardous Press.<br />
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I got to spend some time with Joe McKinney, a great author. I was thrilled to meet him. It turns out he released a book with Gutter Books, who is publishing the Street Martyr in the summer and has worked with my editor Matthew Lewis. We're publisher buddies! Joe is one of the amazing people I've come to know here in New Orleans.<br />
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And later, The Voodoo museum and the vampire tour with Max Booth III and Lori Michelle. I'll be updating more later.<br />
<br />T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-3685383543752813672013-06-14T18:10:00.001-04:002013-06-14T18:10:26.202-04:00Evening Friday Night at the WHC<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Night is drawing on here at the World Horror Convention 2013
in New Orleans. Our signing schedule is continuing, and Mark Scioneaux signed
copies of Family Dinner. We enjoyed his company. He’s one of the many excellent
authors signing at the Hazardous Press Table here at the World Horror Con.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Signing now is Armand Rosamilia with his new book,
Creeping Death, an anthology of short stories. “It’s some of my favorite
stories that have been printed before or never been published, he says. I’ve
been looking forward to meeting Armand, fellow author and editor of Rymfire
Books, publisher of the US State horror series. I’m in the PA State of Horror
and the NJ Horror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We’ll be closing in a little bit and opening tomorrow.
And tonight we enjoy the city. More pics coming soon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Afternoon creeps along at the WHC in New Orleans. We’ve meet
some great authors, and we’re selling a lot of books. Andrew S. Fuller just
stopped by. I was honored to meet him. He’s the editor of Three-Lobed Burning
Eye. It’s one of the longest standing horror magazines in print, since 1999. It’s
set a new standard for publishing in a frantic time as markets are born, live
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T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-58493849734622772432013-06-14T11:30:00.000-04:002013-06-14T11:30:10.106-04:00Good Morning New Orleans<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good morning New Orleans and the World Horror Convention.
New Orleans is an amazing city at any time, and last night after the convention
shut, Lori Michelle, Max Booth III and myself went on the town for dinner. This
city denies you sleep, not out of noise or distraction, but because you don’t
want to sleep. The city is a constant insomniac, and why should it ever sleep?
The music never stops. People filled the streets through the night in states of
excitement—and clothing. We passed several ladies in various states of dress,
and it blended into the background in a dark and erotic atmosphere that added
the rich flavor of the streets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This morning, before setting up here at the dealer’s room, we
walked down to find a proper cappuccino in size outside of the hotel, and we
spent some time with Tina McKinney, Joe McKinney’s—famed horror author—wife.
She was lovely, and she’s here with her family. We returned with cappuccino and
began greeting authors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just spent time talking with James Chambers. He’s head of
the membership committee of the HWA, and we talked about professional standards
for publishers. I’ll be writing more about that later. He had to run off for a
panel. We’ve been discussing the new frontier of e-publishing and how important
it is to maintain professional standards yet also allow new publishers time to
grow without killing them.</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">James Chambers holding Max Booth III's new book, They Might Be Demons. James is chair of the HWA membership committee. </span></b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I’ll keep you updated. Keep checking back! And leave some
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T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178753025767949968.post-88845624083462509692013-06-13T22:26:00.001-04:002013-06-13T22:26:10.332-04:00Friday Night at the World Horror Con in New Orleans<span style="font-size: small;">The night is going fast, and we've been talking to many authors, editors and readers. Mandy DeGeit has just blown in like a tornado, looking for beer and meting friends. She's just gone through two panels, or they've gone through her. I'm quite charmed by the illustrations decorating her agile arms, reminding me of an excited Illustrated Woman from Ray Bradbury, though I doubt Ray Bradbury could ever dream up a thunderstorm like her. She's handing out her bookmarks, and a fellow just came up and she handed him one and said, "You need a f*cking bookmark."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We've been talking tonight about the world of publishing and the changes that have happened as the internet changes this industry. Many authors here tonight are coming back to writing, and they will need to learn all the rules again and protocol. We've talked about professional publishers and the string of vanity publishers or publishers who start with good intentions then slowly lose their energy and devotion as they are hit by the slow long burn of promotion. Steady publishers are successful. They take their time, buy a few manuscripts every year, and they continue to promote those books over the years, keeping a steady fire burning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The night is slowing down, but we'll be keeping you updated through the weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And to quote Mandy: "Bitches!"</span>T. Fox Dunhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165946585016320760noreply@blogger.com0