David James Keaton’s fiction has appeared in Noir At The Bar, Beat To A Pulp, Needle, Pulp Modern, The Fiddleback, Pulp Pusher, Yellow Mama, Pank, Burnt Bridge, Dirty Noir, Pure Slush, Shotgun Honey, Dark Sky, and Thuglit, among others, as well as in horror anthologies such as Deadcore, The Death Panel, and Dark Highlands. Recently, he won a Best Short Story on the Web Spinetingler Award for his roulette scam in Crime Factory, and his coach-killing contribution to Plots With Guns #10 was named a Notable Story of 2010 by storySouth’s Million Writer’s Award. David received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is also the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flywheel Magazine, now featuring more wheels than flies, although he is working to remedy this. He’s scribbled enough pages for nine books and is constantly rewriting three screenplays; a prison movie, a thriller, and a western, simultaneously adapting them into novels. He realizes this method is probably backwards. He has just completed his first novel for which he is seeking representation and can be contacted at davidjameskeaton[at]gmail[dot]com.
p.s. Zombie backlash be damned, he also has a zombie love-story fiasco called Zee Bee & Bee (a.k.a. Propeller Hats for the Dead), a novella which was recently expanded for Kindles and Nooks and other newfangled, high-tech reading devices, including paper and glue (not that books haven’t always been quite fangled). It was released on January 1st, 2012, and can be found in paperback and e-book forms at Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Goodreads. Or just follow the screams. Also available in special one-on-one pillowtalk “audiobook” version (not recommended). He is also the author of something called FISH BITES COP! Stories To Bash Authorities, coming soon from Comet Press.
If you’re feeling eager, the book is now available for pre-order…here. Oops. I was wrong. It’s already here.
Just seeing what I’ve gotta read to keep up with the ol’ resolutions.
We have the same mommy and daddy.
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Some really wondrous work on behalf of the owner of this web site, dead.
Hi recently read your story “Change Machine” on Floodwall Literary Magazine and I appreciated how you indirectly alluded to a specific fight between two characters by explaining it through argumentative habits, “…grabbed her shoe that had slipped off, crashed out the door” . It has since helped me want to write, and I thank you for that..
http://theroseandsunsetcafe.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/four-fifteen-2/
Hi-
Leslie from Zombie Research Society here.
Wanted to give you a heads up that we just launched a campaign to get
George Romero a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
As you know Romero invented the modern zombie with his 1968 horror classic
Night of the Living, launching a global phenomenon that continues to
infect pop culture more than 40 years later.
Stars cost $30,000 paid to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, so we’re
doing a fundraising campaign to let fans give back to the man that has
given us all so much.
Here is the link, and as you can see we’ve got Simon Pegg, Scott Ian of
Anthrax, Penn & Teller, and other celebs behind it:
http://igg.me/p/228682
The more eyeballs we can get on the attached link the better chance we
have of reaching (and hopefully beating) our goal.
Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated.
Go Romero!
Leslie