Tag: Events
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The Gray Shadow
Hey friends, What’s been going on? I’ve had a couple of things pop up recently and I wanted to share them with you, but first–a few serious words about facial hair… I stay fairly clean cut. I shave every other day usually. If I don’t, the grayness of my stubble threatens to overshadow my face…
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Friday the 13th: Our New Lucky Day
Hi friends, Today is a really exciting day here at Sampsell/Future Tense headquarters. Actually an exciting week in general. It started off with two readings–Monday night at Powell’s I read at the Plazm Magazine anniversary party. Tuesday night, I read at a kick-butt Smalldoggies reading at the Blue Monk. Smalldoggies also published this chapter from…
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How many staples have I stapled in twenty years?
See you tomorrow night at Disjecta. 8pm. It’s free. But the memories will be priceless. There will be cake, drinking, music, readings, bike tricks, and a lot of famous sexy writers. Also, there will be T-shirts for sale, with our new mascot, The Beavegator (use your imagination). I would post it here but it’s too…
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What Have I Been Doing?
Hey friends, It really seems like this whole year has been nonstop action. After all the touring and attention for A Common Pornography, I thought I’d be settling down a little, but I still have a few big readings coming up. Check the events page for that list. We got libraries, benefit readings with rap…
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Tour Diary: Houston
Well, it finally happened. Frayn and I pulled up to Kaboom Books last night just in time for our reading with Kirby Johnson and Ryan Call and we were the only ones there. I’ve been fortunate to have good luck with my touring thus far, getting good crowds at every event. The previous low turnout…
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Tour Diary: Austin, Texas
Last night, Frayn and I read at House Wine here in Austin, Texas. It was a fun outdoor reading with a good crowd and the host was Tyson Midkiff, who also runs a series called Whiskey Rebellion (“Where we drink as much as we can tell and try to read,” he says). Unfortunately, two of…
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Some Shenanigans
Hey folks–a couple of fun things coming up. First off, I’ll be hosting a reading on July 2nd at Ampersand. This all came about (or was INSPIRED by) Evelyn Hampton’s brain-meltingly good book of poems, “We Were Eternal and Gigantic.” I was so transfixed by the oddness of her unique world (I read a bunch…
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Noir, One Year Later
On May 1st of last year, the Portland Noir anthology came out from Akashic Books. It took a couple of weeks for people to notice it at local bookstores, but when it did, it really took off. Portland Noir has been one of the top 20 best-selling fiction titles at Powell’s every month for a…
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