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Mykle Hansen discusses writing, publishing and arson with the charming Lori Hettler over at The Next Best Book Blog.  Check it out!

Richard Nicol wrote a glowing review of RAMPAGING FUCKERS OF EVERYTHING ON THE CRAZY SHITTING PLANET OF THE VOMIT ATMOSPHERE in the latest edition of The Dream People.

… Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere will change everything you thought you knew about the subject. Another prolific Bizarro author, Mykle Hansen bestows his imposing and insightful themes underneath brilliantly crafted, over-the-top satire …

The Dream People is the longest-running Bizarro-friendly journal we know of, and it’s free online.  New fiction, poetry, and an incisive review of District 9.  Check it out if you haven’t already.

WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG WITH AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE FAMOUS AUTHOR:

Hi,

My publisher, Eraserhead Press, is awesome in so many ways that I could write a whole book about how awesome they are and ask them to publish it.  (Although they might decline to publish it, because who really wants to read a whole book about that?  But then again, it would have lots of unicorn battles …)

But for instance: FREE BOOKS. Thanks to Jeff Burk at Eraserhead, from now until Thanksgiving you can use download free PDFs of several fine titles … including but not limited to THE BIZARRO STARTER KITS.

Now, I’m often asked what Bizarro is all about, and for all my loving it and knowing it and being it I sometimes struggle to explain it in straight-man terms.  But really if you want the scoop you need to read one or both of these collections. My own novella, MONSTER COCKS, appears in the Blue starter kit, and one of my favorite absurd stories of all time, THE GREATEST FUCKING MOMENT IN SPORTS by Kevin L. Donihe, appears in the orange one.

For those reasons alone, you ought to avail yourself of this limited-time gift opportunity, and download these and other fine Eraserhead books.  Then, after you’ve enjoyed those fine works of bizarro literature, you can investigate the works of two dozen other authors working in the genre.  Love them?  Awesome!  Hate them?  No problem — that’s the freedom that only free stuff can give you.  All you have to do is download.

Do it now; do it here.  Free is a very good price!

-mykle-

News flash: Rampaging Fuckers of Everything On The Crazy Shitting Planet Of The Vomit Atmosphere has just been awarded the Wonderland Book Award for best story collection published in 2008!  The above photgraph doesn’t really do justice to the splendor of the trophy, or the depth of Mr. Hansen’s gratitude.  (However, it does catch the nefarious Mr. Andersen Prunty red-handed in the trophy-snatching act.  Bad author!  No snack for you!)

“The Wonderland Book Award is what exactly?” you ask.  Why, it’s a handsomely engraved crystalline love sandwich, awarded each year at BizarroCon — the annual gathering of our particular subculture — by a vote of writers, editors and publishers across the bizarro genre.  All of us here at Me were extremely startled and flattered that our book was chosen over this year’s strong field of nominees.

Five books are nominated for each of the two Wonderland awards each year.  In fact, Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! was nominated for best novel, but that final honor was bestowed upon Mr. Kevin Donihe for his novel House Of Houses.  Thank goodness!  Winning both awards would have been trés awkward, and might even have triggered a knife fight with the fiendish, unstable Mr. Prunty.

Since his victory, Mr. Hansen has often been seen lovingly polishing his Wonderland Book Award with a pungent ammonia-based cleanser and a soft chamois.  He carries it with him wherever he goes, but plans eventually to mount the award on the ceiling above his bed, in a hand-tooled solid gold frame encrusted with a bank of internet-enabled strobe lights that automatically flash each time a copy of the book is sold by Amazon.com .

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