Literature

In this link you will find the first page of my new gamercide exclusive story, Reinfield. ALL criticism and comments are welcome. I have a particular place in mind this story will go, but this is yours... so if you want to see something in particular, I'll try to make it happen. REINFIELD

It's a website for rating books and finding suggestions based on those ratings. Allows for reviews also,. Anyone on it?

I recently got this in the mail...... winners haven't been announced just yet, but either way it's cool. I got invited to attend the winners award ceremony, and it's close enough to be doable. Got the day off from work, and even if i don't win, i'll get to schmooze with some pretty prominent authors, including Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven.

These are quotes, not the entire poem “You could tie my tongue My lips, my teeth Split them into surrender Into a foreign language And I would still manage To cough up your name.” - Danielle Shorr, “Let” “They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stations and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform. No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.” - Katelin Wagner, “Disappearing Acts (after Miles Hodges)” Our love is hitchhiking across the California desert and no one is slowing down. Is a lie still a lie if you say it pretty? You’re saying…

Humble eBook Bundle 2

I took a bunch of boxes of my friends comic collection he was going to throw out, (the nerd in me couldn't let all of them go to the dump), and I was finally digging through them to see what was there and I found Amazing Spider-Man #2 (I don't think it's a reprint since it's Vol.1 Issue 2, but I need to double check that). The quality is pretty bad, but it still has the cover and no water damage so I might be able to $100-$200 (at most) for it. Maybe even a little less but that's okay for simply finding it. Of course the comic geek in me wants to keep it .. I mean COME ON!! .. it's Spider-man #2!! LEE!! DITKO!!! I'm geekin' out over here! ah screw it.. I'll get it graded …

In the year 2148, explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization. In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the furthest stars. The basis for this incredible technology was a force that controlled the very fabric of space and time. They called it the greatest discovery in Human history. The civilizations of the galaxy called it...Mass Effect "Jason Bradley, Twenty-Four years old, born and raised on a Cerberus Space Station. As a child, we moddified him. Turning him into the youngest Biotic in recorded history. Spends his days on Omega after the death of his Mothe…

I'm not exactly sure how to start this topic off, so i'll just type it all in one go and not edit myself, NO REGRETS, NO WEAKNESS, ONWARD FROTH!!!(its really whipped cream, silly ;D) So. John Dies at the End, NOT a spoiler... or at least i cant verify if it's a spoiler or not, cause that in of itself would be a spoiler, it IS however the name of the book by David Wong. Much like most people with Marble Mocha Macchiatos in hand (upside-down tuxedo, M&M-&M) I will assume you've never heard of him, which is probably for the best, otherwise this post would be pointless and my many hours without sleep unrelated to this post at all would have been wasted in order to get…

So I started reading the seven comic series, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac a few days ago. I just finished reading the fifth one, though there are a couple spin offs featuring different characters. It was created by Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Invader Zim (which I've never seen much of but would like to check out, also due to it's titular character voicing a character in the Destroy All Humans games). I'd describe it as darkly humorous. It gets kind of messed up at some points but there's always an underlying irony of sorts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac Has anyone else ever read this series?

So I finally just ordered the 4 Volume boxed set of Journey to the West, originally supposedly written by Wu Cheng'En in the 1600s. It's a classical Chinese novel. The version I'm getting is translated by W. J. F. Jenner. http://www.amazon.com/Journey-West-4--Boxed-Set/dp/7119016636/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297125580&sr=1-1 For those of you who don't know about it, it's the story that inspired Dragonball, and more recently, loosely inspired the game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I've wanted to read it for a while now. I had a PDF of it, but I could only read it on PC or PSP, so a physical copy will be much nicer. The story is just insane and right…

I already thought the movie that came out a few years back was awesome, but I just got done reading the first part (8 issues) of the original comic of Kick-Ass and it is pretty great too. I'm definitely going to read Hit Girl and second series before watching the movie of Kick-Ass 2. Has anyone else read these?

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So, my friend recently introduced me to this Manga called Liar Game. "Nao Kanzaki, an honest and naive college student, receives 100 million yen (about $1,000,000) and an invitation to participate in the "Liar Game Tournament". The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million yen. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. She discovered her opponent was her elementary school teacher, Mr. Fujisawa. When Nao was easily tricked into giving her opponent the 100 million yen, she asks Shinichi Akiyama, an ex-convict and genius who recently got out of jail, for help. Though Akiyama was reluctant …

http://www.literature-map.com/ This should be neat. Type in your author of choice and it pulls up similar authors!

I know we have some talented people in our forum who like to write; so i was wondering if any of you had tried the long ridge writers group course. I've heard both positive and negative things about it and wondered if any of you have experience with them.

My Valley girl linked me to this short story experiment today. I thought it was hilariously true. Enjoy http://www.pinterest.com/pin/260786634646716916/

Mikey AKA MikeyFace Neumann works for Gearbox as a writer and creative mastermind. He's also written a fine book. Follow his story as he writes it. He's up to chapter 13. http://bozpublishing.com/read.php?b=8675309&ch=0

Anyone else doing National Writing Month this year?

Sending in a short story soon to writer's digest 80th annual competition, after it's sent I'll pm anyone who wants it a key to the story in googledoc.

What happens when the haggling is done and the shops are closed? When the quest has been given, the steeds saddled, and the adventurers are off to their next encounter? They keep the world running, the food cooked, and the horses shoed, yet what adventurer has ever spared a thought or concern for the Non-Player Characters? In the town of Maplebark, four such NPCs settle in for a night of actively ignoring the adventurers drinking in the tavern when things go quickly and fatally awry. Once the dust settles, these four find themselves faced with an impossible choice: pretend to be adventurers undertaking a task of near-certain death or see their town and loved ones destroy…

Some of you probably do not know that I am big on graphic design and art . I absolutely cherish this subject , but Kilian released his book OBJECT 10 which is a follow up to his OBJECT 5 . The book is a new volume featuring some of the artist’s recent illustration work. He has some of the most creative art work to this date and is someone I am influenced by myself . Soon , I am going to try and get into a college for Art & Graphic Design . Here are some pictures though and a little promotional clip .

I just got published in an online magazine. You can read it here, and comment if you like. I apologize for the formatting, it does make it a bit hard to read, i origionally wrote it on Word. Here's the http://larksfictionmagazine.blogspot.com/ link.

Wow. This is freaking crazy and disgusting all at the same time. It's about Orcs that have a "gronch based currency". What is "gronch based currency? I'll let this screengrab explain it. Wow. Just, wow. There is an interview with the comic's creator over on an unmentionable site who's name is not to be mentioned here and is censored for life yo.

So I recently finished the first book in this series and just purchased the second book in the series this past weekend. Wow, what a great and awesome story so far. I'm totally hooked into the tale this author is spinning right now. It's part science fiction, part fantasy and part cyberpunk. It's hard to explain since there is so much going on, but here's the Wiki page to give you an idea of what it's about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherland VERY good reading! Highly recommended!

http://projectinkandblood.com/ This is a serial series by two unpublished authors. I personally know Jade but regardless it's an incredible series so far and you should look into it