KIERAN SHEA: We've always been out of our minds....

BIO

KIERAN SHEA’s fiction has appeared in dozens of venues including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Dogmatika, Word Riot, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir ...as well as in some beefy-looking anthologies most of which will make you question the tether of his shiny, red balloon. To his self-deprecating astonishment he's also been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice without sending the judges so much as a thank you note. He co-edited the satiric transgressive fiction collection D*CKED: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY DICK CHENEY and his debut novel KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY is out now from Titan Books. Kieran divides his time between 38°58′22.6″N- 76°30′4.17″W and 39.2775° N, 74.5750° W.

5/20/09

We've always been out of our minds....

Thinking of taking a Memorial Day pit stop from all the mystery, crime, and hardboiled fiction I've been ingesting as of late. Saw this review in The New York Times and this unauthorized biography might be the ticket. Liking Tom Waits has always been a measuring stick for me when meeting new people, and if you don't dig the man, well....
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Speaking of being out of our minds, will someone please tell The Rap Sheet that Anthony Neil Smith's virtual motorcycle rally is to pump up the volume about HOGDOGGIN' not "HOTDOGGIN'"...especially since the Saturday Boy is soon to be on deck and I hear Ray Banks hates Frankie and Annette so much it gives him hives. Frank Bill hates that shit too. 'Cept if Frank had a time machine he wouldn't kick Annette out of bed. Least that's what I heard...