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.

6/9/09

Strong Female Leads:

Almost Wednesday and I'm pulling on my fanboy boots. Snug black bastards, but they really offset my blinding white legs. Cowl completes the ensemble.

Goddamn it. Warren Ellis = bloody genius. Just when you think you've glimpsed it all, a quick combination and your eyes are again bleeding tears. Lately he's been pumping out the strong female leads. Mary Raven is just smokin', but take a sip of his steampunk character, Anna Mercury. Kind of a superhero Lara Croft crossed with The Shadow. Plenty of rooftop jumping, rayguns, and vamping badass. And quite the vocabulary. Ah, man, cue the old school LL Cool J...Bigger and Deffer. I need love.