April 2008: The Morbid Curiosity back issue sale is going on now! Issues 3-10 are available in limited quantities for $4 each, U.S. postpaid. The Morbid Curiosity page is
here.
March 27-31, 2008: I’ll be at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, reading at the Persephone Writers Organization’s game show, reading SIRENS, doing my first-ever Mass Autograph Signing, and swanning around the
Dark Arts Pajama Party.
February 23, 2008 at 3 p.m.: Maria Alexander and I will read from SINS OF THE SIRENS at
Borderlands Books.
February 16, 2008: My first interview as an author, rather than purely as an editor, appeared at
Macabre Ink.
January 19, 2008 at 2 p.m.: My first-ever book-signing with Maria Alexander and Christa Faust -- to celebrate the publication of SINS OF THE SIRENS -- at
Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California!
January 2008: SINS OF THE SIRENS, the book containing four of my stories, alongside work by Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, and Mehitobel Wilson come out from
Dark Arts Books.
November 30, 2007: I finished Nanowrimo 2007, scraping together 50,000 words of an Alondra novel tentatively called "The Shadow of Death."
November 2007: "San Francisco: Crimes Seen," a nonfiction exploration of San Francisco criminal history, appears in
Instant City #5. (
www.instantcity.org)
October 31, 2007: I finished first draft of a science fiction Hong Kong-style action novel called The Dangerous Type. Revision is scheduled for January 2008.
October 2007: "The Paramental Appreciation Society," a chapbook containing stories by Loren Rhoads, Seth Lindberg, Claudius Reich, and Lilah Wild, is back in print! Order it from Borderlands Books. (
www.borderlands-books.com)
October 2007: "The Fox and the Foreigner," an Alondra story set in Tokyo, appears in Not One Of Us #38. (
www.not-one-of-us.com))
8/7/07: I signed the contract for
Sins of the Sirens, available from Dark Arts Books in October 2007, with new and rare stories by Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, Mehitobel Wilson, and Loren Rhoads. My stories will include the first chapter of a succubus novel, the complete version of the story published by
Cemetery Dance last year, an Alondra story set in New Orleans, and a brand-new story inspired by the museum at Griffith Observatory.
August 2007: I joined Facebook and Goodreads. Come be my friend!
7/12/07: "The Fox and the Foreigner" is accepted by John Benson for either the October issue of
Not One of Us or a special project in January. This will be the third Alondra story to see print this year. It's one of my favorites.
6/4/07: "San Francisco: Crimes Seen," a tour of the scenic crime scenes of my hometown, is accepted for Instant City #5.
4/23/07: In celebration of today being
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, the story "The Acid That Dissolves Images" has been posted in PDF form on the Writing page. Download and enjoy!
2/23/07: "The Shattered Rose" is accepted for The Paramental Appreciation Society's chapbook to be published by Red Snake Books in March 2007. Loren will read an excerpt of the story at Borderlands Books on March 25 at 3:00pm.
2/2/07: "The Energizer Bunny Keeps Going and Going" published in
Instant City #4.
9/28/06: "Still Life with Shattered Glass," the X-rated version, will
appear in NOIROTICA 4, edited by Thomas S. Roche. It should be out by
the end of the year.
11/20/06: "Affamé," a gay vampire story, is accepted for City
Slab #10. (
www.cityslab.com)
12/31/06: Loren will be the featured reader at the release party
for
Instant City #4
(
www.instantcity.org).
The event is scheduled for 2/2/07 at Adobe Books, 3166 16th Street
(between Valencia and Guerrero) San Francisco, (415) 864-3936. More
details posted as I receive them.
1/4/07: "Still Life with Shattered Glass," as published in Cemetery Dance #54, has been recommended for the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction.
