(UPDATE: Due to an unfortunate incident on Farmville, in which my avatar was murdered by Confederate deserters, I briefly decided to rid myself of all social networking websites. Therefore, the twitter account referenced in this post no longer exists. But somehow Yu's novel has managed to flourish even without the 78-follower-Seth-Fried-Twitter-Bump. Check out this awesome review of HTLSIASFU in The New York Times Book Review.)Very rarely do I use this blog to talk about anything other than my own really excellent and wonderful writing. But every once in a great while I'll get so excited about someone else's work that for one dizzying moment I manage to see past my own ego. Such is the case with Charles Yu's impending novel,
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel.
Yu's debut short story collection,
Third Class Superhero, is one of my favorite books. So this novel is highly anticipated in the Fried household. So much so that until the book is released (Sept. 7th, 2010) I will be dedicating
my twitter feed to my HTLSIASFU anticipation. Once a day (for a month or so), I will use my twitter account to describe one thing I am doing in order to prepare for the release of Yu's book.
Naturally, this will result in a tremendous windfall of publicity for Yu's novel in that I CURRENTLY HAVE 78 TWITTER FOLLOWERS. This number is especially impressive if you consider the fact that statistically for every one person that follows you on twitter there are roughly ten thousand people who wish they had the courage to follow you on twitter.
You can find my twitter profile/feed (?) here:
twitter.com/sethfried
In this epic scroller, you must help my smoldering author photo defeat some of the country's best literary journals. You take control of my author photo as it dominates top-shelf lit mags with its Projectile Sex Appeal. Observe:
I'm excited to announce that one of my stories has been shortlisted in the new BASS anthology. Now if anyone purchases this anthology and ends up getting trapped in an elevator or pinned beneath a giant rock, they will most likely see my name while reading the notable stories section out of sheer boredom. As far as I'm concerned, that's what it's all about. Congrats to all the great writers on the list!
We've all had this happen to us: You're sitting there with your candelabrum, reading a bunch of dark fantasy and horror. You're trying to enjoy yourself, but the dark fantasy and horror you're reading just isn't the best. What's a diehard DF&H fan to do? Until recently, nothing. But fortunately the good people at Prime Books have decided to take action. This October, they will be publishing a brand new anthology, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010.
Brent Van Horne, the best short story writer/copywriter/content strategist you've ever read about in a blog post, has just launched his new site. So if you want to take a break from downloading illegal music and Super Nintendo emulators, I strongly suggest you click here. Or here. But whatever you do, don't click here.
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