Lincoln Crisler

Abominations, Shroud Publishing’s second anthology, is currently halfway up the horror anthologies bestseller list on Amazon. This book features, among other fine stories, Old Stooping Lugh, my tale of Irish and Italian mafioso caught in the crossfire of an angry Celtic god. You should definitely check it out. If I get a few requests for it, I’ll even pick up a few copies to sign and sell through the site!

… at Lincoln Crisler Online. I’ve come across some nifty stuff today. Stuff like:

• http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=9602 wherein the great Warren Ellis shares the applications he uses to update his website on the go.
• http://www.upauthors.com had a great post on speeding up the pace of your novel manuscript. I guess it’s a good thing that I’m already doing most of these!
• http://coyotecon.com/transcripts/transcript-querying-and-synopses/ wherein author Anna Kashina shares tips on queries and synopses via a chat transcript.

Find any information of value to fans of my work lately? Share it in the comments. Ads for penis enlargement or your Google Ad Machine will result in me sending the boogeyman and an enraged Celtic deity to your mom’s house.

I couldn’t pass up the chance to do a few more book signings on the way to my duty assignment in Georgia. This time, I’ll be hitting up Wylie, Texas and Ridgland, Mississippi after kicking things off with a farewell signing in El Paso (where I’ll be joined, once again, by Tim Marquitz). I’ll be shooting another documentary too, for your viewing pleasure. I tried hard for a date or two in Georgia, but those fell through. Expect dates in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida before the end of the year, however.

If you missed seeing me in April and can’t make it to my June dates, you can order a personalized signed book directly from myself, via the links to the right. It’ll actually cost the same or less than buying it at the store (shipping included) and will be cheaper than any of the online markets!

June Signing Dates and Times:

June 2, 2010
6-8PM
Barnes & Noble
705 Sunland Park El Paso, TX
915-781-5353
w/ Tim Marquitz

June 4, 2010
11AM-1PM
Eerie Books
204 N. Ballard St.
Wylie, TX
972-442-9393

June 5, 2010
11AM-1PM
Barnes & Noble
1000 Highland Colony Pkwy
Ridgeland, MS
601-605-4028

I’m Lincoln Crisler. I write stories; enough to fill two collections, to date. Lately, I’ve been signing a lot of copies of those books; I’ll have appeared in at least six states by the end of the year. I have a novel in progress, a comic book series that I work on here and there, and a novella under consideration by a couple of publishers. If you enjoy Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Terry Brooks or David Eddings, you might like me. I grew up reading those guys, and they inspired me, though my best work isn’t half as good as those guys’ worst. When I’m not performing author-related functions I work as a Live-Action GI Joe Roleplayer (that is, United States Army Noncommissioned Officer), husband and father of three. If you figure out how I manage to get anything done, please let me know!

You’ve stumbled across my website, as I’m sure you’re aware. I hope you stay awhile. I review books, rant about social issues and impart a bit of knowledge here and there, speculative-fiction related and otherwise. Lots of people have found my site after Googling the word ‘Fuck’ (as in “America, Fuck Yeah!” the day after President Obama’s election) or when searching for information on Leonard Nimoy’s photography (as in, Mister Spock’s collection of artistic BBW nudes). I daresay I have diverse tastes, and if you do as well, I might be worth a closer look to you.

Off to the right you can subscribe to my newsletter, read excerpts and reviews of my books, and connect with me on various social networking sites. You can also meet a few of my friends. Feel free to let me know what you think of my books, turn me on to your favorite indie artist, or tell me what else you’d like to see here.

One of my Facebook friends turned me onto this and since, as is readily evident, I could really use some good blog fodder, I decided to chime in. In a nutshell, Neil Gaiman was paid forty thousand dollars, from a fund that can’t be legally spent on anything else and which would go away at the end of the month, to speak at a library. Some people don’t like it.

I understand some of the arguments; that the money could be better spent on librarian salaries and that forty thousand dollars is an awful lot of money. I’m down with that. But pissing on Neil Gaiman because of it doesn’t make any sense. Neil didn’t draft the legislation that created the Legacy Fund that paid for his appearance, which means he’s not responsible for the money not rolling over into the next month and is not responsible for what happens to the money if it’s not spent on author appearances and goes back into the state coffers. Those issues need to be taken up with the legislature, not Neil.

Nor did Neil put a gun to anyone’s head and demand to speak at the library. The library wanted him. He states on his website that his fees are prohibitively expensive in order to limit the number of engagements he’s hired for. You know, so he has time to write. He also regularly offers special rates to libraries; this one offered him 40K because it was about to go away and it couldn’t be used for anything else, by law.  I also feel compelled to point out two other things: first, that he donated the fee to a couple of charities and second, that forty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions upon millions of dollars paid to people whose talents are limited to whacking a ball around or pretending that they just got smashed over the head with a ladder.