“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features Don P

  Meet Don. Don has been subsisting on red-eyes and gallows humor for over thirty-five years.  For the past five, he’s tried to channel  that caffeine and witty cynicism into his short stories and flash fiction.  He’s been published at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Fantasy Magazine, Reflection’s Edge, and other places. Aimee Bender wrote, “I want to be violated by insight.” … Read More

Smackdown

  This is Simon C. Larter.  He’s Scottish.  He’s adorable. He’s going to cry like a little girl when I beat him at our current contest.  Our goal is to make some major headway on our current WIPs.  He’s planning to write 5,000 words a week.  I’m planning to write, edit, and polish one chapter a week.  Do you know … Read More

Die, Protagonist, Die. I Don’t Want You To Ever Be Happy.

So I’ve been reading books lately.  Good for me. The problem is that I totally hated a couple of the books that I read.  Why?  Unlikable protagonists. I had a hard time rooting for the main characters when I found them to be…despicable is far too harsh of a word.  Unlovely. Whiny and selfish. I didn’t want them to get what they … Read More

“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features Kirsty Logan

Kirsty would like to let you know that her name is not Kristy or Kirsten. She lives with her girlfriend in Glasgow, in a tenement flat full of guitars, half-read books, and chandeliers. Kirsty plans to spread herself across the entire internet: she blogs, Twitters, Facebooks, edits flash fiction magazine Fractured West, reviews music for Wears the Trousers, and writes … Read More

Behind-The-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience

First off, I looked up and down trying to find out if I’m allowed to post these pics online.  I don’t see anything that says that I’m not, but I’m ready to pull them if necessary.  Lil’ ole me abides by the rules. I know this was a very controversial exhibit.  I was worried that it might be rife with … Read More

“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features L. L. Soares

L.L. Soares’s fiction has appeared in such magazines as Cemetery Dance, Horror Garage, Bare Bone and Gothic.net, and anthologies such as THE BEST OF HORRORFIND 2, TRAPS, and RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART. His story “Second Chances” received an Honorable Mention in the sixteenth edition of THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling. He is … Read More

Death, Destruction, Mayhem, and Murder

Gotta say it’s right up my alley. Tomorrow the LAPD is putting on an exhibit at the Palms casino featuring evidence from some of the most high-profile crimes in the last 100 years.  They’ll be showing the knife and cardboard sheath from the Skid Row stabbing murders, Robert Blake’s pistol, pictures, guns, and the infamous fork from the Manson family Tate-LaBianca killings, … Read More