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Persona Cracked: Brian Asman

Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Brian Asman, is a writer, actor, director, and producer whose stories often blur the line between horror and humor. He is author of five novels, including the self-published sensation, Man, Fuck This House, recently acquired by Blackstone and optioned for TV/film. His latest…

Persona Cracked: Lucy Leitner

Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Lucy Leitner, is author of three novels and writer of transgressive fiction whose work contains strong elements of horror and satire. Her latest book, Bad Vibrations, is set for release October 19th and has the subtitle: Yoga, Sex, Blood. Lucy works in advertising and lives in…

Music maker becomes social shaker

Review: Song of Kitaba Mark Everglade, 252 pages Revolutions are messy. They are not, as often depicted in fiction, neatly conceived tales with pre-ordained plots that follow an assured path to victory. In real life, revolutions are conceived in struggle, their course erratic, with failure often the closest ally and end result. My favorite aspect of Song of Kitaba, marketed as a ‘hopepunk’…

Love is a Cosmic Telephone Booth

Review: We Can Never Go Back Daron Kappauff, 30 pages I don’t read much horror. I commute on the train to and from downtown L.A., so I already know about hell and how dark, scary, and violent the world can be. If I need to side-step troubled individuals talking to themselves on the subway, just to pay my bills, why should I seek out fictional stories involving characters possessed by demons…

Persona Cracked: Mark Everglade

Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Mark Everglade, is the pen name of an author of three science-fiction novels, Hemispheres, Song of Kitaba, and the forthcoming, Inertia, as well as several short stories. While Everglade’s work and literary interests resound solidly within the sub-genre of cyberpunk, his activist…

Persona Cracked: Jon Bassoff

Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Jon Bassoff, is author of nine novels. He was born in New York City in 1974 and lives in Longmont, Colorado where he teaches high school English. Jon’s work is described on his web site as ‘gothic-noir.’ His latest tale of existential torment, Beneath Cruel Waters, a mystery…