Date: March 9th 2010

I'm reading at Literary Death Match on Friday. It's an early show. Starts at 7pm, at the Elbo Room...

The Literary Death Match is like a reading series, but it's competitive. LDM features a mix of four writers who perform in a bar before an adoring/drunk audience and a panel of three all-star judges who take turns spouting affectionate commentary about (or maybe not about) each story. Two writers advance to the finals where we trade in the show’s literary sensibility for a fight to the death.

Why, may you ask, am I reading at a Literary thingity thing thing?

What, may you ask, am I going to read?

Well. I'm gonna read a chapter from my book. I've been holed up. And now done. It ships to the printer next week. I'm going to tell you more about it after it ships. It's kinda exciting, I have to admit. I have sat down a few times to collect my thoughts. But I just didn't have the patience or the stick-to-itivness to keep going when it stopped flowing. You have to force a book into existence. It's not like building a boat out of bullshit with a few guys and some beer over a weekend. You have to wake up early and spend all your hours writing things that you know you are going to end up deleting. It's an odd and tilted task.

But you can hear a chapter this Friday, if you are so inclined. And I promise there will be more to come soon. I have to spend the rest of this week doing lay out and design stuff. But I dont' want to talk about it all until it ships away to the printer and I can say for sure when it's going to be something actual...

The tome is called:

Fail... to win!
engineered disperfection explained

You'll like it. It's got lots of pictures.

Come out Friday and say hi....

chicken