-Elsewhere-

Recently people have been asking if I have a site banner they can use to link to JRJ.com. This one doesn’t exactly mention my website, but it works just as well for those who do banner based links pages. Feel free to use it:

And THANK YOU! to those who have linked to my site, and those who may in the future!

Author’s note: Here are some sites that I frequent often, and occasionally, often frequently, although if I often too much I get the asthma real bad.


-Writing-

Powell's Books – Known as the City of Books, and with good reason. Vast, comprehensive, and legendary, Powell’s is my favorite book store on Earth.

Bloodletting Books - Home to the finest work in horror publishing, including Doug Clegg, Elizabeth Massie, Jeffrey Thomas, and yours truly.

Eraserhead Press – If you’re looking for truly bizarre, fresh, surreal fiction that wears its mania on its sleeve, this is your place. Also not a bad place to find my book Angel Dust Apocalypse, winner of the 2004 Eraserhead Press First Book Contest.

Ralan - A comprehensive listing of where to sell your speculative fiction. Highly useful.

Zuzu - Ditto Ralan, and it branches to even more markets.

Zoetrope - A link to Zoetrope, one of the most readable, unique, and wonderful literary magazines on Earth.

Shocklines - Welcome to Shocklines, an immensely deep market for horrific art and fiction. If I wrote it, and it's disturbing, you've got good odds of finding it here.

AynRand.org - My favorite modern philosopher. I wonder how she’d feel about capitalism and corporate heroes if she were alive today. I’d be interested in seeing a more progressive form of Objectivism that maintained the strength of self but accounted for the less than ideal outcomes of capitalism and neo-classical economics. Atlas Shrugged is the best romantic sci-fi philosophical treatise I’ve ever read.

Craig Davidson & His Blog – The respective website and journal for the hugely talented author of Rust and Bone and The Fighter. Amusing, and often insightful with regards to the life of a “new” writer.

Reading Frenzy – Looking for independent press in Portland, OR? RF is a must visit.

POD-dy Mouth – Girl On Demand, an undercover midlist author, digs through mountains of POD slush to find and review the gems. Nominated ADA for her inaugural Needle Awards.

James Ellroy - A site dedicated to the incredible James Ellroy, the first man to turn text to moonshine. A Demon Dog genius without peers.

Fall of Autumn – Great resource (and source of entertainment) for DIY folks/zinesters/anybody who wants to create.

Perilous Press – Home of writer extraordinaire Cody Goodfellow, author of the incredible Radiant Dawn & Ravenous Dusk novels.

Horrorfind - The net's best resource for finding horror on the web. My twisted short "Sparklers Burning" appeared here.

Verbicide- Verbicide is one of the best music/art/literature-based magazines on the market. Insightful writing and interviews with your next favorite band.

Avant Punk - Venture here at your own risk. CM3 writes books so resolutely strange you start to wonder if the pages aren’t laced with acid.

Raw Dog Screaming - Hyper-solid underground press covering bizarre territory with notable intelligence.

DFW - There’s not enough hyperbole for me to even write about this guy. Should win a Nobel Prize for Infinite Jest.

The Meat Socket – I’m WARNING (!) you very seriously to think twice about heading here. This site is the home of the most offensive extreme horror mag on the market today, likely to be banned before you blink. Subversive horror, film, metal, and pseudo-snuff abound. I managed to offend myself in my interview with them. Sickos and hardcore horror fans only.

Wheatland Press – Home of the incredibly diverse Polyphony anthologies. Superlative cross-genre works galore here, including the upcoming TEL : Stories antho, featuring my short “Last Thoughts Drifting Down.”

Gorelets – Home base of Stoker-winning author Michael A. Arnzen, and so much more. Dense, entertaining, and worth checking on a regular basis.

Alan M Clark - The home of some of the most gorgeous, surreal, and intense artwork I’ve ever seen. Imagine dolphins, possessed by a Hieronymous Bosch hive-mind, with paint brushes strapped to their bodies. Imagine that they’re diving in and out of vats of oil paint, slamming into marble walls and coughing up simian bones. Imagine that. You’re still not ready for what Alan M. Clark’s art can do to your brain.

Dark Discoveries – A dark fiction magazine with an excellent and seamless mix of new writers and your favorite pro’s. Although newer to the horror magazine game, they’re already gaining a reputation as one of the best in the business thanks to their top notch fiction, interviews, profiles, and reviews. Absolutely worth reading.

Steve Vernon – Nova Scotia’s only professional horror writer (to date). One of those guys who really understands how to tell a story and make it resonate. Also the originator of the zombie buffalo.

Project Pulp - Home to Project Pulp, a great place to find the stranger side of fiction.

City Slab - Evan Wright of Rolling Stone calls City Slab "a profound achievement" and "the best in urban horror today." I call it brutal, intense, and intelligent. A must read for fans of cutting edge horror.

Elizabeth Engstrom - Her fiction is capable of seduction and sick vice, often in the same sentence. Highly recommended.

D. Harlan Wilson – A truly Bizarro author. The guy pulling the puppet strings that make Pseudo-City twitch.

THE EDGE: Tales of Suspense - This is the quickest way to find THE EDGE on the net.
Also, check out EDGE editor Greg Gifune's dark fiction at Greg's site.

Maui Writers - You want to go to the best writer’s conference ever? Yeah, so do I. Sand, sun, connections, and workshops galore.

Chucky P aka Chuck Palahniuk - Welcome to The Cult.

Peter Craig - Site for the works of Peter Craig, author of the hugely entertaining literary crime novel Hot Plastic and the rapidly ascending hit thriller Blood Father.




-Various-

Mars Volta - I will never, even with years of training and special anabolic rock steroids, rock as hard as these guys. And people literally explode at their live shows, so wear a raincoat, or a tarp, or just some clothes you don’t really have any sentimental or fiscal attachment to. These guys are the best.

Home Before Sundown – Two musicians battle it out with a bunch of keyboards and computer gear in a quest to make intricate, beautiful, emotionally direct music. Every once in a while the technical gear wins and things get strange. Go to these guy’s shows now, so later when all your friends are into them you can act like an elitist bastard.

DJ Dieselboy - A ton of "sci-fi" drum and bass sounds like an angry robotic baby thrown into a dryer with a drum set and some Snuggle dryer sheets. This guy, he only plays the goods. May create reptilian thoughts in the listener.

Def Jux - Hip hop label of the century. No matter what century you’re reading this sentence in. End to end burners guaranteed.

Ketchup-Suicide aka Morten Bak – More visual insanity from Denmark’s best artist. Check out the diverse and strange portfolio of the man responsible for the Angel Dust Apocalypse book cover.

Bob and David - THE funniest site on the web (please don’t write to me about that ninja site or the Icy Cold Stuntaz, cause I know, okay, I know, and I know how passionate you are about these other sites and how your enjoyment of them makes you feel somehow inextricably tied to their coolness, but the simple fact is that nobody else can compare to these guys and their buddies) from the creators of Mr. Show.

Saul Williams - Saul is a poet, writer, actor, and musician. He is everything Jim Morrison wanted to be. An incredible artist.

PROTECT - PROTECT is a national pro-child, anti-crime membership association taking real political action to create change and legislate real consequences for things like child abuse, neglect, and incest. How can you not get behind that?

Burning Man – Citizens of Black Rock City, welcome home!

Keith Minnion - Best place to find Keith Minnion's fine art.

The West Memphis Three - Free the West Memphis Three. Obvious injustice, once acknowledged, must be dealt with.

House of Eternal Falling – This is where they are hiding the goat demons and teaching babies to hate.

Jeremy Robert Johnson - Oh, shit, a self-link. Either I’m being postmodern and cute again or you’re looking at the ultimate paradox-link, capable of shattering physical law and turning the whole galaxy inside out. Also, this guy’s a genius. Sort of.