When Jodi Cleghorn first invited me to write for the Chinese Whisperings project, I immediately said yes. Then I spent the interval before the actual writing in a state of pre-show jitters, wondering if I could create a story worthy of inclusion. Fortunately, the contract had the ritual flogging stricken from it and my editor, [...]
Archive for July, 2010
This was my second stint with Chinese Whisperings, and I was honored to be asked back. This experience was very different from the first. Which isn’t to say that either was better. This time around there were more writers involved in the project—more than double, in point of fact—and I felt both more and less [...]
A little while before The Red Book was released last year, Jodi Cleghorn and I befriended each other on Twitter. She told me about the project that she and Paul Anderson were spearheading and it caught my interest right from the get-go. How great would that be? I thought, to be involved in such a [...]
Like most things these days I discovered Chinese Whisperings via twitter. Following CW editor Jodi Cleghorn’s tweets last year led me to the then very red CW website. This was around this time last year, back when Jodi, Paul and the ten writers of The Red Book were busy promoting eMergent Publishing’s first collection of [...]
As an author returning from writing in “The Red Book”, I was already privy to Editor’s Jodi and Paul’s unique way of approaching things. For them, there isn’t really a wrong way to do something (unless it’s sentence structure) there is merely a different way. With “The Red Book” they were playing with this interconnected [...]
We have another bumper offering this week – 12 stories from 11 writers. Contributing fiction small and large this week are Carrie Clevenger, Laura Eno, Tony Noland, Lily Mulholland, Benjamin Solah, J.M. Strother, Jason Coggins, Icy Sedgwick, Paul Servini, Annie Evett and Dan Powell. “The Downside of 24-Hour Stores” by Carrie Clevenger I’d be crazy [...]
Chinese Whisperings invites you to kick back with your favourite beverage and Take Five with J.M. Strother.
The Red Book, Audio Trailer
