KIERAN SHEA: Push

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.

8/19/10

Push

Had quite the long conversation last night with a compatriot who I'd like to think is in similar creative dire straights as me. He held up a mirror and presented a truth about my limited efforts I knew already but was too lazy and afraid to admit. So much of this writing thing is isolation, it's good to get a push like that, facilitating the leap. Guess it's why I'm going to the cons this year, I need more of the push and more of the why.