Darin Bradley is all over this page, so I’m going to stop identifying him every time I have to mention him. If you don’t know him by now, you haven’t been paying attention (and judging by our traffic numbers, you haven’t!).
And I’m going to start responding to the things he says over on Suvudu, where he has begun a new blog series about the Pox Eclipse in all its myriad forms.
This first post is just a hello, so we’ll see what happens next. I’m not above a little recreational trolling …
Drollerie Press has announced a new 31-day digital author conference called CoyoteCon. Farrago-founder and novelist Darin Bradley will be a part of a chatroom discussion with Lucy Snyder on May 14 about “The Book Deal and Publishing Process.” Drop by.
The question about whether zombies can be made sexy seems to be more or less settled, and apparently was even at the time of our initial discussion.
My movie site of choice, CHUD.com, has a snarkier-than-thou update on an upcoming movie adaptation of another in what is apparently a mini-trend of zombie romance novels. Not of the Shaun of the Dead style, but in which the undead are objects of love and lust.
So … there’s that.
Farrago and F.M.I. contributor Mark Teppo may have qualms about self promotion, or maybe he’s just too busy creating quality posts and fiction to bother.
Whichever it is, all F.M.I. readers are required to buy his latest novel, Heartland. If you don’t, you’re forbidden from reading our site any more. In fact, you’re banned from the Internet. Yes, we have that power.
The author has kindly provided a suggested soundtrack to the book, for those of you like me who require a constant influx of stimulus through every functional stimulus-gathering apparatus.
Update: You can also read Teppo’s thoughts on faith and its role in Heartland on John Scalzi’s The Big Idea, posted moments after I posted this.
Interviewer’s Note: On behalf of Farrago’s FMI, I recently had a chance to sit down with a local nonfigure, as he calls himself, Slade St. John. Slade runs a micro-press on the side and dabbles—more than dabbles, really—in cryptozoology. His press is Horn’s Call Press, which operates on an invitation-only basis for publishing chapbooks of poetry.All they’ll find is it’s under construction. And for now it’s invitation only. I just don’t have the time—plenty of inclination, just no time—to run open calls.
–Berrien C. Henderson
FMI: Slade, how long have you been micropublishing?
SSJ: Only three years. For about a year I played around publishing broadsides and postcard poetry. Things like that. It’s a slow process regarding the micro-press itself, and any hope of making money, well, it’s not about that really.
FMI: Just getting someone’s voice out there.
SSJ: Exactly. And I’m something of a Luddite when it comes to the digital age. There’s something about dead trees I like.
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Former Behind the Wainscot editor Jonathan Wood has some notes on the photographic artifacts of New Vienna. Visit The Daily Cabal to read them.
I’m not sure why, but I think we’ll be seeing more from Jonathan Wood’s research into New Vienna in the near future. Call it a hunch …
It was a fine evening a couple of weeks ago, occurring as it did in an inconvenient time of year for those caught in more traditional types of jobs and families. Readings from Upstart Crows and Upstart Crows II were interspersed with Farrago-friendly music.
The delay was great, but the video is in HD, so enjoy a few highlights. Sadly, the video does not include JD Reid’s reading of his “Exeunt, to Screaming,” which contains a reference to Michael Dudikoff and is thus the pinnacle of Western literature.
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Andrew Sullivan’s blog today pointed readers to yet another blogger’s summary of the PhilPapers surveys, in which hundreds of professional and semi-pro philosophers responded to a number of basic metaphysical questions.
Among them was the question of free will, and the vast majority believe that the universe is either deterministic in a way that is compatible with free will or that free will does not exist at all. Leaving aside my own libertarian leanings (both metaphysical and political), it is clear that the people have spoken.
And since the universe functions in this way, and since Amazon added an important new item this weekend, you have no choice but to choose to pre-order Farrago-founder Darin Bradley’s novel Noise.
Immediately. The universe demands it.
Congratulations to Forrest Aguirre, whose short story, 
