No!  It's finally not about me and Machine of Death, this time it's about YOU and Machine of Death.  Maybe you noticed how exciting this has been for me and how cool and even how profitable and how I've bored you with my endless posts about it.  oh, and run-on sentences.

NOW YOU CAN HAVE REVENGE.  How?  Get yourself published in the NEXT Machine of ( Read more... )

- talking politics with aunt #1.  She was a heroin-addicted hippie in the 60s and is now as hard-core a Republican/Dittohead/Glenn Beck follower as you can find.  She believes Palin is intelligent because she was governor of Alaska and was unfairly vetted by the press.  It's the rare political discussion when you can laugh yourself to tears ( Read more... )

Another person I don't know saying nice things and making me feel the warm fuzzies:

adlubescence John Heinze

Two stories in to #machineofdeath and I already have twice my money's worth. This book is going to be one of my favorites, I can tell.

(can't get the gorram indent off again.  grrrr)  My story is second, so I ( Read more... )

So I got this email a few minutes ago:

Mr. Yona
Though I don't really have to because of the whole creative-commons-license-
thing, I figured it would be ungentlemanly to not ask your permission to make a film adaption of your short story "Fudge". My friends and I have decided (or really just me, since it is my favorite story in the book) to make ( Read more... )

One of the other authors is going story by story thru MoD, which is an interesting approach.  I find his comments fair-minded:

The second story in the collection to take its title from a confectionary-related death that turns out to be irrelevant to the main characters. And like Flaming Marshmallow, that put me off it for a while.

Fudge is not ( Read more... )

Why?  Because I've never had nice things said about my writing before and I'M AN EGO MONSTER NOW FEED ME NOM NOM NOM

Very thoughtful review of the book, even though he's only read the first four chapters.  Kudos to the editors for making something amazing.

philadams1.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/machine-of-death-short-story-collection-edited-by-ryan- ( Read more... )

I still have a hard time believing people like something I wrote, so I keep indulging my ego and posting them.  Trying to enjoy the ups of a roller coaster ride lately.  So thank you, person I don't know:

LadyGreentea Greentea

Staying up reading Machine of Death. So many good stories in one book! Favorite one so far is ( Read more... )

The editors just announced today that Machine of Death is going into a second printing almost immediately and will be in actual brick and mortar bookstores within three weeks.  I have always, always dreamed of walking into a bookstore and plucking something off a shelf with my name on it.  maybe this is a bigger deal than I'm making of it (I think ( Read more... )

Free podcast of my story as read by some Master of the Boring . . .  http://machineofdeath.net/a/pod-fudge

cross posted at  FB:

The book is now available free (!) at www.machineofdeath.net in .pdf form, and in Kindle which you have to pay for.  If for some reason you want me to sign your copy send me a request with address at jydog1 at gmail.com and I'll send a bookplate. As of right now it does not look like I'll be at the afterparty in MA. Boo ( Read more... )