1997 Little John Thomas & His Mango Patch – eponymous demo (o.o.p.)
1998 Bursting Forth from the Cow
2000 Rara Avis
2001 Not For Sale
2001 Little John Thomas Comes of Age
2002 Amadeus Ex Machina
2003 The Regular
2004 She Walks In Beauty
2006 Anonymous
2007 Elementarianism
2009 Antimatter
2010 Haunting Gilgamesh
2011 Acrostics
2011 Red Shift
2012 Physics
2015 River
Now there’s one less excuse for you to not buy my e-book.
The new issue of Fogged Clarity just came out, and it features a short story of mine called “The Boy Who Cried Wolves.”
This issue also features an interview with author Benjamin Percy, fiction by Harvey Havel, and a bunch of other multimedia coolness. This is one of the nicest looking literary/arts magaizines on the web, IMO, so please check it out.
Also, check out the highly pretentious “Statement of Intent” that I submitted to them along with the story (one of their requirements for submission).
One of the things I’ve been interested in exploring with my fiction is the way that a new story can be affected by a an old one that is already deeply imbedded in our consciousness. In this case, only the title is a play on words from a traditional fable, and the rest of the idea flowed from the slight change in the wording. But because of that small wordplay, the reader’s experience is colored through the association with the traditional story even though the two actual stories are actually quite different.
[repost from There Will Be Blog]
As a semifinalist in the L Magazine’s “Literary Upstart” contest, I was asked to read last night at the Slipper Room. There was a sizeable and enthusiastic audience and three other semifinalists reading. At the end, the four of us were critiqued by a panel of judges, American Idol style, and one reader moved on to the finals. That one reader was not me.
I wish I could tell you the names of the other readers or of the judges, but I don’t have that information easily accessible at the moment. Maybe I’ll update later to include that. In any case, the judges’ comments were mostly superficial, and they clearly had not understood one of the major points about my story–so I really couldn’t take the whole thing very seriously. So here for your enjoyment, is my performance from last night, which one of the judges said reminded him of a”city council meeting.”
Apparently I am a semi-finalist in the L Magazine’s “Upstart Writers” contest, as to pave the way to the finals, I’ll be participating in a reading next Thursday (April 16) at Luna Lounge.
The event starts at 7 pm.
My publisher has redesigned her web site. The new look is sleeker and definitely more inviting. I was never too thrilled with the previous design. This is much easier on the eyes.
You can view my author page and leave comments here. Please do. That would be fun.
Still no word on that mysterious lawsuit though. Hopefully we will know something more about that soon.
Poet Zachary C. Bush started an online literary magazine earlier this year, Kora Journal. The focus is primarily on quality experimental poetry, prose poetry, and flash fiction. The second issue, which went online today, features my newest story, “The Year of Myself.” This issue also has new work from JA Tyler, Eric Beeny, Louis E. Bourgeois, and Howie Good–all of whom are excellent writers. Also, in case you missed it in an earlier post, you can see a video of me reading an early draft of “The Year of Myself” here.
Poet Zachary C. Bush started an online literary magazine earlier this year, Kora Journal. The focus is primarily on quality experimental poetry, prose poetry, and flash fiction.
The second issue, which went online today, features my newest story, “The Year of Myself.” This issue also has new work from JA Tyler, Eric Beeny, Louis E. Bourgeois, and Howie Good–all of whom are excellent writers.
Also, in case you missed it in an earlier post, you can see a video of me reading an early draft of “The Year of Myself” here.
Ok, so I wrote a new song the other day. None of these are it. I hope to record a demo of it this week. But while looking through my files, I came across three old demos of songs that I never did with any band or released on any solo album. Previously unreleased Hornbuck-alia!
This first one has lyrics by my old songwriting partner George Mostoller. He often sends me lyrics, and sometimes I set them to music. He also wrote the songs “Subway” and “Lip-Smackin’ Woman,” which I sometimes perform.
“Another Time” — recorded 12/2/2004.
\”Another Time\” by M. David Hornbuckle
The next two are from a revue that Marie and I planned to write in 2002 called “Domination: the Musical.” I think these are the only two we got around to writing, and I’m pretty sure Marie wrote the lyrics for both of these.
“It’s Nice” and “Why Do I Do What I Do?” — recorded August 2002.
\”It\’s Nice\” from Domination: the Musical
\”Why Do I Do I Do What I Do?\” from Domination: the Musical
See here, here, here, and here for background.
It’s been over a month since my last post on this topic, and several people have asked me if there are any updates. The short answer is: no.
Cantara did send a message out to her mailing list yesterday with links to my blog posts and her own summary of the situation so far, but the upshot is that she STILL doesn’t have control of her bank accounts and STILL doesn’t even know what John Gill is suing her about. That all seems odd because I would think that the lawsuit should be available as a public record, but I can only take her at her word on that.
Cantara does have a lawyer working on the case, but no concrete results to speak of yet.
UPDATE: This just in from Cantara:
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Dear Comrade-in-Letters –A small step, but a step nonetheless.
Our lawyer advised Mr. Gill’s attorney of the fact that Michael and I have been living in California since 2007 and she’s requested a copy of our lease to back this up – not a problem. (To show why we didn’t receive the Summons and Complaint at our old residence in Woodside last year.)
She was also informed that a copy of the Summons and Complaint was TAPED to the door of our mailing address at 204 E 11th Street in the East Village. Those of you who live in NYC might picture that and understand why we never received it, either.
Her letters to WAMU on our behalf have been redirected to another WAMU address. Copies of her letters going to Gill’s attorney are also being sent to this WAMU address… So it looks like we’re starting a case file there as well. Hope it doesn’t get too thick.
Once the entire batch of affidavits, document copies, etc, is complete, it’ll be sent to Gill’s lawyer, the court, and WAMU.
And AFTER THAT – we’ll probably still have to answer the original complaint. Will keep you posted.
– Cantara
M. David Hornbuckle 