Author: jkonrath
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Before the chop, noise labels
I just finished reading the new Henry Rollins book, Before the Chop, which is a collection of his LA Weekly articles from the last couple of years, in their longer, unedited form. Previously, Rollins would write in his journals all year about his travels and whatnot, and then at the end of each year, dump…
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All of the stuff currently on my desk, a list with little to no commentary
This is a list of all of the stuff on my desk. Note that I don’t always write fiction-type stuff at my desk, because I work all day there, and it usually works out better when I write sitting on the couch in the living room, with actual sunlight and windows and whatnot. Macbook Pro,…
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Sleeping wall of remorse
I always hate dealing with the postpartum depression that follows writing a book. I’m finding it’s even worse when I don’t immediately publish the book and get it out of my hair. I’m currently waiting for someone else to go through it, and I want to just rip it off like a band-aid on a…
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Paper journal entry 10/10/96
[…] Drifting – pain – autumn’s cool air. People surround city streets, the majestic banks of nobody, glass towers, palaces of low-frequency shudder. Tensile tear of sharp metal scales of black, bleak, black, mumbling jets. I hear one pass now, every night, every night since they took the cranes so near and yet so far…
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Next book done
I finished my next book yesterday. 26 pieces. 38,845 words. It has a title, but it may change. I’m not really done done yet, because I have to come up with a cover (which I hate) and a book description (which I also hate) and maybe think about a new title. I also have to…
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Mister, if you don’t shut up I’m gonna kick one hundred percent of your ass!
It’s been like a month since I’ve made any kind of update here, which can only mean one of two things: I decided to go to Mexico and write about the drug trade, and got myself killed by Narcoterrorists, or I’m deep in the middle of writing a book and feel all of my energy…
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The Annotated Rumored to Exist, Hardcover edition
So I wanted a hardcover of Rumored to Exist, because I’m funny about that, so I made one. Check it: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jon-konrath/the-annotated-rumored-to-exist/hardcover/product-20974619.html It’s a hardcover edition of the annotated version that I originally released in 2004. In fact, it’s the exact text from the 2004 version. I would have preferred to go over it again, starting…
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Rumored to Exist, haiku edition
I totally forgot about this. A long time ago, I found this program that would scan a text file and generate haiku from it. I don’t know exactly how it worked; I guess it would find syllable counts of 5-7-5 in the text. So of course, I fed Rumored to Exist into it. It looks…
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Another story from another kind of book
I’m still editing this book. It’s going to take a while, and I hate this part of the process more than anything, because it’s not the process of creating, of writing hundreds and thousands of words, and it’s not the process of holding a finished book in your hands, so it’s painstaking. And I have…
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I do not give a god damn about the book industry
I often get dragged into discussions about the book industry, mostly because people are too stupid to know the difference between Jon and Joe and blindly throw a @jkonrath into a tweet about how publishing is dying or some dumb company is fleecing even dumber authors who did the equivalent of paying $10,000 cash for…