Larissa Niec on Michigan Public Radio

Tuesday night on Central Michigan Public Radio, you can catch Mercury Retrograde author Larissa Niec reading from her debut novel Shorn and listen in on a Q&A session with the author. Larissa always gives a fantastic reading, and her insights on process and craft are many; this program will definitely be worth a listen.

The recordings being aired are part of Michigan Public Radio’s Michigan Authors, Michigan Books archival project. For the data-hounds among you: the reading was recorded at Schuler Books & Music in Lansing in November of last year; the Q&A session was with the Central Michigan University Fiction Collaborative, this past January.

The program is scheduled to air Tuesday, December 29 at 8:00 PM on WCMU, Central Michigan Public Radio. You can listen live on the net at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wcmu/ppr/index.shtml. As is usually the case with net radio, there should be a permanent link to the program available a few days after it airs, which we’ll share once we’ve got it.

Edward Morris at Portland Day of the Dead 2009

Join Edward Morris at Portland’s Day of the Dead 2009 for spoken-word performances including readings from his DoD-appropriate There Was a Crooked Man, Tarot, and what is sure to be a unique altar space. If you’ve never experienced the Day of the Dead festival, Portland is a great place to catch the magic.

Edward Morris reading and signing October 15

Edward Morris, whose forthcoming book There Was a Crooked Man will be released on October 27, will be doing a sneak-preview event at The Human Bean in Hillsboro, OR on October 15th, from 7 pm to 9 pm. If you’ve never heard Ed read from his own work, and you’re within range of Hillsboro, you owe it to yourself to get there. If you have heard Ed, you already know.

Here are the details:

The Human Bean
998 SE Oak St, Hillsboro, OR 97123

7 pm-9 pm

Edward Morris at OryCon

Mercury Retrograde author Edward Morris will be appearing at OryCon in Portland, OR, November 27-29. OryCon is “Oregon’s Premier Science Fiction Convention”.

Check the OryCon program for information on when & where to catch Ed at the con.

Book Launch Event: Raven Wakes the World by John Adcox

this event has been canceled.

Leona Wisoker Radio Interview November 9

Debut author Leona Wisoker will be appearing on Artist First Radio, November 9 at 7 pm. She’ll be talking about her forthcoming novel Secrets of the Sands, her journey to publication, interstitial art, and things we can only guess at.

Edward Morris at BizarroCon

The indefatigable Edward Morris will be appearing at BizarroCon in Portland, OR. BizarroCon is scheduled October 22-25; check the schedule to find Ed.

From the BizarroCon website:

WHAT IS BIZARRO?

1. Bizarro, simply put, is the genre of the weird.2. Bizarro is literature’s equivalent to the cult section at the video store.
3. Like cult movies, Bizarro is sometimes surreal, sometimes avant-garde, sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic, and almost always completely out there.

4. Bizarro strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read.

5. Bizarro often contains a certain cartoon logic that, when applied to the real world, creates an unstable universe where the bizarre becomes the norm and absurdities are made flesh.6. Bizarro was created by a group of small press publishers in response to the increasing demand for (good) weird fiction and the increasing number of authors who specialize in it.
7. Bizarro is like:

Franz Kafka meets John Waters
Dr. Suess of the post-apocalypse
Takashi Miike meets William S. Burroughs
Alice in Wonderland for adults
Japanese animation directed by David Lynch

Even though the Bizarros are underground cult outsiders, they still have gained an incredible amount of respect in the publishing industry. Having been praised by the likes of Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Moore, William Gibson, Piers Anthony, Michael Moorcock, and Charles de Lint, to name a few, as well as the publications Asimov’s Science-fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-fiction, Cemetery Dance, Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Face, among many others. They have also been finalists for the Philip K Dick Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Pushcart Prize.

Bizarro isn’t just weird fiction, it is DAMN GOOD weird fiction. And it grows exponentially every single day, so, love it or hate it, you’ll be seeing a lot more of it in the years to come.

Edward Morris at Lovecraft Film Festival

Mercury Retrograde author Edward Morris will be appearing at the Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR, October 2-4, 2009.  The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival promotes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and weird tales through the cinematic adaptations by professional and amateur filmmakers. The festival was founded in 1995 by Andrew Migliore in the hope that H.P. Lovecraft would be rightly recognized as a master of gothic horror and his work more faithfully adapted to film and television.

Ed Morris and H.P. Lovecraft…sounds like a perfect match.