Online book release party for
Last Burn in Hell: Director’s Cut

January 15 at 10 p.m. EST
chat with John Edward Lawson

http://lostdamned.com/board/

The signing at the Hard Bean Cafe went well. For anyone that missed us we'll probably be back there in early 2007 when Via Dolorosa is released.

Bare Bone #9 is now available. Don't miss freaky fiction from the likes of Alyssa Sturgill, Kurt Newton, Tim Curran, C.J. Henderson and James Chambers. Also poetry from Cameron Pierce, Dustin LaValley and Amy Grech among others. Buy on Amazon.com.

Ronald Damien Malfi's novel Via Dolorosa will be available late in January. A young soldier and his wife go on an idyllic island vacation but they can't escape a tragic past that is slowly unravelling their future, even as they try desperately to hang on to each other. Pre-order your signed copy from Shocklines:

We've added this new mini interview feature to help our readers get to know the RDSP authors better. This month I asked Steve Aylett a couple questions about putting together And Your Point Is? the book of critical essays on Jeff Lint. Don't tell Steve, but I'm beginning to wonder if this so-called 'Jeff Lint' even exists!

Is there a particular story or quote from Jeff Lint that influenced your own writing?
I like his claymore principle of creation, whereby a book goes at a velocity that, even if it blows apart, a lot of bystanders will get hit with ideas. I also respect Lint’s acknowledgement of ‘soul-saving resentments,’ his refusal to deny the very human bitterness that comes from injustice.

Obviously there exists quite a body of critical work dedicated to the writings of Jeff Lint. How did you select the final lineup of contributors?
I tried to focus on people who were dead, or whose death could be arranged relatively cheaply. This meant we wouldn’t have to pay all these writers, many of whom were demanding surprisingly large figures. It was a simple matter to have some of them ‘disappear,’ as it were. The only one that attracted much police attention was George Cane, who died immediately after an argumentative visit to the Raw Dog offices. In retrospect more time should have been allowed to elapse.

Has Jeff Lint’s work redefined the six types of jelly required for successful fantasy fiction?
This relates to the categories invented by Michael Hersh just before—or perhaps during—his breakdown. In the science fiction ghetto a lot of time is wasted debating the boundary between SF and fantasy, and Hersh thought he could end the dispute by confusing everyone with this stuff about the jellies. But people instantly ignored him when he started claiming he stored the jelly jars inside his head. Hersh finally blamed it all on his wife, and when it later gained some credence she did quite well out of it. I don’t believe Lint himself ever cared about the SF or fantasy categories, or about the six jellies. Categorization is a party game. Lint was told he wrote as if Moby Dick had never been published, to which he responded that most people lived as if it hadn’t.