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Kevin L. Donihe

Mount the happy champion!

About Me

I am a writer man.

Currently, HOUSE OF HOUSES , SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN? , OCEAN OF LARD (co-written with Carlton Mellick III), GRAPE CITY , and THE GREATEST FUCKING MOMENT IN SPORTS are my books from Eraserhead Press .

I've had a lot of short fiction published since 1995. Biggest short fiction credit = a story in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF LEGAL THRILLERS, published by Carroll and Graf in the US and Constable and Robinson in the UK.

I also edit BARE BONE , an anthology series for Raw Dog Screaming Press . A story from the first issue was reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 13. Also, quite a few stories (including five in #9, and four apiece in the three previous issues) have received honorable mentions in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.

I do not eat chimpanzees.

My Interests

Writing, editing, old things, beautiful things, walruses

Movies:

Silent movies, weird movies, and awful movies

Television:

Adult Swim cartoons, Strangers with Candy, The Upright Citizens Brigade, shows about people who do things that make other things happen, Antiques Roadshow

Books:

Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Eugene Ionesco, Carlton Mellick III, D. Harlan Wilson, Vincent Sakowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, George Mangels, Hermann Hesse, Richard Matheson, Franz Kafka, Bradley Sands, Chris Genoa, Ray Fracalossy, Peter Straub, Mike Philbin, Stewart O'Nan, William T. Vollmann

Heroes:

Don't really have any of those.

My Blog

BB 10 YBFH HM

Just found out that stories in BARE BONE 10 from Robert Dunbar, Paul Finch, and Jeremy Shipp received Honorable Mentions in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 21....
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:41:00 PST

Bizarro Con website up as of yesterday...

... and this is it....
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:08:00 PST

Progress indicator

Got a total of 59,561 washer words at the moment, which means I'll break 60,000 tomorrow, at the very latest. What's left to do:*Write the last Dark Washer scene. *Deskeletonize the final scene a...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:01:00 PST

Grilled cheese sandwich to the face

Excerpt from the first draft of "The Washer Book" (working non-title), chosen by scrolling through the file, then stopping randomly:The door whooshed again. Samuel's gaze remained on the waitress as s...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:10:00 PST

The page Im working on now...

Page I'm currently working on, from the first draft of The Washer Book (working non-title): "I didn't hear you flush!" Roy remembered neatly manicured fingers pulling down a little silver lever in a c...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:32:00 PST

Blood Pressure + Bizarro Con in November

On a whim, I checked my blood pressure, and it was 0/0. Not good! Actually, it was 121/76. Oh, and the Bizarro Con (to be held mid-November in Portland, OR) has a MySpace page now: This is it. That's ...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:19:00 PST

Daily Kos, Panthertown, Nubian Skulls, and Washers

A friend of mine used some of the pictures I took during our Labor Day weekend trip to Panthertown Valley in NC for a DAILY KOS article. (Six other old college friends were in attendance, too.) Behold...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:43:00 PST

Progress indicator

Broke 40,000 Washer Words today.   For the record, I started on the night of May 31st and reached 10,000 words on July 9th, which is pretty damn inexcusable.   July 30th = the day the 20,00...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:39:00 PST

Ye Olde Excrement Towne (pop. 49,000)

Got a friend request from a reader. Part of the included message said, "wow, you live in the same shithole town as me." Yes, I can admit this now, to everyone, everywhere.  I live in a ...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:24:00 PST

20,000+ Washer Words (Barrier Broken)

Broke the 20,000 word barrier on the Washer Book early today (around 12:50 AM). 20,000 words = the point where I feel as though I've finally "cracked" a longer work. (I'm defining "longer work" a...
Posted by Kevin L. Donihe on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:24:00 PST