The sexy undead and other literary notes

Updated.

The only royalty this blogger bows to, The Countess, is guest posting at The Deadly Vixens under her pen-name Elizabeth Black.  Her post includes an excerpt from her erotic short story, "The Mud Licker."  The Countess' story appears in a new anthology called Like A Myth, which is available as an e-book or in pdf format.

Two other stories by the Countess have been published in an e-book anthology called Monster Mash and if you go over to The Deadly Vixens tonight and leave a comment on the Countess' post you might win a copy of Monster Mash.

Which reminds me, The Countess isn't the only blogger on my blog roll with happy publishing news.

Susie Bright has edited a new anthology of erotica called, simply and directly, X: The Erotic Treasury .

Tom Watson's CauseWired has gone into a third printing.

The blonde has pounced on my copy of Mark Sarvas' novel, Harry, Revised , and says she won't give it back until she's done reading it.  But she reports she's enjoying it and that she thinks Mark is an excellent writer.

Chuck Tryon's  Reinventing Cinema won't be out until July but you can pre-order from Amazon now.  Chuck's blog is here.

Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War by Dennis Perrin has been out since last July and it's about time I gave it and Dennis a shout out.

Phronesisaical's helmut, aka Professor Tom Hilde,  is the editor of the essay collection On Torture , which includes contributions by Tom, Barbara Ehrenreich, Tzvetan Todorov, Alphonso Lingis, Ariel Dorfman, Rebecca Wittmann, Darius Rejali, Carlos Castresana, Adi Ophir, and others.

Back to the erotic.  Greta Christina has edited Best Erotic Comics 2008 .

Back to fiction.  Neil Gaiman and Ken MacLeod---Hey!  They're on my blog roll.---have newish books out.  Neil's is The Graveyard Book and Ken's is The Night Sessions .  Laura Lippman published a collection of short stories, Hardly Knew Her , in October.

Moving over to non-fiction.  Their books came out last year but you should still check out John Clayton's Cowboy Girl and Steven Hart's The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway .

John's blog is here and Steve's is here.

Ok, who have I left out?  Lots of folks, I'm sure.  Seems like everybody has a book contract.

Everybody but me.

Sigh.

Hey.  Any editors or agents out there?  I know of a really great collection of short stories just waiting for a home.

Writers among you, drop me a note about your book/books and I'll add you to the list.

Update:  Tim Susman dropped me a note to remind me about his sci-fi-fantasy novel, Common and Precious

Comments

[The Countess]

Thanks so much for the link, Lance. The contest is closed now, but I included buy links on my blog. "Like A Myth" is actually available for sale now. That was fast! I thought it was coming out around January. Well, it's halfway through December, so that's "around January".

Good luck on your own publishing venture. Once you get that first acceptance, you'll be floating on cloud nine.

[cali]

"We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. So let's mount a book-buying splurge. Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. Buy the rest of your Christmas presents, but that's just for starters. Clear out the mysteries, wrap up the histories, beam up the science fiction! Round up the westerns, go crazy for self-help, say yes to the university press books! Get a load of those coffee-table books, fatten up on slim volumes of verse, and take a chance on romance! There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves. Stockpile children's books as gifts for friends who look like they may eventually give birth. Hold off on the flat-screen TV and the GPS (they'll be cheaper after Christmas) and buy many, many books."

~ Roy Blount, Jr. "Buy Books From Your Local Bookstore, Now" via the Authors Guild

[Chuck]

Thanks for the shout out. According to my publisher, the book may come out a few weeks earlier than that, but I'll be sure to keep everyone posted.

[Steven Hart]

May Kris Kringle put a book contract in your stocking, Lance.

[Apostate]

At your age and with your accomplishments, you don't need writing advice.

But still, something I just read made me think of this post.

I've read tons of writing advice and even to think of reading any more writing advice bores the hell out of me, but I found this compelling.

Useful, even. Perhaps because it's so honest and unpretending.

[Lance]

Apostate,

Nobody's ever too old or too accomplished that they can't benefit from advice, especially me. Thanks for the link.

[john clayton]

Thanks for the plug, Lance! The published version of "Cowboy Girl" turned out to be exactly the book I had hoped to write -- though as usual, the writing is more fun than the publishing.