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Vincent W. Sakowski

Blender Fiction is my business and business is Bizarro

About Me

I am a published writer, musician, dramatist, and all around dabbler in the arts. These days, mostly I concentrate on writing. My writing has appeared in a variety of anthologies, magazines, onstage, and on the Internet. My first published novel is SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNPLUGGED, from Eraserhead Press.
Another novel just released in 2007 is: NOT QUITE ONE OF THE BOYS, from Afterbirth Books, and a short fiction collection from Eraserhead Press: MISADVENTURES IN A THUMBNAIL UNIVERSE.
Much of my writing delves into the surreal, the absurd, and the bizarre-- often combining different genres of fiction. It is often satirical and socially critical. I call it BLENDER FICTION, but it falls under the umbrella of BIZARRO.
Here is a little promo video for Not Quite One of the Boys as well. You can find it in my Video section too.
Not Quite One of the Boys Promo Video

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My Interests

Writing. Reading. Music, movies, and plays of all kinds. I'm a musician as well: guitar, bass, a bit of mandolin. (Many years back, I played bass and guitar in The NPO Conspiracy.) Art and plays. Travel. Adventure. History and archaeology. The environment, and all the things we're doing to harm it. Games of all kinds.All things Bizarro...

I'd like to meet:

Fellow writers, artists of all kinds, musicians, anyone interested in the surreal, the bizarre, the BIZARRO, creating new works, and helping the environment. ..

Kasey Marie

Chris

Debbie

Vincent

Denine

Shaun

John Edward Lawson

Afterbirth Books

Carlton Mellick III

Authors of Myspace

Tim Ashworth

Corporatedemon

Kristen

Violet Wednesday

Kay

Sonia

Ray Fracalossy

Qian Jung

Myspace Messiah

Carrie

View All of My Friends

..

Music:

Beck, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, King Crimson, April Wine, Neil Young, Stereolab, Rasputina, Black Sabbath, Melvins, Monster Magnet, Electric Wizard, Fu Manchu, Nebula, Acid King, OM, Rage Against the Machine, Sons of Otis, Portishead, Tricky, The Thievery Corporation, Groove Armada, Moorcheeba, Massive Attack, Blur, Cake, Clinic, AC/DC, Rush, The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Alice Cooper, The Police, 54-40, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Traffic, Gomez, The Beta Band, PJ Harvey, Gorillaz, Radiohead, Primus, Jane's Addiction, The Screaming Trees, Ambulance Ltd, Sloan, Stone Temple Pilots, Suede, The Strokes, The Tragically Hip, The Guess Who, The Dandy Warhols, The Verve Pipe, U2, R.E.M., The Vines, The White Stripes, Whale, ZZ Top, Frank Zappa... and many more... I'm always on the look-out for new music, especially for music that grooves...

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, This is Spinal Tap, Blade Runner, Alien, (Ridley Scott), Sin City, Pulp Fiction, (Tarantino), Rope, (Hitchcock), (Cronenberg), (Lynch), Dark City, Donnie Darko, Army of Darkness, (James Bond), Casino Royale, The Outlaw Josey Wales, (Eastwoood), Conan The Barbarian (NOT The Destroyer), Animal House, Team America: World Police, Undercover Brother, The Big Lebowski, (the Coen Brothers), Little Miss Sunshine, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Fight Club, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars series, (Indiana Jones), (Spielberg), Platoon, U-Turn, (Oliver Stone), 12 Monkeys, (Terry Gilliam), (Tim Burton), Unbreakable, The Big Sleep, L.A. Confidential, (Film Noir), Jacob's Ladder, The Fifth Element, The Road Warrior, From Dusk Till Dawn (the first half only), The Great Mouse Detective, The Zero Effect, The Usual Suspects, Thunderheart, (Batman), Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Clockwork Orange, The Last Boy Scout, Pink Floyd The Wall, Get Shorty, The Princess Bride, Sneakers, South Park (Bigger, Longer, Uncut), Fubar, The Matrix, Bowling For Columbine, Supersize me... and many more...

Television:

Farscape, Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live, The Twilight Zone (original series), Clone High, The Family Guy, (Star Trek), Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (the new series), (The History Channel), The Job, Arrested Development, Kids in the Hall, The Muppet Show (original series), the news, documentary/information shows...

Books:

IT, (King), (Philip K. Dick), (William S. Burroughs), Fight Club, (Palahniuk), I Am Legend, Lamb, The Bible According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, (Christopher Moore), (Elmore Leonard), (Franz Kafka), Dune, (Frank Herbert), Starship Troopers, (Heinlein), A Clockwork Orange, Watership Down, (Dr Seuss), (Clive Barker), (Vonnegut), (HP Lovecraft), (Robert E. Howard), The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, (Jonathan Lethem), (David Prill), Towing Jehovah, SIN CITY Graphic Novels, (Frank Miller), (George Orwell), (Ian Fleming), (Michael Moorcock), (Michael Moore), (Al Franken), (Shakespeare), (Rod Serling), (Gary Larson -- Farside), (Alan Moore), (graphic novels), (Arthur Slade), (John Edward Lawson), (Carlton Mellick III), (D. Harlan Wilson), (Kevin L. Donihe), (Michael A. Arnzen)

Heroes:

As a young kid: my brother and my Dad. In music: Jimmy Page inspired me to play guitar, Jim Morrison: that I could actually sing in a certain range, and then later Lou Reed solidified the idea of singing and song-writing in my own way. In film: well, see my list of directors and favorite films. In literature, see the authors. The most important lesson being to find my own voice, and write in my own way. Superheroes: favorites-- Batman, Spiderman, The Wolverine, Rorschach. And in the regular world-- which is predominated by selfishness and greed-- I admire selfless acts the most, by anyone.

My Blog

Writing Tips For New/Emerging Writers 6.0-- Getting Your Books Into Libraries

Hey folks:This is an idea I proposed long ago to my fellow Bizarros, and it offers one possible solution to getting some more books out there-- both for yourselves as authors, or for your friends who ...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:02:00 PST

Blender Fiction Is My Business-- a new short video

Hey Folks:I've got a new writing tip blog in the works, that I'll be posting in the new next few days. In the mean time, I've been messing around w/ more film work. For now, I'm just doing short film ...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:17:00 PST

Misadventures in a Thumbnail Unverse -- Released

Hi Folks:My short fiction collection, Misadventures in a Thumbnail Universe has been published by Eraserhead Press. It's available at places like amazon.com, and shocklines.com for $9.95. Click on the...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:37:00 PST

Not Quite One of the Boys- Promo Video (Shoot)

Back on Tuesday, March 27, some friends and I shot some video footage to help promote my new novel: Not Quite One of the Boys. The video is posted here in my Video section, and I'll be posting it else...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:31:00 PST

Meet-the-author chat session this Thu + other news (w/ Add-on)

Hey Folks:I have a meet-the-author chat session scheduled over at The Lost and the Damned with Monica Smith moderating THIS THURSDAY, March 29. It's helping to promote my latest novel, NOT QUITE ONE O...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

NOT QUITE ONE OF THE BOYS-pre-sale. And Other Writing News

Hi Folks:First of all, I'm announcing that my novel Not Quite One of the Boys is available for advanced orders at Shocklines. ($13.95 USA) It will be out in the coming weeks, and I'll post a bulletin ...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:30:00 PST

Writing Tips For New/Emerging Writers 5.0- Writing a Synopsis

If you've written a novel and plan to submit it anywhere, you're almost guaranteed that you'll need to write a synopsis to go with your submission. Basically, a synopsis is a summary of your story...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:58:00 PST

Tips For New/Emerging Writers 4.0- Are you good enough?

Today, a poet asked me: how do you know if youre good enough to get published? (Shes working on a collection of poetry. Like many writers, she was also afraid of rejection.) She asked what someone cou...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:58:00 PST

Apropos Quotes-- the Bush Doctrine(?)

Hey Folks:I've been busy working on revisions for two books I have coming out this fall, so I'm behind on my "tips for new/emerging writers." I have more in the works, but none are ready yet. In the m...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:00:00 PST

Tips For New/Emerging Writers 3.0-- copyright and your work

This wasn't my planned topic for this week, but I ended up posting part of this in a writer's group, so I figured I'd add it here in my blog.The question had concerned copyrighting your work, and one ...
Posted by Vincent W. Sakowski on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:45:00 PST