Move over, Beatniks, here are the Bizarros! Four of the leading members of the hottest new literary movement in America will be reading from their at 7 pm, Thursday, July 10, at 1854 W. North Avenue in Chicago, in beautiful Wicker Park. Come meet and hear Bizarro Fiction writers Eckhard Gerdes, D. Harlan Wilson, Garrett…

Rod Lott over at Bookgasm seems to really have enjoyed Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word. This paragraph in particular cracked me up: One of the more entertaining pieces has Warner dissecting dialogue from an early draft of Brian Keene’s CITY OF THE DEAD and the published version of J.K. Rowling’s HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER…

It appears that there was a feature article on Harold Jaffe recently at the San Diego Tribune website. Here’s an excerpt: “As a writer, he’s a provocateur. Jaffe holds up a dark mirror to American society and what he sees is its fixation with crime, violence and sex. In his latest novel, “Jesus Coyote,” he…

You can now follow all the developments of the making of Dustin LaValley’s Party Girl by friending this myspace: http://www.myspace.com/eggfilm Did I mention that John will be a victim in the movie? That alone is pretty much priceless!

gdb Originally uploaded by earsphere722. We’re starting an imprint to do non-fiction titles called Guide Dog Books. My cousin made some cool logos for it and this is one of them. There’s a web site which will be up soon and there’s already a MySpace page. More info soon… Don’t forget Mike Arnzen is chatting…